
The UK Government continues to subsidise the building and operating
of nuclear power plants despite the facts that: nuclear fission
is the most expensive and dangerous way of generating electricity;
the grade of uranium ore required by current nuclear power plants
is fast becoming too expensive to mine; the authorities appear unable
or uninterested in protecting industry workers and communities living
near plants or mines from the deadly uranium radiation released
by the processes; the toxic waste created by the process remains
dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years; every nuclear
plant is a potential nuclear disaster, whether because of human
error, a natural accident (like Fukushima), or a terrorist action.
The nuclear industry promises two safer alternatives, cold fusion
rather than hot fission and thorium-fuelled nuclear power rather
than uranium-fuelled nuclear power, but neither is ready - still
- to help bridge the gap between electricity generation principally
from dirty fossil fuels and electricity generation principally from
clean renewable sources, like solar, wind, hydro and tidal power.
Sample articles
Issues
Uranium-fuelled
nuclear power will not significantly reduce carbon emissions
Uranium-fuelled
nuclear power is a dead duck
Dwindling
high-grade uranium supply rules out nuclear future
Nuclear
plants ideal targets for terrorists
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News
Breast
cancer clusters in Burnham near Hinckley Point
Burnham-on-Sea
- radioactive mud kills babies
Leukaemia
- new evidence of Sellafield danger
Sellafield major
suspect of birth defects and cancer on Irish coast
Sellafield
cancer clusters cover up exposed
Sellafield
pigeons glow in the dark
Is Plymouth the new Sellafield?
Thames
Valley leukaemia clusters
Radioactive
roads and houses in Harwell
Wales
goes radioactive
Welsh
breast cancer - is nuclear fallout the real cause?
CSA refuses to publish
Scottish child leukaemia figures
- is there a nuclear connection?
The fallout from Fukushima
Hounslow and Hillingdon's evil
wind
England and Wales
waste incinerators that burn radioactive waste
Global
warming may drown nuclear power
Six
hot spots to avoid - radon may kill 19,000 a year
Some
smoke detectors radioactive
Euratom
- radioactive metals recycled into food cans
Uranium
mining contaminates mining communities
Infant mortality
rates fell when nuclear reactors closed down
Irradiated mail sickened US postal
workers
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