nuclear power, Tag

• Lobby consists of 90 academics, politicians and experts• Claim appropriate information has not been made availablePressure on the government to organise an independent inquiry into a new generation of nuclear power...

Last month, inspectors found dangerous chemicals in the groundwater near the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor. The situation demonstrates that from the mining of uranium ore to the storage of radioactive waste, nuclear reactors...

• Ex-industry boss sheds light on Sellafield panic• Greenpeace calls for fresh review of atomic industry The autobiography of a former director of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) is likely to reignite fears about the safety...

Monbiot has got it wrong: feed-in tariffs are not a waste of money. They work – just look at the German renewables industryThank goodness Jeremy Leggett stepped in to correct some of the inaccuracies in George Monbiot's...

Vermont may soon become the first state in America to shut down a nuclear reactor. During a meeting tomorrow, the state senate is likely to deny a request to extend the life of the 38-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor....

Vermont would be the first state to close a nuclear reactor after 38-year-old Yankee's history of leaking cancer-causing tritiumBarack Obama's new dream of a nuclear renaissance faces a major reality check tomorrow when the...

Interesting talk about newer nuclear tech, that solves some (but not all) of the problems with nuclear power as it is today. I am still firmly against nuclear power, but I am starting to consider that there might be some...

President Obama’s recent announcement that the U.S. government will offer $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first new nuclear plant in the country in 30 years upset clean energy advocates for a number of...

In an effort to spur the United States towards a new age of nuclear power, President Obama announced yesterday that Southern Company would receive $8 billion in federal loan guarantees to construct two new reactors in Georgia...

US president announces $8.3bn in loan guarantees for construction of first nuclear reactors in almost 30 years

Barack Obama's promise to fund new nuclear power plants is a major financial gamble – and US taxpayers will foot the billIn his first state of the union address last month, Barack Obama declared that creating new clean...

US president announces $8.3bn in loan guarantees for construction of first nuclear reactors in almost 30 yearsBarack Obama pressed the start button on the first new construction of nuclear reactors in a generation today,...

It is now clear to all that there is a major hole in the UK's defence equipment budget (Top heavy: MoD plans cuts in senior army and civilian posts, 4 February)...

Regulator says free market approach will leave UK short of energy supplies by 2015Gas and electricity could be sold to consumers via a state-controlled body under radical reforms, proposed by the regulator Ofgem, which acknowledge...

Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, says wind-power ambitions may not be met and that green energy programmes should be scaled downBritain's offshore wind revolution, launched with great fanfare by Gordon Brown last month,...