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Greenpeace calls for fresh monitoring of region where nuclear disaster occurred

Boris Johnson’s gung-ho claims may be wide of the mark, but scientists pursuing the holy grail of energy generation are taking giant steps

Whatever the result, the communities on SA’s Eyre peninsula are split over the issue – and will be for some time

Let’s go for an expansive renewable energy system, backed up with energy efficiency and energy storage, says David Blackburn. Plus Mike Ellwood on the integral fast reactor, and John Barstow on the case for keeping coal...

It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West MP. It is surely time to bury the Micawber principle, says Professor Neil HyattAs we mark the 74th anniversary...

Could this be the catalyst for the Coalition of 2019 to reconnect itself with the position it adopted in 2007 for sound reasons?

Could this be the catalyst for the Coalition of 2019 to reconnect itself with the position it adopted in 2007 for sound reasons?

Energy department says labeling some waste as low-level at sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina will save $40bn

Eight years after the disaster, not a single location will take the millions of cubic metres of radioactive soil that remain

Nuclear waste is quickly becoming one of the world's biggest problems. Earth's growing stockpile of radioactive waste is troublesome, because these chemicals remain in their radioactive state for several millennia — and...

Nuclear waste is quickly becoming one of the world's biggest problems. Earth's growing stockpile of radioactive waste is troublesome, because these chemicals remain in their radioactive state for several millennia — and...

The UK has a problem and it isn’t going to go away anytime soon. But what to do about it? This week Geoff Marsh explores two options, including plans to bury the UK’s nuclear waste deep underground

Readers respond to news that Hitachi has pulled out of the proposed Wylva nuclear power plant in AngleseyThe pulling out of Hitachi from the proposed Wylva nuclear power plant is a good thing for energy policy – not a serious...

When uranium was scarce, reprocessing was all the rage. Two decades on, the Cumbrian plant, though still a major source of jobs, has outlived its missionDeep in the heart of Sellafield, Britain’s biggest nuclear waste site,...

With demand for electricity set to rocket, the UK cannot rely on renewables alone