Nuclear energy

By Justin And don’t get us started on ‘trusted’. French nuclear giant AREVA is upset by the six Greenpeace activists who boarded the transport ship Happy Ranger in the Fehmarn Belt strait between Denmark and Germany. The ship is taking massive steam generators to the construction site of...

The thing is, there’s actually quite a bit of disagreement on the matter. The study ‘Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America’ isn’t the only one to examine the issue.

‘FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Germany's nuclear power policy of keeping old reactors open longer to bridge the gap to greener energy may also leave the door open to eventually break a major electoral taboo -- new atomic power plants. Chancellor Angela Merkel's new centre-right govern...

Looks like the shockingly poor economics of nuclear energy may have killed two more two more reactor projects, this time in the US… Entergy Corp Chief Executive J. Wayne Leonard said on Tuesday that the company is unlikely to pursue...

So that’s France’s nuclear: out of action when it’s hot, out of action when it’s cold. To add insult to injury, parts of France may see power cuts because the French grid isn’t designed to accept large imports of electricity. To think France is regarded as the world leader when it c...

These are stories found wherever uranium mining takes place. The ruined lives, the contamination, the cover-ups, and the deception. And that’s before we even consider what happens to the waste produced by generating nuclear energy.

’As the push for nuclear energy grows, so are the murmurs about India's nuclear safety record. Some analysts say there could be cause for alarm, given the non-transparent nature of India's state-controlled nuclear energy sector - there is no way to estimate whether safety issues will...

First and foremost, it needs to be remembered that nuclear energy is a huge barrier to fighting climate change. It diverts vital time, money, energy and resources away from much cheaper, ready sooner, safer, cleaner and efficient renewable energy sources and energy efficiency program...

’PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - EDF is sending to Russia spent nuclear fuel that needs to be reprocessed, the French nuclear power producer said on Monday, denying a French press report that it was using Siberia to dump nuclear waste. The world's largest nuclear energy producer said that rad...

Nuclear energy is presented as the foremost solution for the nation’s lack of energy security, military security and overall national security. All this in a country where hundreds of millions of people do not have food security, water security, sanitation security, and other basic...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Iran owns 10 percent of French nuclear fuel plant ’PARIS (Reuters) - A French plant that produces a quarter of the world's enriched uranium is 10 percent owned by Iran, which has had...

We love pictures and photographs that portray nuclear energy as ‘green’. We have a small collection of which we’re very proud. This is one of our favourites - the nuclear symbol adorned with flowers and leaves. It’s supposed to give...

The movement against nuclear power is actually growing stronger (see the 50,000-strong demonstration in Berlin earlier this month), following the current crisis with radioactive waste and a recent series of accidents at aging German nuclear reactors.

’When German voters go to the polls on Sunday the fate of the country's nuclear power industry will be hanging in the balance. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is campaigning to reverse a decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2021 if her favoured centre-right coalition option ta...

In total, close to 890,000 m3 of radioactive waste had been produced by the end of 2004. Almost 40% of this amount is linked to reprocessing. This total does not account for some 12,000 m3 of waste from the reprocessing plant in Marcoule that was dumped into the sea in 1967 and 1969. Neither does...

On Wednesday evening, Vincent De Rivaz, Chief Executive of EDF Energy, was interviewed on the UK’s Sky News channel. It was the same day as the UK government announcing its latest nuclear power strategy. The interview is worth watching because...

The French nuclear industry isn’t only in trouble in Finland. A new report - Areva and EDF:Business prospects and risks in nuclear energy - by Steve Thomas, Professor of Energy Policy at London’s Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), shows Areva and France’s othe...

Most of us like to think of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) as a force for good, led by calm and reassuring figures such as Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, touring the world fighting nuclear proliferation. That’s part of...

This complexity means that reactors can be temperamental beasts. The smallest of faults can stop electricity generation or prevent reactors running at full power. The history of nuclear energy is littered with examples and the every day news shows that things are not getting better.

’The visits that French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congo-Brazzaville and Niger at the end of March this year did not have great humanitarian purposes. Sarkozy gave speeches on the role of peace and democracy for development in Africa, bu...

In a lecture at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., this week, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore laid out the reasons he says nuclear energy should be considered an alternative to fossil fuels. He also cautioned the audience not to confuse the ... all 22 news articles

Patrick Moore, a pro-nuclear energy environmentalist, discusses the benefits of harnessing nuclear energy at Northwestern University. by Alina Dainand Juliana Hertel Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, one-time anti-nuclear activist who is now a ... all 6 news articles

 IL Fifteen years later, Moore split from the environmental organization when he began studying nuclear energy more in-depth. The activist spoke Monday night at the McCormick Tribune Center about America's need to increase its use of nuclear power. ...

We are getting desperate, almost to the point to ask help of the miraculous worker; nuclear energy. It has given superpowers to the French president Sarkozy The Salesman; and Jukka Laaksonen the head of Finnish nuclear safety authority, STUK. It had made the seriously ill walk and release...

Environmental groups were equally gratified, since they have long seen Yucca Mountain as a choke point for asphyxiating nuclear energy. Greenpeace immediately called for an end to new construction of nuclear power plants, and for all existing reactors ... all 27 news articles

“Greenpeace is blocking the Pickering reactor station because Nuclear Energy Minister George Smitherman is blocking green energy in Ontario,� said Greenpeace energy campaigner Shawn-Patrick Stensil. “The spin around Smitherman’s proposed Green Energy Act is cynical gr...