Who needs coal? Who needs nuclear?
…burning-up the world by depending on coal, or should it risk radiating it with nuclear power? Of course this “dilemma” confronts many other industrialised and “lesser developing” states too. But…
Mining companies hold back progress on climate change
The world’s biggest steel producer, ArcelorMittal, and global miner, BHP Billiton, are among companies “block[ing] progress on climate legislation”, while they “ensure that fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies continue to…
Nuclear plans threaten UK's part in renewables revolution, expert warns
The UK’s “eccentric” determination to build new nuclear power means it is not fit to take part in the “third industrial revolution” of switching to clean renewable energy, according to…
Nuclear news
…offer. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72103?oid=137387&sn=Detail&pid=92730. Go-ahead for UK nuclear programme The Fukushima disaster provides no reason to restrict UK nuclear reactors or stop building new ones, the official nuclear regulator has concluded….
BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion
…per year (in the form of spent nuclear fuel). That amount of spent fuel contains 28.5 tonnes of plutonium – enough for 2,850 nuclear weapons each year. BHP Billiton sells…