Nuclear News
Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a…
Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a…
…utilities, among them the operators of the country’s 17 nuclear reactors. Germany currently gets almost a quarter of its electricity from nuclear power. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/association-of-german-utility-companies-calls-for-abolishing-nuclear-power-by-2020/2011/04/08/AFfZF82C_story.html Cleaning up Japan’s radioactive water could…
…cause investors to pull away. Britain could join a wave of countries loosening their embrace of nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/29/japan-nuclear-clegg-energy-policy….
…makes it genuine alternative to crisis-hit nuclear industry http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/17/wind-cheaper-nuclear-eu-climate Nuclear Energy Isn’t Needed While we have all heard of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, the nuclear industry would have us…
…say nuclear is the best alternative. But nuclear energy is neither clean nor green. Each step in the nuclear chain poses hazards to the environment and human health. See http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/docs-talk/2011/01/a-few-good-reasons-why-we-should-abandon-nuclear-energy-for-good/….