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Greenpeace's recommendations to the 2006 Energy Review

Posted by bex — 28 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Drax power station

Greenpeace has called on the UK government to recognise that our existing energy system is outdated, fragmented and inherently wasteful - and to start a wholesale regulatory and market reform to make decentralised energy the mainstay of the UK's energy system.

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Greenpeace's submission to the 2006 Energy Review

Last edited 26 April 2006 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
26 March, 2007

The Greenpeace response to the Department of Trade and Industry's Energy Review consultation document 'Our Energy Challenge' (January 2006)

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Chernobyl: "Never again"

Last edited 26 April 2006 at 8:00am
Pictures in an abandoned kindergarten in Prypyat, only a few miles from Chernobyl

Pictures in an abandoned kindergarten in Prypyat, only a few miles from Chernobyl

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Terrorist targets on wheels

Posted by bex — 24 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments
Nuclear waste train at Kensington Olympia station in London

Nuclear waste train at Kensington Olympia station in London

A terrorist attack on a train carrying waste nuclear materials across Britain could spread lethal radioactivity across an area of 100 sq kilometres, and result in the deaths of up to 8000 people.

Spent nuclear fuel is routinely transported by train from nine nuclear power stations around the country for reprocessing or storage at Sellafield in Cumbria. Typically these journeys take place once a week from each reactor - at the same time and on the same lines as regular passenger and freight trains.

Article tagged as: climate change, decentralised energy, nuclear power, nuclear transports, nuclear waste, terrorism

Energy Review update 3

Last edited 24 April 2006 at 12:00am
Publication date: 
24 April, 2006

In this issue:

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Interim Review: Leak of radioactive liquor in the feed clarification cell at BNG THORP Sellafield

Last edited 20 April 2006 at 8:00am
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20 April, 2006

Review of the management and technical aspects of the failure and its implications for the future of THORP

Summary

Published by nuclear engineers John Large & Associates, this review examines the failure of pipework in the feed clarification cell of the thermal oxide reprocessing plant (THORP) at Sellafield that resulted in closure of the plant in April 2005. Operation of THORP is contracted to the British Nuclear Group (BNG) and owned by the government agency the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

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The Chernobyl catastrophe - consequences on human health

Last edited 18 April 2006 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
18 April, 2006

Summary

In the past twenty years it has become clear, that nuclear energy conceals dangers, in some aspects, even greater than atomic weapons: the ejecta from this one reactor exceeded the radioactive contamination caused by the nuclear weapons used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by one hundred times.

It has become clear that one nuclear reactor can contaminate half of the Earth and that no longer, not in one single country, could citizens be assured that the state will have the forethought and wisdom to protect them from nuclear misfortunes.

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Fallout: the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

Posted by bex — 5 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Fallout: the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

Chernobyl fallout exhibition - Annya


A photographic exhibition to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster

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Nuclear waste transport incident could spread radioactivity over 100km

Last edited 4 April 2006 at 8:00am
4 April, 2006

A terrorist attack on a routine transport of nuclear waste in the UK could spread radiation over 100 kilometres, and cause over 8,000 deaths, according to an internationally renowned nuclear engineer.

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Greenpeace comment on nuclear decommissioning authority's strategy

Last edited 4 April 2006 at 8:00am
4 April, 2006

Responding to the release of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority strategy for cleaning up Britain's nuclear sites and news that the cost of dealing with waste is set to rise substantially - Jean McSorley, Greenpeace Nuclear campaigner, said:

"Every time the costs of cleaning up nuclear sites are looked at the cost for the taxpayer spirals. This time it looks like there's another £9 billion for taxpayers to swallow.

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