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Energy Review update 2

Last edited 3 April 2006 at 12:00am
Publication date: 
3 April, 2006

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Nuclear waste trains: terror targets on wheels

Posted by bex — 29 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A nuclear waste train at Camden Road 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 8,000 people, according to a new report released this week.

Spent nuclear fuel is routinely transported by train from nine nuclear power stations around the country to the Sellafield storage facility 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.

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Risks of transporting of irradiated fuel and nuclear materials in the UK

Last edited 28 March 2006 at 9:00am
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28 March, 2006

Prepared by Large & Associates, Nuclear Consultants

Summary

This review examines the hazards, risk and potential consequences associated with the transport movements of irradiated (spent) nuclear fuel in the United Kingdom. It identifies potential accidents and malevolent acts that could severely damage a spent fuel transportation flask, thereby enabling the release of radioactivity, in the form of particles and aerosols, and the corresponding health risk imposed on unprotected members of public.

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Switching power

Last edited 23 March 2006 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
22 March, 2006

Nuclear power: dirty, costly, dangerous. Decentralised and renewable energy: a clean, safe and efficient solution to meet our energy needs.

Summary

The government's 2006 review into the future of the UK's energy policy was used by Blair to give the go-ahead for a whole new generation of nuclear power stations.

Nuclear power will cost the Earth, will not stop climate change, produces deadly waste and is a target for terrorists.

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Energy Review update 1

Last edited 16 March 2006 at 3:15pm
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16 March, 2006

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Mayor Rejects Nuclear London

Last edited 16 March 2006 at 9:00am
16 March, 2006

This Thursday (16th March) Ken Livingstone will criticise proposals for building new nuclear power stations across the UK as he outlines his vision for a low carbon London at the Greenpeace Business Lecture.

Addressing business leaders at the Greenpeace lecture the Mayor will launch a new report, Powering London into the 21st century. The report details how decentralising London's energy would be far more efficient in cutting the city's CO2 emissions, and the demand for imported gas as opposed to pursuing a centralised nuclear power focused national energy policy (1).

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Powering London into the 21st Century

Last edited 16 March 2006 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
16 March, 2006

This report is a response to the government's Energy Review. It does not seek to provide all the answers to the many questions that this review poses, but it does demonstrate that there is at least one viable set of options for achieving the government's key goals of CO2 emission reductions, a secure energy supply, economic growth, and alleviation of fuel poverty - without the need for a new generation of nuclear power stations.

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Decentralising UK Energy

Last edited 7 March 2006 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
7 March, 2007

Cleaner, Cheaper, More Secure Energy for the 21st Century

Summary
The new Greenpeace commissioned report, Decentralising UK Energy, demolishes the myth that nuclear power is the best or only option in tackling climate change and shows that a real, more effective, more viable choice is available. Not only is decentralised energy cleaner and cheaper than nuclear power - it's also more secure; we don't need nuclear power.

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Nuclear power: boom or bust?

Posted by bex — 7 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A giant KAPOW is projected onto the dome at Sizewell

Over the past fortnight an enormous projection reading "KAPOW!" has materialised on several of the UK's nuclear power stations, highlighting the risk of terrorist attack to nuclear sites.

Greenpeace volunteers drove up to the perimeter fences of Dungeness, Sizewell, Wylfa, Oldbury, Heysham and Torness nuclear power stations and projected the cartoon-style image onto the walls.

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Cleaner, cheaper, more secure - a new report reveals the real answer to Britain's energy needs

Posted by bex — 7 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A residential area powered by combined heat and power (decentralised energy)

As the government's Energy Review veers ever closer to the conclusion that nuclear power is the only answer to climate change, a new report by non-profit research agency the World Alliance for Decentralised Energy (WADE) demolishes this myth.

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