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Prepared by Large & Associates, Nuclear Consultants

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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.

In this Energy Review update:

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Woking Borough Council is at the forefront of the decentralised energy revolution in the UK. By decentralising its energy, Woking Council has slashed its energy use by nearly half, and its CO₂ emissions by a massive 77 per cent since 1990.

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

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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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Building more nuclear power stations will dramatically increase the risk of a catastrophic terrorist attack, which could claim millions of lives. This shocking dossier of expert evidence shows how a terrorist strike, targetting dangerous radioactive waste held at the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, could kill over two million people.

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The nuclear industry is portraying new nuclear power stations as the solution to climate change and security of energy supply. In reality, nuclear power will fail to deliver significant CO₂ cuts, be hugely expensive, create a new target for terrorism, is unreliable and a finite source of energy.

Frequently asked questions about the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11). The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet every year at a COP. This year, Montreal hosts COP 11 but alongside this meeting will be the historic Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol (MOP), which will be the very first meeting of those who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol since it became legally binding this year.

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A quick guide to the 2005 climate change negotiations in Montreal, where the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins on 28 November.

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Dr Douglas Parr of Greenpeace shares his reflections on Nanojury UK, the first attempt to give ordinary members of the UK public a voice in relation to the development of this very wide-ranging technology.

Dr Parr argues that the implications of the findings of Nanojury reach far into not just science and innovation policy in UK, but also the political model of economic resource deployment which underpins the technology commercialisation process.

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This report focuses on the event at which jurors from the West Yorkshire Community Jury reported their preliminary recommendations for discussion by a range of groups representing a broad range of interests in the UK and beyond.