Nuclear power fact sheets

June 15, 2006

Joint Australian Environment Groups communique on the nuclear industry and climate change.

Nuclear waste - critical problem

July 20, 2005

The existing UK nuclear facilities will leave us a legacy of half a million tonnes of nuclear waste – and some of this will remain as a threat to human health and the environment for hundreds of thousands of years.

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Nuclear power is expensive

July 20, 2005

Nuclear power is fundamentally incompatible with the development of a clean energy future – with safe and effective ways to reduce carbon emissions.

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Nuclear power undermines clean energy

June 01, 2005

Climate change is caused by emissions of ‘greenhouse gases’, primarily carbon dioxide from burning oil, coal and gas.

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Nuclear: no solution to climate change

April 01, 2005

The new catch-cry of the nuclear industry is that nuclear energy is the answer to global climate change. Nuclear energy is toxic and dangerous. Far from being rehabilitated, the nuclear option is a convenient distraction from the problem of climate change and stalls real action to combat it.

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Australia unprepared for nuclear accidents at sea

January 01, 2002

An increase in nuclear shipments around the Australian coast has prompted an international report investigating the safety of nuclear shipments and Australia's ability to deal with a nuclear accident at sea.

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