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Blair goes nuclear, ignores climate solutions

For the same investment, wind generates 5 times the jobs and 2.3 times the power as a nuclear reactor. Enlarge Image

Spain says "Adios" to nuclear power

The nuclear industry recently launched a multi-million dollar campaign to try and revive the most expensive, dangerous, and polluting way to boil water ever invented. Spain is having none of it. The nation's president has confirmed that the country's 8 operating plants will be phased out in favour of clean, renewable energy.

Radionucleotides might feature in future Champagne vintages as dumpsite reports leaks. Enlarge Image

Radioactive Champagne in our future?

Ahhh, a fine Champagne. A delicate nose. Full body. Great colour. And that indescribable sensation when you raise your glass of having your tongue tickled by .... TRITIUM???

Sisters Irina and Elena live in an area of Belarus contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Both have had brain tumours removed and now have problems with their thyroid gland. Enlarge Image

Nuclear nightmares

Elena was playing outside 20 years ago. Not far away the Chernobyl reactor was melting down. Since then both her and her sister have had brain cancer. Facts and figures, scientists and politicians, can't tell you the terrible consquences of nuclear power gone wrong. Only the victims can.

In the cancer ward of a Kiev hospital in the Ukraine, 19-year-old Elena is being treated for her second case of thyroid cancer in just 3 years Enlarge Image

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.

Chernobyl certificate No 000358

Being a victim of the Chernobyl disaster means more than just a number. Often it's a lifetime of suffering due to a dirty, dangerous industry still being promoted with your tax money.

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