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Nuclear costs soaring? Save money by saving the climate

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 5 December, 2012 18 comments

Surprise, surprise: the cost of building a new nuclear reactor at Flamanville in France has more than doubled to €8.5 billion from 3.3 billion ! But this is not really a surprise, is it? It is simply further evidence that the costs...

Japanese and French companies to build Turkey’s nuclear reactors: What could go wrong?

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 4 May, 2013 1 comment

Look at what we have here: A $22 billion dollar deal for a Japanese-French consortium to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant. What could possibly go wrong? Let’s see, shall we? The French company contracted to help...

Greenpeace once again exposes security failures at French nuclear reactors

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 2 May, 2012 19 comments

(© Lagazeta / Greenpeace) Early this morning, a Greenpeace activist flew a paraglider through forbidden airspace over the Le Bugey nuclear power plant, between Lyon and Geneva, and dropped a smoke device on the reactor containment...

The future of nuke power: Greenpeace restarts the debate

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 7 December, 2011 12 comments

The debate on the future nuclear power is back on in earnest in France, and many other countries. That’s thanks to our activists paying surprise visits to two French nuclear power plants this week . The news that they could so easily...

Don’t Hack The Hippies Take 2: Greenpeace asks French prosecutors to investigate...

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 9 January, 2012 7 comments

With another nuclear company facing accusations of spying on Greenpeace, we’ve got to ask the nuclear industry a question: Dude, you’re 60 years old – isn’t it time you grew up? In early January 2012 Greenpeace filed a criminal...

The future of nuclear power takes another hit

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 16 December, 2011 8 comments

In 2009, multinational financial services corporation Citigroup called nuclear power – with its skyrocketing costs, disastrous economics and dependence on public bailouts – a “corporate killer” . Now, in 2011, are we witnessing the...

Security breaches, radiation leaks, disasters; Nothing worries the nuclear industry

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 5 December, 2011 10 comments

One of the many odd qualities of the nuclear industry is its seemingly boundless optimism: “everything’s going to be just fine, folks.” Apparently, there’s no need to worry about terrorists attacking nuclear reactors. Which is why ...

Explosion at Marcoule: nuclear industry spin hits overdrive

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 14 September, 2011 12 comments

The first and most important thing to remember about Monday’s explosion at the Marcoule nuclear facility in southern France is that one man was tragically killed and four others were injured. Our condolences and thoughts are with...

Nuclear News: Fukushima cleanup to take decades, Kuwait dumps nuclear power,...

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 12 July, 2011 2 comments

So what’s been happening in the world of nuclear power recently? Despite much of the news media now ignoring what’s happening at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, work is still continuing to bring the reactors there under...

BREAKING NEWS: Finland’s under-construction OL3 reactor ‘without a proper design that...

Blog entry by Justin | 6 May, 2009 6 comments

Read that headline again. Take a deep breath… Due for completion in 2012 at the earliest, the so-called state of the art and third generation OL3 European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) being built at Olkiluoto, Finland has been under...

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