A comprehensive assessment of the hazards of operational reactors, new ‘evolutionary’ designs and future reactor concepts and the risks associated with the management of spent nuclear fuel, this report describes the characteristics and inherent flaws of the main reactor designs in operation today and assesses the risks associated with new designs, ‘ageing’ operational reactors, the terrorist threat to nuclear power and climate change impacts – such as flooding- on nuclear.
Num. pages: 128
Last Wednesday, on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, I walked to the gates at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a heavy heart. Heavy because as…
It was August 9, 2016, the 71st anniversary of the United States’ nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Once again, I had traveled 50 miles to my local nuclear weapons design…
“Rule number one when jumping in front of a speeding destroyer: keep all of your body parts on one side of the bow.” Peter Willcox writing with Ronald Weiss in…
