Here are three pieces I have done this week for the BBC and Sky News. They are about Ban Ki Moon’s climate summit in New York. A key point that I make is that climate change is impacting on people’s lives right now. Another is that […]
Hinkley and Sizewell will cost us £155 billion over 30 years under the CfD
Nuclear power would appear to have acquired the power to destroy logic
Some people worry about nuclear power because they fear the risks to human health from radioactivity. Others are concerned about the morality of leaving a legacy of radioactive wastes that will be dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Others again are concerned about the risks of proliferating nuclear weapons […]
The first of my video blogs: why the UK should not pursue nuclear
UK Energy Policy Will Fail If Government Persists With Nuclear Fantasies
Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on 12th March warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. To substantiate the broad arguments advanced in letter and accompanying note to the Prime […]
Nuclear policy: part of the Government’s omnishambles
The collapse of the Government’s nuclear policy is a somewhat overlooked part of its current omnishambles. In part this is because very few of the journalists writing about nuclear power know much about the subject. Most continue to assert that all but one of Britain’s current nuclear power stations will […]
Why Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – fifth briefing
The fifth in a series of Briefings, written by Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and me, is released today. These are being released following our letter of 12th March to the Prime Minister warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. Briefing […]
Why Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – fourth briefing
The fourth in a series of Briefings, written by Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and me, is released today. These are being released following our letter of 12th March to the Prime Minister warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. The […]
Why Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – third briefing
The third in a series of Briefings, written by Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and me, is released today. They are released following our letter of 12th March to the Prime Minister warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. This […]
Why Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – second briefing
I am producing a series of Briefings along with Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett, following our letter of 12th March to the Prime Minister warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. The second of these Briefings, Investing in Nuclear: Current Concerns, is […]