The radioactive waste produced by nuclear power remains harmful
for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. The government is desperate for a solution – but burying it under
the Lake District isn’t the answer.
The sun is setting on nuclear power plans for the UK
For years the government has placed its faith in nuclear power and the
corporate interests that drive the nuclear industry. Its committment to the
nuclear dream has warped Britain’s energy
policy at the expense of both bill and tax
payers.
This week two more energy companies abandoned their plans
to build new nuclear power stations in the UK. It’s left the government’s
energy strategy in tatters – and it’s time for them to admit that the future is not nuclear and start
investing in cleaner, safer renewable energy.
I've spent the weekend with a young family who had been forced to flee their homes after the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. Akiko and Makoto Ishiyama had come to the UK to speak at a rally at Hinkley Point in Somerset on the first anniversary of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.
EDF wants to build nuclear reactors in the UK but is facing problems back home in France
If you took the forced bonhomie of last week’s pact between David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy on civil
nuclear power at face value, you'd think that we were heading for a nuclear renaissance. But this won’t be enough to put the wheels back on the nuclear gravy train.
Greenpeace protesters at EDF Evolutionary Power Reactor in France
Despite the growing shift of support away from nuclear energy in
Europe, EDF is stubbornly pushing forward plans to build a new nuclear
reactor
in the UK, without sufficient consideration for all the relevant risks.
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...Johannes Laidler and Andreas Borlinghaus for Pretending!
Last night film makers from across Europe gathered at the Curzon Soho in central London, with one question on their minds: who had won the Greenpeace Film Competition?
We challenged film makers to turn their cameras on Volkwsagen and expose its dirty lobbying. Volkswagen says it wants to be the most eco-friendly car manufacturer, but it's spending millions lobbying against climate laws.
Volkswagen claims to be an eco-friendly company, but in reality it's lobbying against the laws we need to stop climate change and make cars more efficient.
Last month, we challenged film makers from around the world to help us expose the real VW. We gave people just two weeks to write, shoot and edit their films, but it didn't stop us getting some truly amazing - and hilarious - entries.
