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Nuclear power

Some see nuclear power as an important ‘tool in the box’ to limit carbon emissions and stop climate change. It's more like a spanner in the works.

Nuclear power is inadequate, unnecessary as well as dangerous. It's also a hugely expensive distraction from work to limit the impacts of climate change.

Can nuclear power stop climate change?


Much is made of nuclear power being essential for tacking climate change because it is CO2 free, but even at the most optimistic build rate, 10 new reactors by 2025, the UK's carbon emissions would be cut by just four per cent.

The UK has a binding target of a 34 per cent cut by 2020, meaning that new nuclear’s ability to help meet our obligations is tiny.

We only have so much time and money to spend and must prioritise those technologies with the greatest potential to meet our energy needs and cut emissions.

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Government hidden subsidy to fix new nuclear waste costs

12 June, 2008

Responding to the White Paper on nuclear waste, Nathan Argent, Greenpeace's nuclear campaigner, said: "No company would invest in nuclear if they were left to pay the full costs of nuclear waste. That's why the Government is fixing it so the financial risks fall on the taxpayer. The costs will massively over-run, as they have consistently done so far.

"No-one knows how much the Government's shoddy plans would cost. Even Hilary Benn, the minister responsible, admitted as much in Parliament this afternoon.

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Cranes, canoes and rainwater collectors

Posted by bex - 31 May 2007 at 3:15pm - 2 Comments

Volunteers at the top of a crane in Olkiluoto

The things you learn when working for Greenpeace. Today, I found out how to collect several litres of rainwater using a banner, two hard hats, a hollow cross-member of a crane and a CamelBak water bag - while 80 metres up in the air, hanging onto a crane.

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