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Kyushu Electric Power Co., the monopoly power supplier to Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu, will spend 540 billion yen ($5.9 billion) to build a third … Kyushu Electric to Spend $5.9 Billion on New ReactorRead more

In another demonstration of the lack of public confidence in nuclear power, citizens of Zurich, Switzerland voted to phase-out the city’s use of nuclear energy. … Zurich to phase-out nuclear energyRead more

There’s a very interesting (if biased towards the nuclear industry) film on the BBC’s website about the decommissioning programme at the UK’s Sellafield nuclear facility. … Decommissioning the latest reactorsRead more

An unprecedented invasion of jellyfish earlier this week managed to accomplish what decades worth of activists have failed to do: Shut down San Luis Obispo … Few jellyfish can stop a nuclear plantRead more

Even away from its culture of cover-up and lack of transparency in its dealings, the nuclear industry is one wrapped in riddles, mystery, and wonder. … Mysterious ways of nuclear reactor constructionRead more

scientists have developed two sets of criteria that we can use to judge the “greenness” of competing technologies. The first is called “The 12 principles … “Greenness” of nuclear powerRead more

Britain’s nuclear power stations were originally state-owned. In the last stages of the Thatcherite craze for selling off publicly owned industries, it was privatised. Last … Nuclear is Not the Climate SolutionRead more