Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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The anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2011
I've discovered that when the facts don't suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce. Over the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong.

Letters: No definitive answers in the nuclear debate
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2011
George Monbiot is, at best, confused about debates over nuclear power (The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all, 5 April). The real issue is not which individual "foremost campaigner" wins some polemical skirmish. Those with greatest interest in portraying the issues...

England | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | Nuclear Power

UK must push on with nuclear plans: scientists
Reuters | 29 Mar 2011
Nuclear plants remain one of the safest ways to make electricity, and Britain should not allow Japan's tsunami-provoked problems to delay its new build plans, UK scientists said on Tuesday.

Sir David King: a 'massive opportunity'
Guardian Unlimited | 29 Mar 2011
Sir David King says nuclear power is a 'massive economic opportunity' and should be pursued despite incidents in Japan. Stepping on to a transatlantic flight will expose a person to more radiation than walking around the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan - even in its current state of near-meltdown – according to the UK government's former chief scientist. Sir David King mounted a robust defence of nuclear power on Wednesday as renewed fears over its dangers buffeted the industry.

British nuclear industry needs overhaul before it can expand, says top scientist
Guardian Unlimited | 28 Mar 2011
Sir David King says industry is geared towards decommissioning and must be restructured if coalition's plans are to go ahead. The UK's nuclear industry is in no shape to cope with a large-scale reactor building programme and must be overhauled if the coalition wants to push ahead with its nuclear...

England | Governance | Industry | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Waste

Letters: Weighing up the cost of nuclear power
Guardian Unlimited | 28 Mar 2011
Nuclear power is unsafe because the consequences of any accident are so dire. Despite George Monbiot's perverse conclusion (Why Fukushima made me stop worrying about nuclear power and love it, 22 March), the disaster at Fukushima has so far caused the evacuation of over 100,000 people, the...

Disasters | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | Governance

Government to cut health and safety inspections by a third
Guardian Unlimited | 21 Mar 2011
Automatic practice inspections set to only focus on high risk sites, such as energy, nuclear sites and chemical industries. Health and safety inspections are to be cut by a third in the deregulatory drive being pushed through Whitehall ahead of the "go for growth" budget due to be introduced in April. The work and pensions minister Chris Grayling is to announce that future automatic practice inspections should only focus on high risk sites, such as energy, nuclear sites and chemical industries.

Letters: Another rod to beat the nuclear industry
Guardian Unlimited | 15 Mar 2011
It's hardly a surprise that building nuclear power stations on seismic fault lines, as Japan has done, turns out to be a foolish thing. The Fukushima disaster may mean meltdown or worse, but what it will certainly mean is extra expense (Disaster in Japan, 14 March). Nuclear has always been an expensive white elephant. UK taxpayers subsidise nuclear to the tune of £1bn a year.

EU mulls nuclear-free future, extra tests on reactors
Reuters | 15 Mar 2011
Europe's energy chief Tuesday raised the prospect of a nuclear-free future and said the 27-nation bloc is considering "stress testing" its nuclear power stations to check they can cope with crises.

Energy Production | Environmental Impacts | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Waste

Nuclear safety worries spread to Europe
Guardian Unlimited | 12 Mar 2011
Disaster puts pressure on governments, with protests in Germany and concern over new plant plans in Italy and the UK. Tens of thousands of people have taken part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in southern Germany. The demonstration had been planned for some time, but after the news of Japan's nuclear emergency, organisers were overwhelmed by crowds of around 50,000 people who turned up.

Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation

Nuclear risk from plane crashes is higher than estimated, inquiry shows
Guardian Unlimited | 21 Feb 2011
The risk that planes will crash into nuclear plants and release potentially lethal clouds of radioactivity is significantly higher than official estimates, according to expert evidence to a public inquiry. Studies submitted to the inquiry to expand Lydd airport in Kent, which began last week, cast doubt on assurances from the government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) that the dangers of accidental plane crashes are too small to worry about.

Britain's new generation of green power plants 'are caught in planning delays'
Guardian Unlimited | 19 Dec 2010
CBI and unions call on government to clear logjams delaying 37 major energy schemes that could create up to 50,000 construction jobs. The opportunity to create up to 50,000 badly needed jobs in the construction sector by building a new generation of "greener" power plants is being thrown away by...

United Kingdom | Economy | Energy Production | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Waste

Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security?
Guardian Unlimited | 19 Dec 2010
Calling a nuclear security programme 'New Dawn' isn't going to improve the national mood. Now, imagine you're running an elite branch of the police, responsible for the security of the country's nuclear material and installations. Imagine you're instituting a programme of modernisation and reform so that it can cope better with the threats posed by international terrorism. Would you call the programme "New Dawn"? I think I would not.

Inquiry call into nuclear waste
BBC | 30 Mar 2010
A call for a public inquiry into how to deal with waste from a planned Anglesey nuclear power station is backed by the Welsh Assembly Government.

Wales | Governance | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Waste

'Lost' nuclear waste found in old barrels and pipework
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 07 Dec 2009
Small amounts of weapons-grade nuclear material mislaid at Scotland's Dounreay have been tracked down during the decommissioning of the facility.

Nuclear Waste

The rise of climate-change art
Guardian Unlimited | 02 Dec 2009
Artists are waking up to climate change. But what good can they do - and how green is their work? Cornelia Parker, Gary Hume and Keith Tyson reveal how they're dealing with the threat of catastrophe

Nuclear Waste

Nuclear safety concern dismissed
BBC | 28 Nov 2009
The Health and Safety Executive dismisses fears the planned new reactor at Hinkley Point will be unsafe.

Nuclear Power | Nuclear Waste

Recycle and get £130 a year under Tory plans
Telegraph | 24 Nov 2009
Householders will be able to accumulate points for the waste they recycle and claim £130 a year in vouchers from major retailers.

Nuclear Waste

Nuclear waste plan put to public
BBC | 15 Nov 2009
People in west Cumbria are given the chance to find out more about government plans to store nuclear waste underground.

Nuclear Waste

Nuclear waste plan put to public
BBC | 15 Nov 2009
People in west Cumbria are given the chance to find out more about government plans to store nuclear waste underground.

Nuclear Waste

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