Nuclear
Are small nuclear reactors a clean energy solution?
NEWS: Nuclear companies meet to discuss licensing the controversial modular reactors set to cost billions of dollars and be built near towns
As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning
BLOG: 2011 disaster survivors urge UK to ditch atomic plans: “Don’t consider Fukushima as something that could never never happen to you. It could.”
Armed ships embark on secretive plutonium mission
NEWS: Consignment from Japan to the US highlights hidden cost and security risk of growing nuclear waste stockpile
Taiwan election points to nuclear phase-out by 2023
NEWS: Ing-wen Tsai, who leads the presidential polls, envisions a ‘nuclear-free homeland’ with a bigger role for energy efficiency and renewables
China’s prospects for big nuclear fade post-Paris
NEWS: Atomic power is proving too expensive and cumbersome for it to drive top polluter’s commitment to arrest rising carbon emissions
Solar: The biggest winner from Paris climate talks?
ANALYSIS: The standout winning technology from a climate conference in Paris this week may be renewable energy, and in particular solar power
UK ecomodernism launch ‘hijacked by climate lukewarmers’
NEWS: Far right ex-environment minister Owen Paterson appropriated new movement for war against the “green blob”, to the dismay of founders
‘Renegade’ UK physicists say they’re on fast track to nuclear fusion
ANALYSIS: Venture capitalists take on establishment with experimental device, but are optimistic time frames damaging the race?
Will China rescue Europe’s nuclear energy industry?
NEWS: UK sees nuclear power as a way of combating climate change, but costs mean it is struggling to get new reactors built
Europe needs new energy policy as nuclear giants stumble
ANALYSIS: French-led nuclear industry faces unpromising future after string of technical faults, cost overruns and delays
UN climate talks may boost small nuclear reactors
NEWS: The nuclear industry is getting very enthusiastic about small factory-built reactors, which could help its flagging prospects
Nuclear faces tough 2015 as renewables growth soars
NEWS: Governments are still spending billions on nuclear research, but it looks like being an unhappy new year for the industry
Nuclear key to UN climate deal say France and UK
Joint statement says atomic power will play “critical role” in cost-effective low carbon transition
Fukushima to use 100% renewable energy by 2040
Japanese province hit by nuclear disaster aims to generate all its own energy within 30 years
Protests halt Chevron fracking operations in Romania
Monday’s top 5: Chevron postpones fracking operations, Australian fire service warned it should double numbers, and Japan signals return to nuclear
Nuclear “essential” in climate fight say leading scientists
James Hansen and Ken Caldeira say the world will have to use nuclear power as well as renewable energy to tackle global warming
UK to invest in new nuclear generation
Morning summary: UK goes ahead with nuclear station; Smog engulfs one of China’s largest cities; Iowa professors agree climate change will devastate farming
China set to invest in UK nuclear industry
Britain, a pioneer of nuclear power, is handing over its industry to the French and Chinese in a move likely to see a doubling of electricity prices
Bangladeshi NGOs bribe government to release climate funds, says report
Morning summary: New research accuses Bangladeshi authorities of corruption; ICAO rejects EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme; UK nuclear power plant deal is in the offing
Analysis: UK nuclear plans shrouded in mystery
Government says it needs new power stations, but doubts remain over potential costs and whether that much power is needed