"As the false nuclear dawn fades, a new brighter horizon may be revealed, where the intrinsically safe and therefore ultimately cheaper technologies of energy efficiency and renewable energy can used to build a power system fit for the 21st century, not one harking back to the 20th.",NA
"Most of the radioactivity found in the No 2 reactor came from iodine-134., which has a half-life of 53 minutes, meaning it dissipates quickly.",NA
"""If you have new plants now, they will run for 40 or 50 years and then you will have a problem with emissions in the future,"" said Jan Burck, of environmental group Germanwatch.",NA
"In the days that followed, as a fire raged unchecked inside the twisted, white-hot remains of the reactor, the wind direction reversed and the plume, now a kilometre tall, headed west towards north-western Europe.",NA
"The New South Wales deputy premier, John Barilaro, has also thrown his support behind the nuclear push, saying despite the debate over emissions reduction the nuclear “solution” was seen as too “politically risky”.",NA
"Bove and the other European Green party candidates lambasted Britain for backing nuclear power, describing it as ""anti-democratic"".",NA
Most agree that the risk of developing cancer rises by a very small amount at doses above 100 millisieverts a year.,NA
"And we are still stuck on a large nuclear subsidy, even to the extent of distorting the UK energy market, backing an expensive technology come what may – finding ourselves in the surreal situation of planning the largest construction projects ever built on UK soil (Hinkley, Moorside and Sizewell), and contemplating buying reactors from bankrupt and disgraced companies using technologies that have failed wherever they have been built.",NA
"The plant, designed to showcase the Soviet Union’s scientific prowess, began to tremble.",NA
"The three companies planning new nuclear power plants in the UK – EDF, Horizon and NuGen – were preparing to generate 16GW of electricity capacity from their new sites, enough to replace Britain's current nuclear output.",NA
"“One of the lessons from our [Cumbria] experience and experience internationally is that the immediate reaction is negative, because ‘nuclear must be bad’, but once people to get to dig into the detail they get more positive.”",NA
The ministry had decided to review the contract after a report showed documents on plutonium fuel shipments from Sellafield had been falsified and government inspectors were alarmed about safety.,NA
"The environmentalists say there is enough plutonium on board the ships to make 50 nuclear weapons, if the freighters had fallen into terrorist hands during the long voyage.",NA
"A local education official told the Asahi Shimbun that fear of radiation ""may be one cause.",NA
"As the British and American governments signal their renewed commitments to nuclear power as a clean, abundant source of energy that can fuel high growth economies, a new scientific study of worldwide uranium production warns of an imminent supply gap that will result in spiralling fuel costs in the next decades.",NA
Scrap-metal dealers were warned to be vigilant last night after it emerged that two pieces of nuclear waste have been found in scrapyards in recent weeks.,NA
Nuclear reactors are massively expensive.,NA
The government has said the new plant is vital to make Britain more self-sufficient and to cut use of fossil fuels.,NA
"Resistance to geothermal power, coupled with the pre-Fukushima faith in nuclear, means that until now Japan has failed to tap into a resource that energy experts believe has huge potential.",NA
"Nina Schrank, energy campaigner at Greenpeace UK, added: “The lack of seriousness with which the UK government treats nuclear legacy issues makes it predictable that their quest for a suitable site has been so unsuccessful that they are looking again at the Irish Sea, which Sellafield turned into one of the most radioactively contaminated seas in the world.”",NA
"McCain's response nods at the importance of addressing climate change, but then goes on to stress that the United States needs to invest in a broad range of energy sources, particularly nuclear power.",NA
"Patricia Hewitt, the trade and industry secretary, announced a liabilities management authority to take over the decommissioning of old plants and deal with the waste problem.",NA
"The cabinet's approval of the scheme on Tuesday came after the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco], said a further six workers had exceeded the annual legal dose of radiation, underlining the risks they face as they struggle to stabilise overheating nuclear reactors by early next year.",NA
"Satsumasendai continues to receive more than 1bn yen in annual government subsidies for hosting the reactors, but some residents complain keeping the plant shuttered for so long has sucked the life out of local commerce, with hotels, restaurants and other service industries reporting a dramatic drop in trade.",NA
"In contrast, the Government could start plugging the generation gap straight away with another reliable low carbon solution: biomass.",NA
Such system accidents occur with many technologies: take the example of a motorway blow-out leading to a pile-up.,NA
"As Patrick Wintour reports, Ed Davey, the energy secretary, claimed it was a great deal for consumers and would result in energy bills falling by more than £75 by 2030.",NA
"In the years after the signing of the Kyoto protocol, most major countries, including the US, UK, Japan, China and India adopted or reinforced policies supporting nuclear power.",NA
"The news came as Ofgem, the energy regulator, said the statistical probability of major power shortages in the UK would increase to about once in 12 years in 2015, from once in 47 years now, as a result of closing power plants.",NA
"The Italian executive said he was confident he could deliver Hinkley on time, with the first power to be generated by 2025.",NA
"So why should Iran, or any other country for that matter, stick to its commitment not to acquire nuclear weapons?",NA
The case must be made in no uncertain terms: would the public rather have essential services or a redundant weapons system?,NA
"Nuclear power today is a largely friendless industry: uneconomic without heavy government support, uninsurable, stuck with a military heritage from hell, overtaken by cleaner competitors, beset by waste problems that no one has resolved, and always vulnerable to public panic after the Chernobyl or Fukushima accidents.",NA
"The planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset has been hit by another setback, with its developer EDF admitting the project may be further delayed.",NA
"Let us forget, for the moment, that nuclear power spreads radioactive pollution, presents a target for terrorists and leaves us with waste that no government wants to handle.",NA
"The government's safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation, said: ""We are satisfied that Sellafield continues to take appropriate action in response to the enhanced activity levels.",NA
"Professor Peter F Smith Special professor in sustainable energy, University of Nottingham James Lovelock is right to be sceptical about controlling carbon emission with renewable-energy systems.",NA
"“Like most Australians, I’m strongly of the belief that nuclear weapons should play no role in our defence.",NA
These are disruptive technologies that open huge new avenues.,NA
"Last May, a reactor at Heysham 1 was shut down after smoke was seen coming from the plant.",NA
Recovering the liquids and fixing the pipes will take months and may require special robots to be built and sophisticated engineering techniques devised to repair the £2.1bn plant.,NA
Studies show it hosts great biodiversity and experts report minimal negative effects of radiation on the flora and fauna.,NA
A future planned around less energy generated (from whatever source) is a necessary driver towards an economy based on low-carbon goods and services.,NA
"This year the UKAEA was fined a total of £101,000 for safety breaches at the plant after pleading guilty to three charges of contaminating workers with excessive doses of radiation in 1995.",NA
"In the latest setback on Sunday, an ALPS unit was shut down when a pipe began to leak acid.",NA
"Rupert Cox, the chief executive of Somerset Chamber of Commerce, said: ""It's an opportunity to kickstart the local economy – thousands of jobs during construction, hundreds for the many years of operation and millions of pounds for the local economy and the skills and training provision in Somerset.""",NA
"In an article in Science at the beginning of last year, he argued that ""climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today - more serious even than the threat of terrorism"" and criticised the Bush administration for ""failing to take up the challenge"".",NA
"Most worryingly, terrorists will have seen the devastation, disruption and fear that can be caused by an attack on a reactor's cooling system, which presents a much easier target for them than the containment vessel surrounding the core.",NA
"You quote a leader from the GMB (Nuclear expert raises fears over Chinese role in atomic plants, 18 October) as suggesting it is almost Orwellian to allow Chinese investment into our highly sensitive energy infrastructure, given that China has been linked to corporate hacking.",NA
The HSE has also rejected a £40bn plan for cleaning up Sellafield because of proposed delays in dismantling ageing and potentially hazardous facilities.,NA
"Both Plaid Cymru and the SNP are passionate advocates of action against climate change, and both adopt a range of very similar policies in this area, rejecting the need for nuclear power stations in their countries, preferring to draw on their natural resources to develop renewable energy supplies.",NA
"Before the hearing, Charles Secrett, director of Friends of the Earth, said the government's decision to go ahead with the plant ""is dangerous, uneconomic and perverse.""",NA
"Yet rather than build new gas-fired stations, half as polluting as coal, Britain is spending 14 times more per unit of output on a French nuclear reactor.",NA
"Nuclear power is already being fast-tracked through the planning system and today they've announced nuclear will pay a fraction of the community benefit paid by wind power.""",NA
"As Irish campaigner Brian Greene, who blogs at Shut Sellafield , noted: ""From a business perspective the Mox plant has been a total failure so it's no great surprise that they are shutting it down.",NA
"“This will encourage the investment we need to replace older power stations and provide backup for more intermittent and inflexible low-carbon generation sources,” it has said.",NA
"Extreme radiation’s effects, which vary wildly from person to person, can have the grotesque absurdity of a Grimm fairytale.",NA
"It can only be replaced by new nuclear stations that produce the same reliable, always-on, emissions-free power that Hinkley has provided for more than 40 years.”",NA
"According to a report by the Sustainable Development Commission, the government's independent watchdog, this makes nuclear power orders of magnitude better than fossil fuels and on a par with wind power.",NA
"The plant would generate cheap, reliable electricity for 60 years, he said.",NA
"IPAO has much evidence that in Africa the legacy of mining is often terrible health, water contamination and other pollution problems.",NA
"Val Mainwood Wivenhoe, Colchester • In February 2007, as shadow minister of the environment, Chris Huhne said: ""The doubling of our electricity generation from wind in a little more than a year shows what renewables can do and gives the lie to the need for a new generation of nuclear power … On a windy island surrounded by waves and tides, we should never be short of environmentally friendly energy sources.""",NA
Both the UK government and the industry are clear that new nuclear build will go ahead in the UK to secure our long-term environmental and security of supply needs into the future.,NA
This package of proposals forms the basis for Germany's confidence that it can phase out one source of energy and phase in renewable energy and energy efficiency.,NA
Officials did not even wait for the results of the government's own safety review before rushing to assure the British people that a similar disaster is not possible in the UK.,NA
"On Wednesday, the government raised the cumulative legal limit of radiation that the Fukushima workers could be exposed to from 100 to 250 millisieverts.",NA
"Tepco’s Advanced Liquid Processing System removes highly radioactive substances, such as strontium and caesium, from the water but the system is unable to filter out tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that coastal nuclear plants commonly dump along with water into the ocean.",NA
"""From the data at the plant that I have seen, there is no doubt that the reactors have been stabilised,"" Masao Yoshida, the chief of Fukushima Daiichi plant, told the reporters.",NA
"The leaks threaten to delay Abe's plans to restart nuclear reactors, a move he says is necessary to support Japan's economic recovery and improve Tepco's tattered finances.",NA
"Under new management after scathing safety reports and scandals over falsified fuel quality documents, the state-owned BNFL is desperately trying to regain lost business and restore public confidence.",NA
"Given that Lovelock predicted in 2006 that by this century's end ""billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable"", this new laissez-faire attitude to our environmental fate smells and sounds like of a screeching handbrake turn.",NA
"Further embarrassment for the company comes with the disclosure that because of the six months that the leak continued, 83 cubic metres of dissolved fuel from three countries, Holland, Switzerland and Germany, has been mixed together on the plant floor.",NA
They fear that nuclear will suck up most of the available money.,NA
"Kono also criticized the government's handling of subsidies to alternative energy projects, noting that the subsidies were of such short duration that the projects have difficulty finding investors because of the risk and uncertainty involved.",NA
“We are confident that we have met the relevant international requirements in relation to Hinkley Point C.,NA
"However, it follows that any project that will destroy existing sites of specific scientific interest (SSSI) should not be allowed to go forward.",NA
'You can't conceivably get renewables up to 40 per cent [of Britain's total power] in a sensible time.,NA
"Andrew Kenny, an independent engineer and energy specialist, said: ""Koeberg has wonderful safety mechanisms.",NA
"Vincent de Rivaz, the chief executive of EDF, told the BBC on Thursday that nuclear energy is worth the investment because it provides “baseload” power which is available round-the-clock.",NA
"Such is the repulsive force between protons that it takes millions of years to fuse two of them, even in the intense conditions within a star.",NA
"• Toshiba, in combination with GE of the US, also wants to build a Prism reactor, that could generate electricity by burning high-level radioactive waste, probably again in Cumbria.",NA
But non-partisan expert analysis published last month calculated that the plan would cost US taxpayers about $10.6bn a year.,NA
"It added that several workers had been ""irradiated after contamination of their skin"", but that no clinically observable health effects had been reported.",NA
"Most small modular reactors (SMRs) would generate less than a tenth of the power the projected Hinkley Point C will provide, but are backed by industry as a cheaper option to big nuclear plants and an opportunity for British firms to be first in a new technology.",NA
"France’s EDF Energy, which wants to build a second nuclear power plant at Sizewell in Suffolk, is an enthusiastic backer of the model, which it believes would significantly reduce financing costs and therefore be cheaper for consumers.",NA
The disclosure of the poor safety record has placed a question mark over the government's plans to sell a minority stake in the company.,NA
"The renewed efforts came as the EU's energy chief, Guenther Oettinger, said the plant was ""effectively out of control"" and the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation said the situation in Japan was ""developing under the worst scenario"".",NA
"Neither can costs be slashed beyond reasonable limits because, fortunately, there is a Nuclear Installations Inspectorate to regulate on safety.",NA
In my opinion there is a significant risk that the system could fail.,NA
Concern has been voiced over the danger posed to the health of nuclear workers.,NA
"So far, about 9,000 workers have been involved in the four-month operation to stabilise the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where three of six reactors experienced meltdown in the aftermath of the 11 March tsunami.",NA
"But new plants, if they ever actually arrive, are a long way off and the decision to build them should not be allowed to obstruct the development of an intelligent, less centralised energy policy of which nuclear can only be a part.",NA
"The maximum radiation level was ""very, very serious"" for workers on site, who would only be able to remain there for the briefest periods.",NA
"On the first point, George Osborne, the former chancellor, was on the radio supporting the project last week, claiming that the costs would be borne by French group EDF and its Chinese partner CGN.",NA
"He said ""Given the fact that we may need to replace a third of our electricity generation, there is a serious risk that one day we'll switch on the lights and there won't be gas or electricity unless we deal with this planning problem.""",NA
"Unlike the reactors, the pools are not contained – meaning that if they release radioactive material there is only the building to prevent it leaking further into the environment.",NA
"Pressure on ministers to get a deal with EDF was highlighted on Tuesday when Alistair Buchanan, head of the energy regulator, Ofgem, warned that UK customers face higher bills for years to come as gas imports rise to replace ageing power stations taken out of service.",NA
"Soviet air force pilots climbed into the cockpits of TU-16 bombers and made the easy one-hour flight to Chernobyl, where the reactor burned.",NA
Nuclear fusion powers the sun and has long been touted as the ultimate solution to powering the world while halting climate change.,NA
"Tepco's admission in August that about 300 tonnes of radioactive groundwater is escaping into the nearby Pacific Ocean every day, and the more recent discovery of leaking storage tanks and pipes, prompted the government to inject more than £300m to contain the water crisis.",NA
"Successive federal governments over decades have failed to lock down a remote-area site to store nuclear waste because of regional opposition, and in a separate process the SA Labor government has struggled to sell a plan to develop a high-level nuclear waste storage facility, with a citizen’s jury last year resoundingly rejecting the concept.",NA
"Why would a trade unionist wish to expose working people to these dangers, when they could instead be employed, at minimal risk to their health, building and installing wind turbines, wave machines and solar power plants?",NA
"In 2016, then energy and climate secretary, Amber Rudd, summed up the government’s position: “Investing in nuclear is what this government is all about for the next 20 years.”",NA
"Alternative energy sources, especially when microgenerated, can be decentralised and under the control of local communities.",NA
On 11 March 2011 a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the north-east coast of Japan and triggered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.,NA
There is no solution to nuclear waste.,NA
"In December, the government said the estimated cost of decommissioning the plant and decontaminating the surrounding area, as well as paying compensation and storing radioactive waste, had risen to 21.5 trillion yen ($187bn), nearly double an estimate released in 2013.",NA
"Chernobyl was a disaster for people, but for wildlife?",NA
"So when a utility is needed to build a nuclear power station, it's no surprise that the only one left with the cash and the appetite is the Nicolas Sarkozy-backed EDF. While the Dutch, Germans and others ensured their power companies invested in enormous gas storage capabilities, the UK has left it to the market, which did little about it, even though it has been clear for many years that the UK is becoming dependent on imported gas and needs somewhere to keep it.",NA
"The CCC's central conclusion that investing in low-carbon electricity generation is likely to be cheaper than continued reliance on gas is, as the committee argue, evidence based.",NA
"Areva, the French nuclear group that works with EDF, had to be rescued from bankruptcy by the French government because of the problems in the industry.",NA
"""Mark one containment, especially being smaller with lower design pressure, in spite of the suppression pool... you'll find something like a 90% probability of that containment failing,"" he told an industry trade group at the time.",NA
EPR reactors being built at Flamanville in France and Olkiluoto in Finland have met with huge cost overruns and lengthy delays.,NA
"Dr Caroline Lucas MEP Rapporteur on aviation and climate change, European parliament In all the sound and fury about nuclear power, scant attention has been given to the fact that millions of families are currently unable to heat or light their homes adequately, having to deal with the blight of fuel poverty - a problem which has been exacerbated by the dramatic increase in energy prices, which shows no signs of stopping.",NA
"However, Eric Loewen, chief engineer at GE Hitachi nuclear, claims that the technology should be economically competitive due to its small and fixed-size modular design, which allows it to be produced in an off-site factory.",NA
"We’re on the brink of an affordability crisis – research shows that when the average bill hits £1,500 a year a majority of households will be forced to take drastic action on their energy bills and this could lead to further compromises on health and wellbeing.""",NA
This is good news because it would allow both detection and deterrence of any dash for a weapon.,NA
"A government spokesman said: ""We are keen to ensure that operators of new nuclear power stations meet in full their waste management, waste disposal and decommissioning costs.""",NA
"But there's little evidence so far that fracking, wind power, nuclear or any other technology is helping us leave any carbon in the ground.",NA
A large fraction of the carbon dioxide emitted in burning fossil fuels stays in the air many centuries.,NA
"We don’t need to call on the phantom of nuclear power to secure a reliable, carbon-free electricity supply for the future.",NA
The worst-case scenario following a commitment to nuclear new-build would be a sterilisation of non-nuclear investment while the nuclear programme itself stalled.,NA
Babcock's nuclear revenue could quadruple to £1bn in 4-5 years.,NA
"International studies of new nuclear reactors are focussed on recycling, fuel breeding, transmutation and burning of high-level wastes to reduce the waste decay times to only 1,000 years, and many other applications.",NA
"Fukushima city, 35 miles from the nuclear plant, contained enough radioactive waste to fill 10 baseball stadiums, he said.",NA
She agrees with the 2003 energy white paper which stressed the use of renewables plus far greater efficiency by energy users.,NA
"In a furious letter to Tepco's president, Naomi Hirose, Japan's national fisheries federation said the water leakages were an ""act of treason to all fishing industry workers and to all members of the public in Japan"".",NA
"People living in the countries affected today ""need not live in fear of serious health consequences from the Chernobyl accident"".",NA
"But he added: ""It's obviously alarming when you talk about radiation, but if you have radiation in non-gas form I would say dump it in the ocean.""",NA
"But soon after its privatisation in 1996, British Energy began to run into financial problems.",NA
"But big projects created big environmental problems: radiation from Chernobyl in Ukraine, displacement of populations from the Narmada dam in central India, acid rain from coal-fired power stations in Europe.",NA
But Hosono warned it could take more than 30 years to completely decommission the plant.,NA
"Last week PowerGen, the German-owned group once seen in the City as a paragon, shut down a quarter of its generating capacity and bluntly told ministers that the sector as a whole was ""bust"".",NA
"Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: ""The government's draft national planning statements on energy are fundamentally flawed.",NA
"A sceptic might explode and say: ""You can't use a word like 'mishap' to describe a nuclear accident!""",NA
"European energy commissioner Günther Oettinger said safety at older German nuclear power stations must be checked rigorously, and he refused to rule out closures.",NA
"A French NGO, the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, said levels of radiation were no longer negligible, a claim Thomas dismissed as ""absolutely ridiculous"".",NA
"Because of the virtually permanent presence of small doses of radiation around the ""Zone"", the number of people with cancer, neurological disorders and genetic mutations increases with each year.",NA
She said: “What’s best for the planet can also turn out to be best for the economy and for people.”,NA
Thirty per cent of UK generating capacity needs to be replaced over the next 20 years.,NA
“Propping up this dying industry has become more and more difficult and expensive for the handful of governments still hoping for a nuclear renaissance.,NA
The most horrible way to die.,NA
"Government and the nuclear industry have been in each others pockets ever since, as shown by the shocking collusion to downplay the Fukushima disaster, just hours after it happened.",NA
"Another doomsday scenario – and one the engineers are battling now – is that one or more of the huge water pools used to store spent fuel boils dry, exposing the fuel rods to the atmosphere where they catch fire.",NA
America's nuclear reactor fleet moved deeper into middle-aged crisis on Friday when operators decide to shut down two reactors at the troubled San Onofre power plant in California.,NA
"Asked how long it would take to bring the overheating reactors under control, he said: ""I think several months would be one target.""",NA
"In its 2012 report Solar Power, Darkest Before the Dawn, their team concluded that big as the solar cost-down had been over the period in question, costs will continue to fall at about 10% a year, some markets already are at grid parity, many more will be by 2015, and that by 2020 fully a thousand gigawatts of solar PV could be installed around the world.",NA
"Some fourth-generation designs, if governments are prepared to invest in sufficient research and development, could answer three needs at once: for low carbon energy, energy security and the disposal of nuclear waste.",NA
"The plant should stay open until 2016, the end of its original design life, he said.",NA
"But the sector had undergone a “quiet revolution” as costs fell, it said.",NA
"Onshore wind is cheap, but not always popular with local residents or reliable, and other forms of technology - such as wave and solar - are decades away from being either as big in scale or as dependable.",NA
We have a very old generating fleet and the UK needs new capacity.,NA
Mr Dzhakishev said importing waste from rich countries was the only way of raising the more than £1bn required to begin dealing with his country's nuclear legacy.,NA
"In a possible sign that the contamination is more widespread than previously thought, a university researcher said at the weekend a small amount of plutonium had been identified a mile from the front gate of the Fukushima plant.",NA
"With the exception of a nuclear missile attack, it withstood the sternest of all possible tests.",NA
"“If they build plants in places with a lot of water, the consequences of a nuclear leakage would be extremely grave,” He said.",NA
And nuclear reactors are uninsurable.,NA
"""Those answers risk locking in UK energy to an inflexible and vulnerable pathway that will prove unsustainable,"" he added.",NA
"Tom Burke, chair of the E3G thinktank, said: “The only way to build another big nuclear reactor is if the government puts electricity bills up twice to pay for it – first to buy the concrete and steel to build it and then again to buy its electricity at far higher price than renewable generators will be charging.",NA
"12.24pm: And here are the thoughts (via Terry Macalister) of WWF UK's Nick Molho: Given the increasing concerns around the economic viability of new nuclear and the repeated delays to the CCS [carbon capture and storage] demonstration programme, renewable energy and energy efficiency are our best bets to deliver a secure, cost-effective and low-carbon power sector by 2030.",NA
"They range from a more secure supply, less prone to the blackouts that hit the US, Italy and New Zealand in recent years, to a system far more energy efficient than the national grid which, according to Ofgem, loses power as heat that costs Britain nearly $1bn each year.",NA
Existing locations are likely places for new plants because local communities tend to be supportive.,NA
"However, on average these outages represent a much smaller quantity of lost generation compared to the day-to-day intermittency of wind or solar.",NA
"""There is virtually no wildlife damage anywhere near Fukushima.",NA
"To the anger of environment groups, the BNFL chief executive, Norman Askew, demanded preferential treatment for nuclear power over renewable energy which, he said, said could never replace nuclear generation in providing 25% of the country's supply on a 24 hour basis, known as the baseload supply.",NA
The government currently has no idea what to do about the UK’s massive legacy of nuclear waste.,NA
"Government safety watchdogs yesterday threatened to shut down commercial activities at Britain's biggest nuclear site, at Sellafield, after damning reports set out a catalogue of ""systematic management failures"" which allowed workers to routinely falsify quality assurance records.",NA
The message is clear: nuclear plants cannot go bankrupt.,NA
"The risk to the local community at Dalgety Bay was very low, said a UK government spokeswoman.",NA
"The department of energy has developed a number of remotely operated robots designed to clear up radioactive waste from department of energy test weapons sites, Lyons said.",NA
"The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl almost 20 years ago has so far claimed fewer than 50 lives, according to a study by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN Development Programme and the World Health Organisation.",NA
It's time to call it a day – close down the nuclear power industry and scrap Trident.,NA
This is the second strand of greens' objection to these technologies: that they are not essential to meeting real human needs (as opposed to corporate interests).,NA
"We're great believers in developing alternative methods of generating energy, but we also accept that there is a need and a desire for nuclear energy, given the current scenario.",NA
Successive governments have sworn that Britain would not become a dump for the world's growing mountains of nuclear waste.,NA
The sensible alternative is a distributed generation system which integrates and controls power.,NA
"British Nuclear Group, the operating arm of Sellafield-based BNFL, has admitted that it will not survive unless it halves spending on decommissioning old atomic power stations.",NA
"Each change to the programme not only extends the overall bill to the taxpayer but has a devastating effect on the supply chain of contractors and other local stakeholders, with a resulting loss of confidence in the whole industry, including any potential new build.""",NA
CGN said: “We are delighted that the British government has decided to proceed with the first new nuclear power station for a generation.,NA
"“Running costs for a geological disposal facility storing the waste 1,000 metres below the surface would be significantly lower,” the business group said.",NA
"In addition, new housing developments should be designed and built with small local combined heat and power (CHP) plants.",NA
Old fears of a massive nuclear meltdown have resurfaced in Germany.,NA
"The report, compiled for the EU by environmental group Wise Paris before September 11, said events that could trigger an atmospheric release of high level radioactive waste at the plant included explosions and air crashes.",NA
The government has also promised nuclear developers that taxpayers will meet any of their cost overruns from decommissioning the new reactors and storing the waste.,NA
'A repository [would] be here for thousands of years.,NA
But the truth is that in Britain the chances of being exposed to even the mildest excess dose of radiation from the civilian nuclear power system are vanishingly small.,NA
"The committee chairman, Gordon MacKerron, admitted: ""It has always seemed to me unlikely that all the foreign wastes would be returned.""",NA
"""Everybody's blaming the Labour government, but the problem started with the Tories: no government has really grasped the nettle of an energy mix to make sure that we have got secure supplies,"" says Bainbridge.",NA
Site may attract terrorists; potential safety risk for one million years or more.,NA
Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is battling to recruit up to 50 inspectors to cope with its existing workload in the nuclear industry and the vital assessment of the reactors being put forward to meet government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations.,NA
"These overly complex instruments risk skewing the market towards nuclear and the ""Big 6"", at the expense of renewable energy and smaller suppliers.",NA
"“It’s got a government committed to reducing carbon and seeing nuclear as one of the solutions, and it has got a substantial and pre-eminent legacy of nuclear operations – a trained and capable workforce and a nuclear supply chain.”",NA
"Offshore wind is also costly – for example in comparison to onshore wind, which is now a big business for BP in the United States – and indeed to nuclear.""",NA
"We did not ask for this nuclear power base to be built beside us, but we are just as vulnerable as the people of Britain.""",NA
"In the classic Frankenstein tradition, will humanity not understand what it has created until it’s too late?",NA
Two robots specially tailored to negotiate debris inside damaged tunnels and pipes stalled last year when they closed in on the reactors’ highly radioactive innards.,NA
For the same price we could put solar hot water and PV with battery storage on the same 6m homes and thus taking a quarter of British homes out of fuel poverty for ever.,NA
"The US-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service opposition group also reported uranium prices have risen 600 per cent in five years, threatening nuclear's traditional operating cost advantage.",NA
"""Nuclear power has no future in Germany.",NA
"Peter Atherton, an influential energy analyst at Citigroup, said in a report: ""If construction costs are indeed anything like that, then an already very challenging programme may be reaching the point of impossibility.""",NA
"""It is possible that nuclear power has only survived for as long as it has because its true costs have been hidden from us, and because its radioactive emissions are invisible,"" the report says.",NA
"A consortium including British Nuclear Fuels and Rolls Royce has spent more than £20m over three years on the project, but has been told to reconsider the method chosen because it may not be safe.",NA
"Increasing human numbers by 50% means that we will have to provide most of the water for some billions of people primarily with desalination, an energy-intensive process.",NA
Schellnhuber also said that the world's energy system could be transformed to a cleaner and cheaper renewable model for the same expenditure already paid out in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.,NA
Nuclear power is the ultimate non-sustainable technology.,NA
"Nuclear power stations, it was once famously observed, produce three things ordinary people don't want: expensive electricity, radioactive waste, and weapons-grade plutonium.",NA
"“If all of these sailors were exposed to a similar amount of radioactivity and it was above the threshold that definitely causes cancer, you would expect there to be a statistically significant spike,” he said.",NA
"Keith Taylor, new joint principal speaker of the Green party, agrees that the worst nuclear disaster would not be as serious as the worst possible climate change.",NA
"Martyn Williams, an energy expert at Friends of the Earth, said: ""It's incredible that ministers can keep a straight face when promising not to subsidise new reactors – they're already drafting new laws to bail out the nuclear industry with taxpayers' money if radioactive waste costs are higher than expected.""",NA
She said an independent review had confirmed “no deficiencies were identified”.,NA
"Much of the hype for hydrogen is coming from the oil and gas sector, in the hope that gullible politicians, seduced by an unattainable vision of limitless green hydrogen, will subsidise the vast investments needed to capture the emissions from gas-powered hydrogen.",NA
The government has yet to decide how to compensate the tens of thousands of residents and business owners who will be forced to start new lives elsewhere.,NA
"And with Centrica, parent company of British Gas, keen to take a £3.1bn stake in the new nuclear company, will it become the proud owner of several dozen bombs-worth of plutonium, too?",NA
"British Energy is not a serious investment in its current form because nobody - least of all the company's management, it seems - has an accurate picture of the bill for restoring its ageing nuclear plants to a vaguely reliable state.",NA
Mr Johnston says gas remains a better option.,NA
"While this weekend’s transformer failure left the actual nuclear reactor intact, Riccio called the decision to have a power plant so close to New York City “abysmal” – both because of the number of people potentially exposed to a nuclear disaster and the enhanced threat of terrorist attacks.",NA
"“We know that a military strike or a series of military strikes can set back Iran’s nuclear programme for a period of time,” he said, “but almost certainly will prompt Iran to rush towards a bomb, will provide an excuse for hardliners inside of Iran to say, ‘This is what happens when you don’t have a nuclear weapon: America attacks.’",NA
"How extraordinarily convenient that, just after the nuclear power mega-disaster of Fukushima and just when it is becoming clear around the world that citizens do not want nuclear power and that no one knows how to get rid of the lethal waste, the nuclear industry and government discover we can ""safely"" have enough nuclear power for the next 500 years not only without creating any nuclear waste but also by consuming the nuclear waste we already have in the power creation process (Nuclear waste could fuel new breed of reactors, 3 February).",NA
"In a speech which drew immediate criticism from environmental groups, Hutton said that the two controversial sources of energy were crucial to ensure that Britain retained a secure energy supply.",NA
"“Instead of building cleaner gas plants to meet demand when renewables can’t, the government has been subsidising more polluting diesel-fired plants,” he added.",NA
Yet even the world's worst civilian nuclear disasters so far can be unequivocally linked to fewer than 100 deaths from radiation.,NA
Perhaps the government simply accepts no-one will ever trust it on nuclear power.,NA
"""Japan's nuclear disaster will only intensify the global race for cheap fossil fuels while most future energy research and development will go into nuclear safety,"" he said.",NA
Davey said his opposition was driven by his belief they would create massive instability and uncertainty in the industry at a time when investors were crying out for certainty.,NA
"“In particular, it reflects an improving understanding of the challenges, potential technical solutions and uncertainties still involved in the decommissioning projects and programmes to retrieve, package and store high risk, hazardous materials.",NA
"The poll also found that 53 per cent of MPs agree that nuclear should be a major contributor to energy supplies - up five percentage points since 2004 - with those disagreeing at 34 per cent, down from 43 per cent last year.",NA
"Future generations will doubtless wonder, when most of Europe is shutting down its nuclear power stations and not planning any more, why in the world the local population didn’t protest harder.",NA
"At the same time, engineers labour away - behind thick lead sheeting - with robot arms, stripping down fuel elements and cleaning contaminated equipment.",NA
Ahmadinejad gives a speech at the United Nations stating that Iran has the right to develop a nuclear power programme.,NA
They would point out that wholesale power prices were double their current level in 2008 – at £80 per MWh – and could rise to this level when Britain’s coal-fired power stations are phased out because of age and greenhouse gas regulations.,NA
"Not only will emissions fall, but thousands, if not millions, of jobs will be created.",NA
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"""What a blot on the landscape.",NA
"The scientists admit that a commercial reactor is a long way off, but they believe the laser approach to producing fusion shows great promise.",NA
"Never mind the true economics or the potential environmental damage - resource-wise, the nuclear option is simply a stop-gap.",NA
"Am I alone in noting that UK civil nuclear infrastructures are uniquely implicated in all four ""tier one"" threats identified in the recent defence white paper (Report, 19 October)?",NA
Ministers are in a rush because they know Britain faces an energy crunch after 2015 when many existing nuclear and coal-fired stations will reach the end of their lives or need to be phased out because they do not meet pollution standards.,NA
It will want the contaminated groundwater recovered but this may prove expensive even if it is technically possible.,NA
"“We’re told that nuclear power is safe but we’ve seen the devastating effects of accidents in Chernobyl and Japan,” he said.",NA
"“We have great concerns about onsite storage of spent fuel in the pools,” Lyman said.",NA
· The public purse could ultimately be used for all decommissioning of new plants and waste disposal.,NA
"The newspapers had carelessly printed the terrifying headline: ""Britain's nuclear industry - collapse imminent.""",NA
"""It's a good idea,"" said Julie Downham, a care nurse working in Lydd.",NA
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"Although the energy sector has shrunk, ""the dash for gas"" has made a big dent in the environment and Jones believes nuclear power in the UK has a bright future, that he hopes will bring a wealth of job opportunities for a new generation of scientists and engineers.",NA
"On the table was new nuclear power, and its role in moving the UK to a low-carbon economy.",NA
"The operator of Diablo Canyon is Pacific Gas & Electric, the company successfully sued by the citizens of the small town of Hinkley after it had allowed poisonous hexavalent chromium to leach into their ground water and lied about it, as immortalised in the film Erin Brockovich.",NA
Tepco and its network of partner companies at Fukushima Daiichi have yet to identify the location and condition of melted fuel in the three most seriously damaged reactors.,NA
"This second explosion also ejected chunks of graphite moderator into the air, which caught fire, releasing radioactive fallout.",NA
"And it came as the managers of the UK's biggest plant, Sellafield, admitted they had finally halted a radioactive leak many believe has been going on for 50 years.",NA
"The French environmental group, the Committee for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, said that the radioactivity released into the environment was at least 100 times higher than the fixed limit for that site for the entire year.",NA
"It’s not saying never [to nuclear], but the costs are coming down fast with renewables.”",NA
"“The thyroid radiation doses post-Fukushima were about 100 times lower than after Chernobyl due to a number of factors”, Thomas said, adding that “all the evidence we have on levels of exposure and the data from the health screening programme in Fukushima suggests that it is very unlikely that we will see any increase in thyroid cancer in these children, who are now adolescents and young adults”.",NA
"If the UK relies excessively on a carbon price, we will end up locked in to a gas-based energy system, which is bad news for the climate, the consumer and for security of supply.",NA
"This issue is especially sensitive in France, where the state-owned Electricité de France has used decommissioning funds to finance acquisitions abroad.",NA
"But, as the Guardian witnessed on a rare trip to the nuclear plant, the destruction is more insidious than collapsed roofs and ruptured tarmac, but no less shocking.",NA
"In addition to potential security concerns, some in Whitehall had always harboured doubts about whether the vast reactor project was worth the generous subsidies that the government had had to pledge to get an investment agreement.",NA
The government was last night under growing international pressure to abandon hopes of a commercial future for the nuclear plant at Sellafield in Cumbria by agreeing to an immediate halt in reprocessing of spent fuel.,NA
"But, with the right incentives, nearly one in five buildings in Britain would effectively become mini power stations, feeding electricity into the grid, or generating enough to be largely self-sufficient.",NA
"The UK's most eminent engineers have warned that the biggest set of investments and social changes ever seen in peacetime are needed to meet the country's energy needs in the coming decades, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.",NA
One theory is that would-be buyers will see ownership of the company as a way to enter the multibillion-pound British market for decommissioning and clean-up.,NA
"""The government extracts all the uranium without asking permission of the nomadic people and without giving anything to them,"" he claims.",NA
Ministers must think green To have one nuclear power project collapse looked like bad luck for the UK government.,NA
Closing Thorp would reduce the time it takes to run down the massive stockpile of 'highly active liquid' - spent nuclear fuel containing uranium and plutonium - by four and a half years.,NA
"For instance, he said, if local councils were to engage in developing renewable resources, it could lead to a massive expansion and lower bills for consumers, who would be less dependent on expensive imported gas.",NA
"This technology has been talked about for many years as a way of preventing greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, instead pumping them into disused North Sea oilfields.",NA
"While pumping out groundwater upstream and redirecting it into the sea has reduced the amount flowing into the reactor basements from 400 tonnes to 150 tonnes a day, the technology that was supposed to deliver a coup de grace to Tepco’s perennial water problem has encountered problems.",NA
"This week, about 100 staff at Tricastin's nuclear reactor number four were contaminated by radioactive particles that escaped from a pipe.",NA
"At the same time, prices of power from renewable energy sources continue to plunge.",NA
"Nuclear power offers the possibility of cheap, plentiful electricity, which will contribute to social and political stability.",NA
"First, a map in the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) final report makes it clear that each current nuclear power station site is also a store for radioactive waste storage - potentially to include highly radioactive spent fuel wastes.",NA
Government officials have conceded it could take months to bring the reactors under control.,NA
"On the environment it states that 'on unchanged policies (including the expected progressive decommissioning of nuclear power stations), CO2 emissions from UK energy consumption are likely to rise by between 0.01-0.3 per cent per annum to 2050'.",NA
"Egerton explicitly cast the rail workers as dupes when, in fact, those “low-income earners” were perfectly capable of making their own decisions – and had chosen of their own accord not to support environmental destruction.",NA
"It accused Tepco and regulators at the nuclear and industrial safety agency of failing to take adequate safety measures, despite evidence that the area was susceptible to powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.",NA
They also suggest that intermittent sources of power are ineffective for baseload.,NA
"Another start up, Oklo, seeks to create 2-megawatt reactors that fit inside shipping containers to provide electricity for remote off-grid locations.",NA
"But he argued that Africa was not going down that route, because it had fewer vested interests in fossil fuels and renewable energy provided a shortcut for the millions of Africans who still do not have access to energy.",NA
But when the plant opened in 1994 there was no Krypton 85-trapping equipment and up to 500 cubic metres of the gas have been released daily into the atmosphere at Sellafield ever since.,NA
"British Energy has estimated that the total cost of treating the spent reactor fuel, dismantling the reactors at the end of their lives and making the sites habitable will be some £14bn over the next half-century.",NA
"Taxpayers will take on responsibility for clean-up liabilities, and state fuel reprocessing firm BNFL will take a lower price for its services to British Energy at further cost to the taxpayer.",NA
Unconfirmed reports spoke of mounting casualties and of a Kiev hospital crammed with victims of radiation sickness.,NA
"The 92.5p guaranteed electricity price for 35 years, double the existing price and probably higher than the cost of renewable electricity by 2023, when the first power is generated, seems an economically reckless commitment – a grim legacy for our children and grandchildren.",NA
"This is because coal contains trace amounts of uranium and thorium, which are concentrated in the ash.",NA
"What we need is true enlightenment in the liberal classes, not the naivety that shudders at the idea of nuclear power, or places undue faith in renewables, or runs an SUV that uses four times the fuel of an ordinary car, or maintain homes haemorrhaging energy.",NA
"""If ministers go down the nuclear route, they will strangle the new, clean energy technologies of the investment and political support they need.""",NA
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Bennett said: “Of course there are real concerns about radiation particularly around nuclear waste and it’s right we are concerned about that.,NA
"The hidden cost of Britain's new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.",NA
"Nuclear power simply can't generate enough energy to make a sufficient impact on CO2 emissions, especially as the calculations don't take into account the CO2 impact of either the construction of the plants or the energy-intensive fuel extraction and processing.",NA
"""The actual dose on the plate for any consumer is going to be very small in the most part.",NA
"Renewable energy and nuclear power both generate negligible carbon, though renewables provoke less antagonism.",NA
The enormous cost of developing a nuclear power plant and safety concerns that grew out of the three melting Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan in 2011 have made nuclear seem a risky option for addressing climate change.,NA
"For another, the technology required to render radioactive waste inert and harmless already exists, and it ought to be largely perfected by the time any new plants go online.",NA
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Stuttgart this weekend to protest against Angela Merkel's plans to extend the life of 17 German nuclear plants for an average 12 extra years – an event given extra bite following the crisis in Fukushima.,NA
The need to accommodate nuclear power pushes up bills because windfarm owners are being paid to turn off turbines and avoid making unwanted free electricity.,NA
The total emissions from the EU energy sector fell modestly in 2013 but the campaigners say the rising use of cheap coal puts the EU in danger of not meeting future climate targets.,NA
The financial and energy costs of CCS are therefore meteorically unsustainable.,NA
The government's thinly disguised justification for a decision already made rides roughshod over the concerns of the public and patently ignores the warnings of the government's own advisers.,NA
Here's another hard fact: the government has had to give the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority £56bn to clean up after existing nuclear plants.,NA
"This flies in the face of ministers' public assurances, and shows up all those attempts (by politicians and energy companies alike) to justify what Gordon Brown terms the ""nuclear renaissance"" on economic grounds as so much wishful thinking.",NA
"This week, the government was told there is simply no completely safe way of dealing with the 47,000 tonnes of radioactive waste produced by the UK's existing nuclear power stations over the last 50 years.",NA
"""There is no alternative to nuclear energy today,"" he told journalists at the time.",NA
"It is as if a world that wishes to save the climate must learn to appreciate the beauty of nuclear energy - or ""green energy"", as Germany's Christian Democratic Union general secretary Ronald Pofalla has rechristened it.",NA
"If ""the lights threaten to go out"", existing gas-fired generation will run at higher load factors and more can quickly be built.",NA
"You can't build and run a power station with graduates in law, business studies and management consultancy.",NA
"But he added: ""Nuclear workers and their families will be concerned that the removal of organs and tissue was more widespread than originally revealed.""",NA
"He said: ""This is crazynomics – the reality is that the nuclear fairytale is a nuclear nightmare.",NA
"The talks could lead to the government taking a direct financial stake in the project before the end of the current parliamentary term in 2024, and using a new financial model that would make the public liable for cost overruns.",NA
"Fishermen south of Fukushima Daiichi have not been able to fish commercially since the disaster, while those north of the plant can catch only octopus and whelks.",NA
Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency confirmed that caesium-137 and iodine-131 had been detected in the vicinity of the Fukushima power station.,NA
"Proposes investing $150 billion over 10 years in renewables, advanced biofuels, efficiency, and clean tech, and says this will help create 5 million green jobs.",NA
The reality is that economically the risks are great and the returns are low.,NA
It also agreed that current evidence did not indicate a need for a fundamental change in radiological protection standards.,NA
"The prime minister, David Cameron, said previously that a permanent waste solution should be in place before new reactors were built.",NA
"What is certain is that about 350,000 people like Gaydack were evacuated and resettled from the high-level 2,600 square kilometre contamination zone that stretches from Ukraine into Belarus and Russia.",NA
The endless delays in setting a firm date for the final investment decision is seen by critics as a potent symbol of the nuclear industry’s inability to build power stations on time and on budget.,NA
"The aim is to promote the power of fusion, which reproduces the sun's power source, producing no greenhouse gas emissions and only low levels of radioactive waste.",NA
What if real engineering problems follow?,NA
"With electricity output from the remaining five Magnox nuclear power stations, due to be closed by 2010, exceeding targets by 5%, Mr Edwards said the operating performance was the best for a decade.",NA
"When people in this country put the light switch on in 20 or so years time, they expect the lights to go on, but they will not if we make the wrong decision now, and our generation will rightly get the blame.""",NA
"The chair of the campaign group Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA), councillor Mark Hackett, said: “NFLA welcomes the new policy of carrying out a national geological screening exercise, rather than assuming waste can be buried near Cumbria where the geology has been shown to be unsuitable.",NA
"The executive director of Greenpeace UK, John Sauven, said: ""Nuclear power has always been a byword for monumental taxpayer handouts.",NA
"They worry that the more centrifuges spinning, the shorter is Iran's breakout time (the period it would take Iran from a decision to make a bomb to the completion of the first warhead).",NA
Sir David King mounted a robust defence of nuclear power on Wednesday as renewed fears over its dangers buffeted the industry.,NA
"It is a relatively low carbon means to generate electricity, and thus could help meet carbon dioxide reduction targets: or so it is claimed.",NA
"France is perhaps one of the most pro-nuclear places in the world to build a reactor, with about 75% of the country's electricity already generated from the atom.",NA
"She went on ""to express my concern with the nuclear facility at Sellafield and would respectfully request that steps be taken to close this plant, as I feel it is a threat to public safety and quality of life"".",NA
“They try to convince us that the mud is safe and there’s nothing to worry about but I can’t take the nuclear industry’s word for it.,NA
"“We do not accept the suggestions that we may not understand the safety of our sites,” she said.",NA
"Ignoring official assurances that the exposure limit and current radiation readings in the area posed no threat to children's health, parents and teachers in Otama and five other communities in Fukushima prefecture started removing and burying topsoil from school playgrounds.",NA
"Even before the near-meltdowns at Fukushima, there was a small but growing current of unease, particularly among younger people, who have tended to be more environmentally aware than their parents.",NA
There appears to be little difference in the type or clinical outcome of radiation-induced thyroid cancer when compared with age-matched controls.,NA
"Kate Hudson General secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament • Why do not opponents of Trident take the straightforward, compelling and unanswerable stance that it is not Britain's to use?",NA
"Another scenario causing concern involves the storage pools, because they do not have containment systems to stop radiation leaking from them.",NA
"The EPR also includes protection against airline impacts for its reactor dome and an impressive array of safety features, which would make a Fukushima-style meltdown vanishingly unlikely and any radiation properly containable even if the worst ever did happen.",NA
People tell stories of salmon fishermen dying of cancer; Mr Minter says two of his dogs which foraged on Sandside beach died from the disease.,NA
"""This latest loss of power at Torness just underlines how unreliable nuclear power is,"" said Chas Booth, the green councillor for Leith and a member of the Torness local liaison committee.",NA
"Our entire national security apparatus, including Kelly, agree Iran is in basic compliance and the deal is working.",NA
He insisted the mistakes learned would help build plants in Britain on schedule.,NA
"The man’s exposure to relatively low amounts of radiation – lower, even, than those deemed safe enough for residents to return to their homes – could prompt a rethink of the government’s push to promote the resettlement of displaced Fukushima evacuees.",NA
"But even Sellafield's opponents do not foresee quick closure of the complex which provides about 10,000 jobs, because existing reprocessing needs completion and decommisioning would take years.",NA
The cost to the taxpayer to clean up the sites of 20 of Britain's existing nuclear plants has risen to £70bn and is expected to increase.,NA
"Of course, the fact that the health impact of Chernobyl is far less than people tend to believe should not detract from the tragedy: at least 43 people died as a direct consequence of the disaster and up to 4,000 others exposed in 1986 might yet exhibit some ill effect.",NA
"If the government were to guarantee a fixed minimum price for say, 30 years, it would give the kind of financial security for investors to explore the relative capital and pay-back costs of all kinds of generation.",NA
"""The promise of nuclear power has always proved illusory.",NA
"EDF, the French company at the heart of plans to build a new generation of nuclear plants in Britain, has admitted that a similar plant being constructed in France is going to take almost twice as long and cost nearly twice the anticipated price.",NA
"He pointed out that the 14-metre tsunami which hit Fukushima was ""an extremely unlikely event"" that overwhelmed defences designed for a tsunami of more than 2m.",NA
The unseemly dispute comes as the companies are jointly campaigning to convince the government of the case for a nuclear renaissance - involving the construction of some two dozen new atomic power stations to fill a looming energy gap.,NA
The findings run counter to previous hypothesises that chronic long-term exposure to radiation would hit animal populations.,NA
"But all this support pales into insignificance when the issue of nuclear waste is addressed - or, as has systematically been the case, not addressed.",NA
"The 1950s technology of nuclear power won't stop climate change, it will actually leave us more dependent on foreign fuel imports than the decentralised energy alternatives and is a scandalous waste of hot air - quite literally in fact.",NA
Most nuclear stations were designed for 25 to 30 years but the report says they should be retained for 40 years.,NA
The study said the spent fuel pools put America at risk of a widespread radiation leak in the event of a terrorist attack.,NA
New nuclear stations - like renewables - could be helped indirectly through obligations on suppliers to source a percentage of their output from low CO2 sources.,NA
A government study from Oxford Economics and Atkins found the UK supply chain could capture 44% of the total value of a new nuclear reactor.,NA
"After all, the electricity from Fukushima Daiichi went straight to the capital, not to Fukushima itself, which bore the risks.",NA
No one can take possession of sunlight; no one can privatise or nationalise it.,NA
"The country's ailing economy, overtaken by China as the world's second largest last year, is also struggling with the impact of the disaster.",NA
Government advisers have warned that up to 20 million cubic metres of this waste will pile up in the coming years - and there is no way of disposing of nearly all of it.,NA
"If nuclear power is so economic, why have no nuclear plants been built in the UK in the last two decades?",NA
His job is to ensure Britain can morph from a grey land of coal and oil burning to a greener land of renewable energy and imported gas without so much as a flicker of the lights.,NA
"In a sign the new requirements do not appear to be overly stringent, both EDF and China General Nuclear said they were delighted by the approval, which they claimed will let them proceed with Hinkley and their wider plans for nuclear construction in the UK in future.",NA
He added that it was “extremely important” that the Hinkley project went ahead in terms of France “demonstrating our industrial savoir-faire” to the international market.,NA
"He writes specifically about Chernobyl, and he refers to research showing that mice and voles have been scurrying around the site for years without apparently suffering any ill effects.",NA
"Even in the increasingly doubtful event than nuclear can fill the gap, it will not do so before 2020.",NA
"The men's lawyer said he believed more could follow among the 6,000 workers – most of whom work for contractors – involved in the dangerous 40-year operation to decommission the plant.",NA
This shows that it's likely to be 10%-50% more expensive to save a tonne of carbon through coal burning with carbon capture and storage than by means of nuclear energy.,NA
"Design flaws in the cooling system were blamed for the accident, in which 31 people were killed immediately.",NA
Often the counterfactual costs of not investing in a low-carbon energy system are missing from this debate.,NA
An average of 300 tonnes a year of spent fuel from British Energy's AGR reactors have been arriving at Sellafield Ltd and space is very limited.,NA
"""Engineered safety is where you have to have valves and pumps that have to work to deal with the potential dangerous situations.""",NA
"“That cement will be able to capture all of the radioactive elements that might be released from the waste over time,” added Corkhill.",NA
"But there is remarkable academic agreement that the emissions from nuclear, wind, solar and many other non-fossil generation sources are similarly low per unit of electricity generated and these emissions are tiny fractions of those associated with burning coal and gas.",NA
"We have policies to support clean energy, reduce emissions and encourage energy-saving.",NA
"Whichever way you look at it, this has got to be a crazy way of generating power.",NA
The plant - which was originally expected to make profits of around £500m for Sellafield's operators - is now expected to make losses of up to £1bn and has been earmarked for closure by the year 2010.,NA
"After Fukushima, governments also need to think far more carefully about siting nuclear power plants.",NA
It was at 1.23am on 26 April 1986 that a sudden power surge disrupted a routine systems test and Chernobyl Reactor No 4 went into meltdown.,NA
Spain now generates as much as 40% of its electricity from wind power and studies show the investment in renewables has lowered wholesale electricity prices in Spain by more than the cost of the incentive they used to kickstart the industry.,NA
"For one of those lucky countries without high level nuclear waste, this seems like an extraordinary step to make.",NA
"The International Atomic Energy Agency has recommended that Japan release the treated water, while Toyoshi Fuketa, the chairman of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, said a decision on its future must be made soon.",NA
"But after facing those initial few weeks of Washington’s coronavirus crisis on-site at Hanford, workers say they received little information and even fewer safety measures from leadership, and some employees are terrified by the prospect.",NA
"When nuclear power was first suggested, it was as a cheap and modern alternative to fossil fuels - but it wasn't cheap and the risks seemed far larger than any potential gains (Blair reignites nuclear debate, July 7).",NA
"A generation later and their children, David Cameron and Osborne, are handing Britain’s nuclear future back to the public sector – of two foreign countries – and paying handsomely for the privilege.",NA
"But in this case, Osborne's wilful blindness to the green economy, despite it ticking every box he demands for every other economic policy, is doing great harm to the ""Britain of the future"" that he said on Monday he wants to build.",NA
"This is an outrageously bad deal, particularly as the government has secured no guarantee that Hinkley will start generating power when we really need it in 2025.",NA
"Under such a scenario, an agreement that broadens and deepens Iran's inspection regime, takes away its most-enriched uranium (20%), and commits Iran to living under the terms of the international agreements that other non-nuclear weapons states have accepted actually makes the US and our allies more secure, not less.",NA
"""Nuclear power is clearly a route to achieving the UK's commitment to reducing its carbon emissions under the Kyoto accord.",NA
Of most concern is the high level waste.,NA
"We need urgent action to cut carbon emissions; especially in the energy-production sector where fossil fuels - like oil, coal and gas - are major contributors to the looming rise in global temperatures.",NA
Tony Blair's hopes of persuading the public that a new generation of nuclear power plants is the best way to plug the country's energy gap suffered a setback yesterday after it emerged there have been 57 incidents at existing sites since 1997.,NA
"John Swinney said: ""To deliver a greener Scotland we have set an ambitious target of an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050; outlined our plans to invest £1.6bn over seven years in a sustainable rural economy; and made clear our opposition to new nuclear power stations in Scotland.""",NA
They started to call me a denier because I said you can't just stop making CFCs immediately because refrigerators all around the world would break down and they'd be massive food poisoning.,NA
"Atomic stations provide more than three-quarters of French electricity and the government is keen to champion the 85% state-owned power provider, Électricité de France (EDF), and nuclear plant builder, Areva, as they try to build their businesses around the world.",NA
"""Reactors have basically hit their middle-aged crisis.",NA
The review dismisses energy price guarantees and expects private partners to cover the costs of waste.,NA
"Ministers believe renewable energy, such as wind power, cannot fill the void.",NA
"""This proves once again that the DoE must cheat and lie to make Yucca Mountain look safe,"" fumed Nevada senator Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader.",NA
"It would also consign the world to greater use of fossil fuels and higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, unleashing many more natural disasters with huge loss of life.",NA
"""The government must hold the nuclear industry responsible for the catastrophe and seek expert assistance from other countries.",NA
"In a letter of reply last week Cameron staunchly defended the government's support for wind power as one of many sources of energy, citing ""hard-headed"" reasons such as reduced reliance on imported gas and job creation.",NA
"When Lovelock claimed that ""only one immediately available source does not cause global warming and that is nuclear energy"", he was wrong on two counts.",NA
"Even if the material is shipped out, Iran would soon be able to replenish stocks sufficiently to make an atomic bomb.",NA
It would also have put UK businesses in a prime position to capitalise on the growing worldwide market for clean energy technology that is clearly destined to be huge.,NA
"""In propping up a private company with public money, the government's behaviour is reckless in the extreme.",NA
"They talk about the plans for an expansion of grid capacity to deal with extra wind – from Scottish Power and the National Grid – in terms of sheer violence, ground gouged, landscape sliced open, fertile land out of commission for an unforeseeable time.",NA
"Eventually renewables should lead to prices coming down, he says.",NA
"That is supposed to encourage investment, by giving long-term price certainty.",NA
Nuclear power stations were yesterday cleared of any responsibility for childhood cancers in Britain by a high-level team of independent scientists.,NA
"A 2012 parliamentary report said Fukushima was a “manmade disaster” caused by poor regulation and collusion between the government, Tepco and the industry’s watchdog.",NA
Another report showed that fissile waste was being stored in paint tins or simply left where it had been found.,NA
The plan would cost trillions and take decades to implement – and would leave Japan dependent on power lines crossing its energy-hungry and often less-than-friendly neighbour China.,NA
"This Sunday marks the 29th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, when a power surge blew the roof off a reactor, spewing radioactive clouds across Russia, and eastern Europe.",NA
"Klein, however, said tritium does not pose the same threat to heath as bone-settling strontium and caesium, and can be diluted to safe levels before it is released into the sea.",NA
"These overstate the true risk, in Allison's view, by up to 500 times, thus rendering nuclear prohibitively expensive and endangering the combat of global warming.",NA
It is because radiation in these areas is too high to stay over the long term.,NA
"So why does it appear that George Osborne, who has been trumpeting his support for the project to its Chinese backers in Beijing this week, would lock British consumers into some of the highest priced electricity in the world?",NA
"But a hydrogen explosion on 15 March 2011 blew the walls and roof off the reactor building, leaving it vulnerable to further damage from earthquakes.",NA
Anglers and fish farmers have already had to deal with the presence of British radioactive waste entering the food chain.,NA
"""The government must show political courage in its forthcoming energy white paper by spelling out clearly how nuclear power, renewables and energy efficiency measures could best contribute to a future in which carbon dioxide emissions are drastically reduced,"" said a joint statement by the Royal Society's president, Lord May of Oxford, and vice-presidents, Professor David Wallace, Professor Patrick Bateson, Professor John Enderby and Professor Julia Higgins.",NA
"The HSE's public report expresses ""significant concerns"" about the lack of separation between the safety protection and control systems on the EPR reactor design promoted by Areva and EDF of France.",NA
"The US's nuclear industry remains starved of new reactor orders since 1973, and western Europe's first reactor after Chernobyl (1986) is in serious trouble in Finland – 42 months behind schedule, 90% over budget, and in bitter litigation.",NA
"“On top of that, they face extra risks from the unpredictability of operation in coastal areas and transport – particularly in a loaded state – over the high seas.",NA
"Clean energy experts say this would spell disaster for investment, because the certainty provided by the current EU target – of generating 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020 – has been key to spurring the development of alternative energy, which in turn has brought down costs and made low-carbon electricity more competitive with fossil fuels.",NA
"There are a lot of kids not born yet who will end up paying for this,” he said.",NA
"The area surrounding the reactor will not be safe for human habitation for at least another 20,000 years.",NA
The world has a generation of reactors coming to the end of their days and politicians putting intense pressure on regulators to extend their use well beyond their design lives.,NA
"Finally the biggest fear, aside from accidents, spillages, terrorism, nuclear proliferation (and all the other threats that should demand immediate termination of a nuclear programme) is that the commitment to nuclear energy 'freezes out' other more sustainable forms of power generation like renewable and decentralized energy.",NA
"They will not buy ""second generation"" nuclear plants when the much preferable designs for ""third generation"" plants are expected to receive regulatory approval within a decade.",NA
"Going down the private route would put new nuclear groups at risk of bankruptcy because history tells us that infrastructure projects of this scale are notoriously risky investments - as shareholders in Railtrack, British Energy and Eurotunnel discovered to their cost.",NA
"If the areas of concern raised in the light of the Fukushima are addressed, the industry will be ""even safer"", the report said.",NA
"But amid the environmental devastation, the human story of Chernobyl is often lost.",NA
I speak as someone who founded a renewable energy company because of my fears about climate change and the downsides of dependency on conventional energy.,NA
"He said: ""What must be admitted – very painfully – is that this was a disaster 'Made in Japan.'",NA
"Rather than rush to promote (again) environmentally and financially costly options such as nuclear, we should be looking much more seriously at ways of reducing energy demand through improvements in energy efficiency and reduced consumption in housing, transport and manufacturing.",NA
"Speaking at their farm 25km out of town, the Woolfords say people who support the nuclear facility now completely ignore them, including a neighbour whose cat they used to feed.",NA
"The executive director of Greenpeace, John Sauven, said: ""This is bad news for Britain's energy security and bad news for our efforts to beat climate change.",NA
"As for blasting it into space, as some have suggested, does placing tonnes of radioactive waste on top of hundreds of tonnes of high explosive sound smart?",NA
"It’s estimated that the second explosion released 40bn joules of energy - roughly equivalent to a staggering 10 tons of TNT. Contrary to all safety regulations, the roof of the reactor complex had been constructed with bitumen, which proved a highly flammable agent.",NA
Might based on nuclear weapons can be defeated and the Iranian nation will do this.,NA
"Perhaps surprisingly, 42% of people in Japan, still recovering from the huge tremor that wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant, remain supportive of nuclear power.",NA
"In response, Germany cancelled its nuclear programme, embarking on the 'energiewende' (energy shift), which aims to produce 60% of Germany's power through renewable sources by 2050.",NA
"The real problem is the intermediate-level waste, which is not readily identifiable, although some of it is almost as dangerous as that classified as high-level.",NA
"The Manhattan Project, rushing to build the atom bomb, was creating many new radio-elements whose health effects were unknown.",NA
"Hiroaki Nakanishi, the board’s chairman, last week admitted the company was struggling to find investors willing to finance the plant.",NA
The environmental lobby fears that the Sellafield scheme could spread nuclear pollution.,NA
"It is one thing having a working nuclear power station, but it is quite another to store waste for long periods on sites not originally designed for it.'",NA
"The waves killed almost 19,000 people, while the resulting triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi forced 160,000 people to abandon their homes.",NA
"Wind developers also face considerable cost and risk in getting their schemes through the planning process, which is reflected in consumer prices.",NA
"Japan's prime minister at the height of the nuclear crisis has said he feared the country would collapse, and revealed that Tepco had considered abandoning the Fukushima Daiichi power plant after it was hit by the 11 March tsunami.",NA
Battery storage on the scale required is a pipe dream.,NA
CGN looks forward to leveraging its 30 years’ experience in nuclear construction and operation and playing an important role in meeting the UK’s future energy needs.”,NA
"Radioactive material has leaked into the groundwater below a nuclear power plant north of New York City, prompting a state investigation on Saturday and condemnation from governor Andrew Cuomo.",NA
"One such worry is thought to be the possibility that Chinese workers could install a backdoor system, giving Beijing the potential to shut down Britain’s nuclear power stations and use them as leverage in any future diplomatic row.",NA
We’re creating something that he and his generation will be dealing with for many years to come.”,NA
"The annual cumulative radiation dose in one district of Okuma was estimated at 508 millisieverts, which experts believe is high enough to increase the risk of cancer.",NA
"The foundation report says such a new industry would create more jobs, with cheaper and faster results than nuclear energy.",NA
"Without it we spiral down into anarchy and chaos.""",NA
"A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: ""The white paper we published in July 2011, which followed the consultation published in December 2010, set out our conclusions that the contracts for difference (CfDs) will provide the most efficient long-term support for all forms of low carbon generation.",NA
"In a redacted report, ONR accepted that breaching the waste storage limits for 16 months would lead to a “modest increase in hazard”.",NA
"Creating thousands of long-term highly skilled jobs directly within the energy industry and throughout the supply chain, the prize could be massive.""",NA
Tepco pumps out 400 tonnes of water a day of groundwater into the basements of damaged reactor buildings.,NA
"But I will bet my socks that half a century from now our children will depend heavily on nuclear power to keep their lights burning - because there will be nothing else that is clean, affordable and works.",NA
"The figure was described as shocking by critics of the scheme, who said it showed just how volatile and uncertain the project had become, given that the same energy department’s estimate 12 months earlier had been £14bn.",NA
"Within hours of starting he was violently ill, having caught a dose of water pollution.",NA
And one of the things Fukoshima has done for me is to show that the side-effects of nuclear power are less grave than I had imagined them to be in a disaster of this magnitude.,NA
"Potential investors have been drawn by the UK government’s enthusiasm and a nuclear standstill elsewhere, amid lingering safety fears in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and cost overruns at the Flamanville site in France which is using a new reactor design.",NA
"Poulsen said he was confident that his company could reach UK government goals of bringing down costs, to survive comfortably on 15-year contracts at £85 per MW-hour by the mid 2020s.",NA
This can only be done using robots because the area is so radioactive that any human being entering it would die.,NA
A sense of security when it comes to atomic reactors is no longer possible.,NA
The emergency measures announced on Tuesday do not address the wider problem created by the need to constantly cool the damaged reactors and the resulting buildup of contaminated water.,NA
"5.05pm: My verdict Meeting the government's decarbonisation targets by 2050 without nuclear power is clearly technically possible, as the various scenarios highlighted today display.",NA
That is why no nuclear plant has ever been bulit without state support.,NA
"He has come to the rational conclusion that, if we want future energy security without relying entirely on fossil fuels, nuclear must be part of the mix.",NA
"But nuclear safety officials said it was unlikely the reactor had suffered serious damage, according to the Kyodo news agency.",NA
"So I hope and pray that, whatever happens with the nuclear power station next door, this unique place will continue to thrive.",NA
"By 5am the fire had been brought under control, but a number of men had been exposed to high radiation levels and lacked even the most basic protection.",NA
"""Nuclear power comes with massive costs attached,"" he said.",NA
This week's utility results are adding to concerns about the cost of closing all 17 of Germany's nuclear reactors by 2022 and making up the shortfall by doubling renewable energy output.,NA
"But traditional energy prices will go through the roof, and technical improvements will bring the cost of clean technologies down dramatically.",NA
"If all goes to plan, the project could not only help the town become self-sufficient in power generation, but revive its role as a tourist destination after visitor numbers plummeted amid lingering fears over radiation.",NA
"Just a few weeks ago, Cuba announced that it will resume the programme in a new facility for the sons and daughters of the victims, who are now showing ailments similar to those of their parents.",NA
The city refuses to buy the older stations because of decommissioning costs and the taxpayer is left with the bill.,NA
"A US diplomat went to see the Libyan foreign minister in alarm and ""described the environmental disaster that could take place … We also are seeking a meeting with Saif al-Islam's aide … in hopes of ensuring that senior Libyan officials understand the grave security and safety risks"".",NA
"From its early promise of electricity ""too cheap to meter,"" it has swallowed billions in public money in research and development and direct subsidy, and still has failed to compete with fossil fuels, or now even with wind power.",NA
"British Nuclear Fuels, which currently stores the foreign waste at Sellafield, said it was delighted by the decision.",NA
"The huge old nuclear complex at Sellafield, Cumbria, is said to face a medium risk of flooding now and later.",NA
"If nuclear power does not make up most of the remainder, the gap will be filled by fossil fuel.",NA
"Even with all of those subsidies, the private sector still will not agree to finance a new nuclear plant, so wealthy nuclear corporations recently secured access to $18.5bn in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees.",NA
"It helps to keep the costs down, he says.",NA
It might even establish a model for other countries contemplating building a nuclear cycle of their own.,NA
2.46pm: I've just received this reaction from a spokesman at the Department of Energy and Climate Change: We need a range of new energy infrastructure to keep the lights on and reduce our carbon emissions in a secure and affordable way.,NA
"More egregious, in Brown’s view, is the failure by international bodies such as the World Health Organisation to interrogate the consequences.",NA
This radioactive isotope takes thousands of years to be rendered safe and dealing with it is the greatest challenge facing nuclear energy's proponents.,NA
"But even if we were to reduce energy consumption by 20 or 30 or 40%, we still have to ask ourselves: where is our energy going to come from?",NA
"The industry argues these increased costs have arisen in the face of ""significant challenges"", but the echoes from this announcement are all too familiar from a sector that has been plagued with industrial and financial incompetence.",NA
"If the answer is no, then the government needs to either progressively shut down the industry or subsidise it.",NA
"* Zogz: ""To be told I'm hysterical because I am not sure of the wisdom of leaving such a legacy demonstrates just how far out of touch the nuclear lobby are from free thinking individuals."" * cheekymnky: ""The plain and simple truth is that a modern economy cannot run on renewable energy (try running a steel plant on wind or solar power).",NA
"Saudi Arabia likely has enough mineable uranium ore reserves to pave the way for the domestic production of nuclear fuel, according to confidential documents seen by the Guardian.",NA
Other nuclear plants being built by EDF in France and Finland are years behind schedule and billions over budget.,NA
"Two of three diesel generators used to drive cooling pumps stopped working at the Tokai 2 nuclear plant, 75 miles north of Tokyo in Ibaraki prefecture.",NA
"Those coal plants pose a much greater threat of pollution, including from heavy metals.",NA
And the reason for opposing new nuclear is now cost rather than safety.,NA
"This, as the government's own Sustainable Development Commission noted, is the achilles heel of any new nuclear development.",NA
"John Walker, the FSB's national chariman: While we welcome the much needed certainty the Energy Bill will give to investors to help secure the UK’s energy supply, we are concerned that small firms will be left exposed to ever increasing energy bills.",NA
"Landslides also dump land into the sea, with places at risk including the Isle of Wight and Devon, he said.",NA
"What's more, the government argues, the taxpayer would then have to take on an even heftier charge for nuclear liabilities (storing/reprocessing waste and decommissioning plants).",NA
"This, then, could lead to a double economic whammy of quite monstrous proportions.",NA
"Uranium enriched for power has a very much lower content of fissile material, Uranium 235, than that used for weapons.",NA
"If there had been a major release we would know about it,"" said Gerry Thomas, a molecular pathologist and director of the Chernobyl tissue bank at Imperial College London.",NA
"BE and other generators - including Powergen and the American-based companies TXU and AES- have found that they cannot sell power for a profit, and have respectively mothballed plants, gone into administration or arranged standstills with their creditors.",NA
"In the best-case scenario, the storage pools do not overheat and engineers manage to pump cold seawater into the damaged reactors over the coming days and gradually bring them down to a safe temperature, when they can be put into cold storage.",NA
"In the longer term, better options may materialise.",NA
"The government announced in December that the plant had reached ""cold shutdown"" – a safe state achieved when temperatures inside the reactors stay below boiling point and radioactive leaks are kept to a minimum.",NA
Ghostly layers remind us of the radioactivity still haunting these sites decades after nuclear activity was officially concluded.,NA
"His successor, Yoshihiko Noda, has argued in favour of restarting reactors deemed safe to avoid electricity shortages this summer.",NA
"The pills, he claims, will stop radioactive contaminants attaching themselves to the DNA of Japanese children.",NA
Former Conservative energy secretary Lord Howell has criticised the Hinkley deal as “one of the worst deals ever” for British consumers and industry and has protested against “endless government guarantees for risk-free returns to the investors”.,NA
We can't wish the waste away.,NA
As the nuclear expert Prof Sue Ion says: “It is a fallacy to think we can provide the UK’s energy with intermittent renewables alone.”,NA
"However, Mr Darling said he believed it would be a ""profound mistake"" to rule out nuclear power given the twin demands of security of supply and the need to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.",NA
The move came after four years of power cuts which left most of the population without heating through the winters.,NA
"Under one alternative, the Tc-99 element could be redirected and treated in isolation, turning it into glass blocks that are safe for storage.",NA
The bottom line is that we don't believe BNFL can produce high quality nuclear fuel.,NA
"If the Iranian regime is going to hanker for nuclear weapons capability no matter what, would we prefer to have its activity completely unsupervised and unknown?",NA
Hinkley Point C marks a new high watermark in public sector extravagance.,NA
"The people at the sharp end of this mismanagement are the 10,000 ordinary working men and women on the site.",NA
"He will argue that replacing the existing reactors will be equivalent to investment ""three times the size of the project to build Terminal 5 at Heathrow"", but that the economic benefits could be far greater if Britain went further.",NA
"About 100,000 people in and around the evacuation zone were forced to leave their homes; some have no idea when, or if, they will be able to return.",NA
"'Some years ago there was an issue with the handling of a flask of hydrogen, which ended in a deflagration [explosion].",NA
"The state has promised to remove all the contaminated soil from Fukushima after 30 years, and government officials have been scrupulous in insisting that this will be the case – for soil.",NA
"But Butler said that almost all of the proposed reactor sites since 1968 were near residential communities, noting that some locations – such as Townsville – had been proposed twice.",NA
It also provides price certainty in a volatile market.,NA
"Even if it doesn't, nuclear power would still only account for a reduction of around 4% in our CO2 emissions sometime around the mid 2020s.",NA
"The widespread perception is that the four measures put forward are knowingly intended to raise the price of electricity to a point where the government can get by without breaking both the commitment made by Chris Huhne, the energy and climate change secretary, to have no public subsidy of nuclear power – and European rules on state aid.",NA
"As Mr Bolkestein pointed out, without real policy change the EU will move from the present 50% reliance on energy imports (mainly from the Middle East and Russia) to 70% by 2030.",NA
"""We have been transparent right from the start and will continue to give accurate information about radiation levels and their possible impact on health,"" he said.",NA
"“The smaller size of the reactors may allow for more flexible deployment, making nuclear electricity available to isolated areas or countries with small or distributed electricity grid systems that cannot support conventional large-scale nuclear power.”",NA
He also highlighted the Easington gas terminal – one of the biggest in Europe – as being in a very vulnerable position.,NA
These cause a series of knock-on effects that can impair control of the nuclear reaction.,NA
"Its price on global markets has collapsed, from a record $136 a pound in 2007 to just $44 last week – a slump so severe that some of the world's biggest miners have decided they're better off leaving the mineral in the ground.",NA
"The five-tonne cargo of plutonium mixed oxide fuel (mox) was sent back from Takahama in Japan after safety records at Sellafield, which is operated by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), were exposed as false in 1999.",NA
We have 97 [nuclear] plants operating and the amount of waste is only going to grow.,NA
"""We should be getting out of nuclear power as quickly as possible.",NA
"More than 100 of the world's reactors are already sited in areas of high seismic activity and many of 350 new stations planned for the highly volatile Pacific rim where earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural hazards are certain to happen.",NA
I don’t think anyone here would advocate an industry that only survives because of a subsidy paid by the billpayer.”,NA
"""The UK must aim to become the world's number one location for new nuclear investment.""",NA
News of the problems at one of China’s first commercial nuclear power plants only reached neighbouring Hong Kong weeks after the mistake was discovered on 14 September 1987.,NA
The best answer to Britain's needs is a massive expansion of renewable energy.,NA
"It has no use for the 2.5 tonnes produced so far, and claims a further 22.5 tonnes of useless fuel could emerge over the next 20 years.",NA
"Following a reassessment of decommissioning facilities at Sellafield last year, BNFL became technically bankrupt when its long term liabilities exceeded its assets.",NA
"The future of Britain’s power supply has been jeopardised by Brexit and the government must act urgently to ensure nuclear power stations stay open, MPs have warned.",NA
"That's 400 half-lives, meaning that every single atom of it should have decayed by now.""",NA
"Before starting down the nuclear route promoted by Tony Blair at Labour's conference, ministers need a proper comparative analysis of nuclear's hidden carbon emissions.",NA
The nuclear lobby must be pleased he has forgotten that a prime motivation for the UK civil nuclear programme was the need to produce plutonium for UK and US nuclear weapons.,NA
"Even when the cost of providing back-up capacity for still days is added, the cost of producing energy from offshore wind is little more than £70/MWh.",NA
Even modest increases in oil prices will convert unproven resources into recoverable reserves.,NA
"A group of Labour, Lib Dem and SNP MPs warn in a letter published in today's Guardian that ""we should not be politically panicked into accepting a technology that poses a continuing risk in terms of weapons proliferation and terrorism, produces a toxic waste for which no management solution is agreed, benefits from hidden subsidies and tends to undermine the prospects of renewable energy and efforts to increase efficiency"".",NA
Long-Bailey said: “The potential benefits of transitioning to a sustainable economy are enormous and we want to make sure these are shared by everyone … the Tories are not up to the job of dealing with the existential threat posed by climate change.”,NA
"The government's performance and innovation unit calculated that, by 2020, offshore and onshore wind could generate electricity at 1.5p to 2.5p per kWh and 2p-3p/kWh respectively, but nuclear would be 3p-4p/kWh.",NA
"Schafhausen remains realistic about the future: ""There is no doubt that the power price to the consumer will increase, but we will implement our energy transformation step-by-step and therefore have only a small increase.""",NA
"The facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said atmospheric readings as high as 530 sieverts an hour had been recorded inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2, one of three reactors that experienced a meltdown when the plant was crippled by a huge tsunami that struck the north-east coast of Japan in March 2011.",NA
Just as the toxic substances released by Chernobyl’s reactor were never destroyed.,NA
"We need to seriously consider the potential for a combination of events like those in Japan earlier this year – a natural disaster (or two), infrastructure failure and the human migration that would inevitably occur in its wake.",NA
"The government is known to favour EDF because of its expertise in operating nuclear plants, which provide 80% of France's energy.",NA
"Privatised in 1996, BE provides more than a fifth of Britain's power needs, employs 5,200 people in Britain and 3,000 in Canada, and owns eight nuclear reactors in Britain.",NA
"In total, financial losses were estimated at over $50bn.",NA
A low-carbon future is essential.,NA
These claims are so profoundly entrenched that it is almost accepted as common knowledge that the Chernobyl disaster killed thousands.,NA
The private sector would also build hospitals more cheaply.,NA
"""Britain has no choice but to gamble with extending the safety limits of the country's ageing fleet of nuclear power plants to avoid the looming spectre of 1970s-style blackouts,"" said Lucas.",NA
It is clear from last time there is significant community opposition.”,NA
"And it is absolutely critical that we understand this is not just a challenge, it's an opportunity, because if we create a new energy economy, we can create 5 million new jobs, easily, here in the United States.",NA
"He questions whether uranium, the primary resource needed for nuclear power, will come from secure sources in the medium term.",NA
Two workers at the plant died when they disregarded safety procedures and dumped a large quantity of uranium into a settling basin.,NA
Nordic countries have become increasingly alarmed at evidence that marine currents have carried radioactive materials from Sellafield into their fishing grounds.,NA
The nuclear industry argues that no single low carbon source could meet the UK’s power needs alone.,NA
Ditching new nuclear would require a huge increase in the amount of wind and solar power already expected in coming years.,NA
"EDF has been hit by falling power prices, cost overruns on other projects, and demands to upgrade French nuclear reactors to make them safer.",NA
May 2005 A leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel forces the closure of Sellafield's Thorp reprocessing plant.,NA
"It has huge costs and lots of complications, including the issue of waste and final storage.""",NA
"Instead, the apparent loss of material was a result of inaccuracies in tracking it through nuclear plants.",NA
A Unscear spokesman in Vienna said the six workers' deaths had been caused by accidents and health problems that preceded their time at the plant.,NA
"A terrorist attack on Sellafield could render the north of England uninhabitable and release 100 times the radioactivity produced by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, the House of Commons defence committee was told yesterday.",NA
"However, a major fire broke out in a reactor chimney a year later, spreading radioactivity across the surrounding countryside in what is generally thought to have been the world's worst nuclear accident before that at Three Mile Island in the US in 1979.",NA
News that the North's uranium enrichment programme may be more widespread than previously thought could add to fears that the regime is seeking to augment its plutonium stockpile.,NA
"The prime minister did not directly mention the need for at least eight medium-sized power stations, each generating about 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to replace the 10 gigawatts supplied by nine existing plants, all but one of which are due to become obsolete by 2023.",NA
"Thousands of people had been evacuated from their homes on Friday after the Japanese government declared a nuclear emergency, and the trade minister admitted that a radiation leak was a distinct possibility as concerns mounted that the cooling system at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station had failed, with grave implications for the integrity of hundreds of tonnes of radioactive fuel at the site.",NA
"The atomic lobby sometimes tries to pass off this woeful track record as ancient history, but it is not – just ask the Finns.",NA
"According to the local authorities, the concentration of radioactivity in the water is negligible, at below 1 becquerel per litre, and poses no risk to the health of sunbathers and swimmers.",NA
"Areva, the French company pushing to have its nuclear reactor design adopted in Britain, has been accused of a ""lack of professionalism"" by safety authorities overseeing a prototype under construction in Finland, a leaked letter shows.",NA
"The threat of nuclear war was, for many decades, the primary existential threat to humanity.",NA
A United Nations committee has asked the UK to suspend work on the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset because of the government’s failure to consult with European countries over the project.,NA
This repository could also house waste from new civil nuclear power stations.,NA
"Windfarms are running into massive public opposition, not least because of the new power lines required to connect them to the grid.",NA
"Increased energy consumption, especially for transport, must not be treated as some unstoppable force of nature.",NA
"Years before the catastrophe, a KGB report highlighted flaws in the RBMK reactor.",NA
"After Fukushima, it can no longer be viewed as a viable energy source for the future.",NA
The three men who went in all died within two weeks.,NA
It is through such collusion that accidents happen.,NA
"Although the accident at Fukushima raised global awareness about the lasting, overwhelming dangers to human beings of radioactive contamination, the money that the energy lobby sees in building more nuclear facilities is just too good to rein in, catastrophe or no catastrophe.",NA
"Fukushima prompted the UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation to conduct a safety review in which Mike Weightman, its chief inspector, concluded there were no fundamental safety weaknesses, although his report identified 38 areas for improvement.",NA
"But the fact remains, actual danger from nuclear plants is rare.",NA
"An inquiry report into the accident makes clear that the breaches relate to failures by the company to make and comply with written instructions, and ensure that safety systems were in good working order and leaks were detected.",NA
"If enriched to a high concentration of the fissile U-235 isotope, uranium can also be turned into the explosive core of an atomic bomb.",NA
"He thinks the cost of decommissioning and waste storage for future plants will be much lower, about 5%-10% of the total cost.",NA
We urgently need to end this addiction.,NA
"Due to repeated delays, Hinkley C is unlikely to produce electricity much before 2030, by which time six Hinkleys’ worth of electricity could have been cut from the national demand, according to a McKinsey report for the government.",NA
So the arguments for nuclear don't stack up.,NA
So much is still unknown.,NA
"Britain has huge, empty North Sea oil fields which many geologists and energy experts believe would be ideal for storing liquefied carbon dioxide.",NA
Two decades of under-investment in our energy infrastructure has left a dirty and decaying system.,NA
"Devine-Wright said other countries had handled the issue much better: ""There is a growing presumption in the UK that onshore wind is dodgy, but there is no reason why it should be that like that.",NA
"The expansion is necessary to fill the gap left by fossil fuels such as coal and gas, which the government has pledged to phase out to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.",NA
"Wind power can only make a modest contribution, but investment in wave and tidal power at a level likely to be involved in building new nuclear plants would a) give a faster build-up of energy supplies, b) be a secure long-term source of supply with minimum adverse environmental impact, and c) be a boost to opportunities for engineering exports.",NA
The NDA initially dismissed fast reactors as being decades from commercial viability.,NA
"Secondly, nuclear cannot slash our carbon emissions while delivering energy security because nuclear provides such a tiny part of our energy requirements - just 3% at present, and falling.",NA
"The focus on CCS is not because the technology has advanced a great deal in recent years, said Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and vice-chair of the IPCC, but because emissions have continued to increase so quickly.",NA
"Renewable energy capacity will overtake nuclear power in the UK by 2018, if current rates of growth continue, and will provide enough power for one in 10 British homes by 2015, according to new research.",NA
"“What is needed now is for work at Hinkley Point C to get under way as soon as possible, as this will unlock extensive opportunities along the massive supply chain required, and will benefit sectors including construction, industrial, offices and hospitality.”",NA
"Davey will be hoping that the green movement in his party, faced by the threat of climate change, recognises that one more generation of nuclear stations are necessary before it can be replaced by renewable technology.",NA
"A new station, says Mr Francis, would meet little opposition, there's land available, and planning consent was given - but allowed to lapse - in the 1990s.",NA
"For nuclear weapons it is also the only feasible, practical option at this time.”",NA
"""We need to continue our dependence on nuclear power at least in the intermediate phase until renewables really come on stream substantially.""",NA
BNFL hopes that once the Mox fuel is safely back in the Sellafield plant in Cumbria it can go back to Japan and secure large new orders for fuel to power the Japanese nuclear industry.,NA
"Water in a pool for storing spent fuel was reaching boiling point, raising the possibility that spent fuel rods could be exposed in turn releasing further radiation, said an official from the nuclear safety agency.",NA
"As Al Gore recently pointed out, Iran once again shows the close association between nuclear energy projects and serious worries about the proliferation of nuclear weapons.",NA
He said nuclear power was France's best answer to soaring energy prices and global warming.,NA
"Radiation levels hover around 62.3 microroentgens an hour (0.62 microsieverts): just over twice the normal background radiation in London, and less than going through an airport security scanner three times – which makes Pripyat safe enough for a brief visit, but not long-term habitation.",NA
"British Energy was privatised in 1996, raising £1.5bn for the Tory government's coffers.",NA
"Within a decade, 1.2 million people in the UK will be employed in the green sector as a result of the investment decisions we are taking.",NA
"Safety is, and will always be, our number one priority.""",NA
There is no support for nuclear in Scotland and an alternative energy supply is required.,NA
"By the time I was born, the radiation was embedded in the fabric of the village.",NA
Because the economics of nuclear only work at scale.,NA
"Nuclear critics, like the former energy secretary Chris Huhne, argue that nuclear energy is a tried and failed technology which has needed hundreds of billions of pounds of state subsidies and sweeteners but still generates expensive and dangerous energy.",NA
"Nearly 370 farms in Britain are still restricted in the way they use land and rear sheep because of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident 23 years ago, the government has admitted.",NA
"Germany aside, the conclusion has been that nuclear is a ""nosepeg"" solution: we might not instinctively like the smell of it, but, given the predicted looming energy and climate crises ahead, we have little choice but to push ahead – as long as we learn the hard lessons of Fukushima.",NA
"It is fiercely opposed by the Western Shoshone peoples, Nevada state and others.",NA
"""At a time when the world is supposed to be decreasing the nuclear arsenal, our government is talking about producing nuclear triggers again.",NA
"The minutes disclose that breaches of safety regulations at Magnox nuclear stations had led to three enforcement notices against BNFL in recent months, the most serious for releases of radioactive Carbon 14 into the atmosphere from Hinkley Point A station in Somerset.",NA
"US secretaries of energy enthuse that the four new reactors will be completed ""on time and on budget"", never mind that they are already behind and over and that ""on budget"" will mean ""well above the cost of creating equivalent low carbon energy more sensibly"".",NA
"Old coal-fired stations are finally shutting down, and the risk is that we don’t have the modern infrastructure in place to ensure a stable supply of the electricity needed to run our homes, offices and industries.",NA
The agreement came about after Ireland took Britain to court under the UN convention on the law of the sea after complaints that discharges from the plant into the Irish Sea were polluting their fishing industry.,NA
"According to Sir Peter Williams, vice-president of the Royal Society, there is widespread concern about how the UK will be able to meet the skills needs involved with building new nuclear power stations.",NA
Close to 2 million people in Fukushima are living in areas where the annual radiation dose exceeds the one millisievert per year safety target set by the government for the general population.,NA
Finland has recently committed to building a new reactor.,NA
"Charles Secrett, of Friends of the Earth, said: ""It is outrageous that the government thinks it can get away with using Alice in Wonderland economics to justify giving this MOX plant the go-ahead.",NA
"As a result of our focus on safety, none of our neighbours has been put at risk by our operations.""",NA
French-owned EDF has been at pains to claim that – wherever possible - it will use local people and companies to build and operate Hinkley C.,NA
Levels [of radiation] are much too low.,NA
"The electricity distribution system also needs to be re-engineered to accommodate small- and medium-scale embedded generation, from local combined heat and power plants to solar PV tiles on domestic roofs.",NA
"A lack of investment in new power plants plus an accelerating closure programme for existing sites has meant spare capacity to deal with surges in demand caused by cold weather, gas import interruptions or plant failures has fallen from about 25% in the early 1990s to 5%-10% this year.",NA
"Conservatives argue that in its current form, it encourages the sector to focus on a few technologies, such as onshore wind farms and methane from landfill, to the exclusion of others.",NA
Our party stood at the general election on a manifesto promise to oppose plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants because it is a far more expensive way of reducing carbon emissions than promoting energy conservation and renewable energy.,NA
· A report from influential consultancy Oxera concludes that a programme to build new nuclear reactors in the UK will be economically viable only with government assistance.,NA
"The site's tanks, basements and pits contain an estimated 338,000 tonnes of tainted water.",NA
"From ""too cheap to meter"" to safe as houses, every pledge has been broken.",NA
"As a “voluntary” evacuee, Noriko Matsumoto is among those who will have their subsidies withdrawn at the end of this month, forcing them to make a near-impossible choice: move back to homes they believe are unsafe, or face financial hardship as they struggle on living in nuclear limbo.",NA
"The remaining 87 have suffered other complications, including four cases of solid cancer and two of leukaemia.",NA
"That little footnote, tucked away at the end of the announcement of Wednesday’s French-Chinese deal to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley point, detonates an atomic bomb under the UK government’s already bewildering energy policy and leaves ministers hunkered down in a nuclear bunker.",NA
"The chancellor, George Osborne, revealed on Wednesday that at least £250m will be spent by 2020 on an “ambitious” programme to “position the UK as a global leader in innovative nuclear technologies”.",NA
"A solar farm 100 miles by 100 miles could supply energy for the whole of Europe, but terrorists would blow it up.""",NA
"But the turning of the popular tide against nuclear has sent policymakers back to the drawing board, and risks leaving Japan’s climate change efforts in tatters.",NA
"In May this year, the clean-up operation on the gutted reactor was deemed complete.",NA
He pointed to fundamental weaknesses in Japan's readiness to deal with a disaster as serious as the 14-metre tsunami that caused three of Fukushima Daiichi's reactors to go into meltdown.,NA
The radioactive substances released suggest at least part of the core in reactor 1 has broken down.,NA
The release of radioactive substances from the plant continued to cause anxiety in Tokyo.,NA
LFTRs aren't the only way to use thorium to create energy.,NA
"Iberdrola was interested in further investment in the UK energy market, where about a third of the electricity generation needs to be replaced over the next 10 years.",NA
"South Africa, the greenies argued, just needs to get with the times and build more sustainable power solutions.",NA
"“What we do, our everyday habitation of an area – agriculture, forestry – they’ve damaged wildlife more than the world’s worst nuclear accident,” said Prof Jim Smith, professor of environmental science, University of Portsmouth, and one of the paper’s authors.",NA
"A worker at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has died after falling into an empty water storage tank, in the latest of a series of accidents at the site of the worst nuclear disaster for a quarter of a century.",NA
"This investment is directly funding projects run by SMEs to design technologies to detect vibrations from rotating equipment to improve the safety of nuclear plants, measure the extent of radioactive contamination in concrete, which cuts the risk of demolishing old nuclear facilities, and even developing an early warning system to prevent the blockage of cooling systems by jellyfish blooms.",NA
"“We’re insuring it, so if there is a disaster, it comes back to the public,” says Molly Scott Cato, the MEP.",NA
"At Kumamachi primary school, just two kilometres from the wrecked nuclear plant, classrooms appear frozen in time, with books, bags and other possessions abandoned when the order to evacuate was given.",NA
The energy company said it had spent more than £125m completing the “most extensive investigation of the reactor core that has ever been undertaken” to prove the Hunterston plant’s safety.,NA
"The Thorp plant has been closed for 17 months following a leak of 83,000 litres of radioactive liquid, which led to BNG being fined £2m for safety lapses The subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels has repeatedly expressed confidence that the plant will be brought back into service within months but now admits the timetable has slipped to next year.",NA
"Luc Oursel, a president at Areva, said despite the Flamanville problems and rising costs and delays at the Olkiluoto plant in Finland still made commercial sense.",NA
"""Had other Japanese been in the shoes of those who bear responsibility for this accident, the result may well have been the same.""",NA
Instead the revenues should be kept for cleaning up decommissioned reactors or for building new ones.,NA
There is enough potential in renewables for our energy requirements.,NA
"The groups, which include the Woodland Trust and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, said Harrington risked undermining “long-established protections” afforded to national parks by comparing the prospect of a deep nuclear waste facility to a potash mine in North Yorkshire.",NA
"The government's claim was that nuclear was needed to keep the lights on and to help meet Britain's climate change commitments, and they also said that there would be no public subsidies and that the nuclear waste problem was perfectly manageable.",NA
"Despite growing worldwide concern about the safety of nuclear plants – Germany has announced it is phasing its nuclear plants out — Sarkozy said the moratorium on new nuclear reactors adopted by some countries since the Japanese nuclear crisis in March ""makes no sense"".",NA
"“Because in the long term, they’ll use up all the uranium.”",NA
"A new generation of nuclear power stations will get the go-ahead if they can meet a series of tests set by the government, the trade and industry secretary will tell MPs tomorrow.",NA
Not a single planning or licence application has ever been turned down in the industry's history.,NA
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means increasing electricity production.,NA
"Ozersk and the surrounding region is one of the most contaminated places on the planet, referred to by some as the “graveyard of the Earth”.",NA
"In the short term, it will create thousands of construction jobs as the new power station is built and in the long term it will secure work for those already employed at Wylfa and nearby,"" said Fowlie.",NA
"In the long run, nuclear power will become more expensive, while renewable energy will become cheaper.",NA
"Subsidies have recently been boosted for offshore windfarms, while clean coal is at least 15 years from being viable.",NA
"Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica said: ""We welcome the idea of a UK mechanism to achieve higher carbon prices, following the principle that the polluter pays.""",NA
"""There is a falling trend (in water levels) but we have not confirmed an exposure of nuclear fuel rods,"" he said.",NA
"He was backed by the interior minister, Manuel Valls, who said nuclear was undeniably a part of the future of French industry.",NA
Critics though raise the prospect of the British waste being hijacked by terrorists.,NA
"In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the new trade and industry secretary gave a blunt warning to householders and local councils that they had to support new power projects in Britain - or the lights would go out.",NA
"Also opposing the development, the bird conservation group RSPB expressed concern over predicted levels of fish loss on the marine birds that feed on them.",NA
This will make natural gas electricity even more expensive.,NA
"On Today, the BBC's Jim Naughtie, reporting from Tokyo, has been saying the Japanese government has misled its people on nuclear matters in the past – as did our own authorities after the Windscale disaster in Cumbria in 1957 – and is not trusted.",NA
"Both these issues (as well as concerns about proliferation and security) could be addressed through the replacement of conventional nuclear power with thorium or integral fast reactors but, partly as a result of public resistance to atomic energy, neither technology has yet been developed.",NA
"Greenpeace’s executive director, John Sauven, said there were very real concerns about handing over the keys to our future energy security to companies run by foreign governments.",NA
"Greenpeace has described the project as a “nuclear Titanic” and “Chernobyl on ice”, at a time when popular attention to the threat of nuclear accidents has been stoked by the popular HBO miniseries Chernobyl, dramatising the nuclear disaster of 1986.",NA
"The search for a disposal site diverts attention from the real solution for the foreseeable future, which is to ensure the safe and secure management of the unavoidable legacy wastes that have to be managed.",NA
Critics claim that cash for more reactors will undermine renewable and decentralised energy.,NA
It would also help to solve the nuclear waste problem by using that material as fuel.,NA
"The projected cost of safely storing radioactive material at Britain's largest nuclear site in Sellafield has increased by more than £900m in 10 months, the National Audit Office says in a report released on Wednesday.",NA
Critics have repeatedly voiced concerns that costs can rise rapidly if skill shortages arise.,NA
These people have pontificated about bringing the stuff in from outside systems and that would give the kids leukaemia.,NA
"Chris Huhne, the climate and energy secretary, said: ""The report makes clear that the UK has one of the best nuclear safety regimes in the world, and that nuclear power can go on powering homes and businesses across the UK, as well as supporting jobs.",NA
"Banks and other financial institutions already loathed the Hinkley plan, with EDF warned of further credit rating downgrades if it goes ahead, making its huge debt more expensive to maintain.",NA
"It has made a dash for big, costly projects, just as electricity production is moving to a smaller, more dispersed model with the arrival of renewables.",NA
"Martin Forwood, a spokesman for Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment, said: ""It is just a white elephant for the Sellafield area.",NA
"Reactor 4 is now called the ""sarcophagus"", but this tomb is leaking radiation.",NA
The National Trust and 18 other conservation groups have urged ministers to rule out burying nuclear waste below national parks as fears grow that the Lake District is being eyed as a potential site.,NA
"UKAEA admits to more than 1,000 particles being washed ashore.",NA
"Overall, Jones claims, it is much cleaner than fossil fuel-fired power plants, which burn coal, petroleum or natural gas to heat the water, and a much ""greener"" energy source.",NA
"""You don't know what effects radiation will have 10 or 20 years down the line.",NA
Engineers are still battling to prevent further leaks from the four damaged reactors and pools of highly radioactive spent fuel.,NA
"The government's energy white paper left new nuclear power plants open as an option, but recent leaks and hints have suggested atomic energy could make a comeback as part of the battle against climate change.",NA
Johnson claimed the levels of plutonium are so minute that there is no health risk to the public.,NA
"The country should press ahead with building a new generation of atomic power stations to suck in investment and create jobs, British Energy said yesterday.",NA
"The meeting follows weeks of bad news for the industry, including shut-downs, cost over-runs and falling profits.",NA
Scargill claims that the closure of most of the UK's coal plants has not been accompanied by lower carbon emissions.,NA
"In a sharp rebuke to pro-nuclear advocates who have argued that the accident produced very few extra cancers, it argues that it is wrong to focus solely on cancer as an outcome of Chernobyl.",NA
"The next couple of sentences will doubtless prompt the odd angry response, but what the hell: over the last couple of decades, the plant has cleaned up its act, engaged with its critics, and arrived at a point where cries of alarm from the usual suspects can usually be confidently dealt with (Greenpeace, for example, has drawn attention to traces of Sellafield fission products detectable in Scottish salmon - though the Food Standards Agency says that, even at the highest concentrations they've found, you would have to eat 700 portions of salmon a day for a year to reach the annual permitted EU radiation dose).",NA
"And going into commercial premises too, so that small businesses also save money.""",NA
"The Hinkley nuclear power deal contains a “poison pill” which could leave taxpayers with a £22bn bill if a future UK government closed the plant before 2060, according to an official document seen by the Guardian.",NA
"In a damning report, the NAO also said there could be potential liabilities for disposing of spent fuel and meeting claims in the event of a nuclear accident, meaning renewable energy sources may be a cheaper option.",NA
"Each nuclear power plant could take around $10bn and 10 years to develop and build, said Matt Crozat, NEI’s senior director of business policy.",NA
"Nuclear is not carbon-free, nor is it renewable.",NA
"Building a new generation of gas-fired stations would, almost certainly, mean missing the legally binding targets for reducing carbon emissions.",NA
Two attempts to build the same reactor in France and Finland are miles over budget and behind schedule.,NA
Wind power alone added some 15 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity last year - significantly more than the 2GW added by nuclear.,NA
Two reactors of the EPR (European Pressurised Reactor) type to be built at Hinkley are under construction in France and Finland but are years behind schedule and billions of euros over budget.,NA
The issues identified by the environment watchdog in its early assessments of the plans for the site at Bradwell-on-Sea include concerns over how China General Nuclear Group (CGN) will dispose of radioactive waste.,NA
These have higher carbon footprints and enjoy higher subsidies than renewables.,NA
"As power levels were lowered in preparation for the test, they dropped too low and the reactor ground to a halt.",NA
"""Our first and biggest priority at this moment is to prevent the nuclear power plant accident from worsening further,"" he said.",NA
The numbers throw up questions over just how clean some suppliers with green credentials are - only Good Energy is 100% sourced from renewables such as wind and waterpower.,NA
He also refused any direct help with the £63bn estimated cost of decommissioning nuclear waste.,NA
"The government radiation watchdog, Comare (committee on medical aspects of radiation in the environment) said it agreed with Cerrie that the available data did not support a ""speculative hypothesis"" that risks had been radically underestimated.",NA
Ministers believe the economics of nuclear energy are improving as gas and oil prices rise.,NA
The Germans too had been sent fuel with false documentation and worse still it had been burning away in one of their reactors since 1996.,NA
"The meltdowns were the result ""of collusion between the government, the regulators and [energy company] Tepco, and the lack of governance by said parties,"" said the official report, released on Thursday.",NA
"The British arm of the German-owned business, RWE nPower, said it was intending to make a ""multibillion-pound investment"" that could provide light and heat for 5m homes from 2017.",NA
"""We need nuclear like a hole in the head,"" he warned.",NA
"People understand that, and accept the logic that if old ones are shutting down, then new ones need to be built.",NA
Imagine a scenario where an extensive nuclear programme of construction is under way in the UK and a reactor elsewhere suffers a serious accident with the release of radiation.,NA
King urged the prime minister to back GM and nuclear energy to tackle the major challenges of the 21st century.,NA
"""The dilutional factor could not be better – there's no better place.",NA
"Acid containing about 20 tonnes of uranium and 160kg of plutonium escaped from a damaged pipe at the thermal oxide reprocessing plant, Thorp, at the Sellafield site, about 11 miles south of Whitehaven in Cumbria.",NA
"Officials agreed a price of £92.50 per megawatt hour in 2013 but fossil fuel price projections fell between then and the contract being signed in 2016, pushing the cost to consumers up fivefold from £6bn to £30bn.",NA
"In another - much better informed - speech last week to the annual meeting of the parliamentary renewable and sustainable energy group, US energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins put it appositely: ""If nuclear power is the answer, you have asked the wrong question.""",NA
"At 3.41pm on 11 March 2011, just as the first of multiple reports claiming a giant tsunami had come ashore were starting to arrive, the Japanese government received a call from an official at the Tokyo Electric Power Company: ""We have a first-level emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.""",NA
"The government is committed to decarbonising electricity generation by 2030, as well as slashing overall carbon dioxide emissions by 80% by 2050.",NA
"Some companies are also creating or seeking planning permission for additional storage capacity which will allow them to buy gas in the summer when it is cheaper, store it and then sell it at higher winter prices.",NA
"The problem of disposing of radioactive waste – that's never really been solved yet, has it?",NA
"Further, we can’t rely too heavily on imported gas.",NA
"At the same time, the most dangerous waste will be vitrified ready for disposal.",NA
"The power plants generating electricity in England, Scotland and Wales produced only 39g of carbon dioxide for every kilowatt-hour of electricity on Monday, according to National Grid’s electricity system operator, the lowest carbon intensity recorded since National Grid records began in 1935.",NA
British Energy cannot easily cut costs - an accident would be blamed on Treasury penny-pinching.,NA
"Some 20,000 people died in the disaster: ""During the first week of the accident, I thought several times that we were all going to die,"" plant chief Masao Yoshida said.",NA
"One of the most troubling is strontium-90, which mimics calcium when it gets into the body.",NA
"Second, nuclear generates colossal amounts of toxic waste.",NA
A review of nuclear construction in the US shows that 75 reactors were predicted to cost $45bn (£22.5bn) but the actual cost was closer to $145bn.,NA
"Although tiny by comparison with modern reactors, with a total output of one-tenth of the Sizewell B reactors in Suffolk, it was big enough to give Britain its independent nuclear deterrent.",NA
"""I've never questioned the safety of nuclear,"" she said.",NA
"There are many uncertainties about the renaissance of nuclear power in the UK, particularly surrounding the level of public subsidy, but one thing remains constant: the industry's waste problem hasn't gone away.",NA
The harsh reality is that less nuclear means more gas and coal.,NA
"Few people want to live within sight of a nuclear reactor, however great its contribution to reducing Britain's carbon footprint.",NA
"All forms of human activity, especially industrial, are vulnerable to accidents.",NA
"The government stake has also reduced the guaranteed price of power from the plant, which is paid through subsidies on household energy bills, to around £75-£77 per megawatt hour, the Guardian understands.",NA
"Sellafield is also criticised for taking more than 18 months to fix ""known defects"" with the fire protection systems at the thermal oxide reprocessing plant.",NA
The three reports question the lack of a safety culture in BNFL: on the backlog of high level waste; an increase in safety related incidents in 1999 which led to a full scale audit of operations; and the falsification of data on fuel dispatched to Japan on armed ships.,NA
"Equally though, the analysis that Ilse Tweer conducted for the Green party found claims by the Belgian authorities that reactor defects were created over 30 years ago, probably at the time of manufacture, not credible because sonic tests had not discovered them at the time.",NA
"Polluting coal power stations in Britain have been profiting from the woes of the low-carbon French nuclear industry this month, according to analysis of energy generation data for the Guardian.",NA
The blast tore the roof off the building and damaged surrounding walls.,NA
"""Decommissioning has a 50 to 100 year lifespan but it seems like something reaching the end of it's life so having the new build in there will make the nuclear industry much attractive.""",NA
The National Grid said it too agreed with Armitt that new investment was needed but said it believed the system could cope.,NA
"With the cost of offshore wind predicted to be on par with or cheaper than nuclear by 2020, there is no rationale for distorting policy to prop up the nuclear dinosaur.""",NA
"If the gigantic, risky investment in these nuclear plants were diverted to a green energy industry rush, the rewards would be immense and Britain’s reputation as a vanguard not a laggard on climate change would be invaluable.",NA
"At Jet we go up to 200m degrees and at that temperature the hydrogen nuclei bump in to each other many times, but every 1,000 or so times they fuse.",NA
"In other words, it did not take Old Moore to predict that a halving in the wholesale price of electricity between 2001 and 2002 would drive British Energy to the verge of bankruptcy.",NA
"The report noted that Tepco had not made any safety improvements to the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2002, and had dismissed the possibility of it being hit by a massive tsunami, even though it could not produce supporting data.",NA
"Simply put, nuclear power is ""clean"".",NA
"But it is difficult to weigh the risks of rare yet highly catastrophic events, such as a full nuclear meltdown.",NA
Almost all the attention here has focused on possibilities for diverting nuclear weapons materials like highly enriched uranium and plutonium.,NA
"That has allowed the Government to cut prices through its new trading system (NETA), without prompting bankruptcies among generators or California-style blackouts.",NA
"It is beginning to look like a white elephant, not least because British Energy, the privatised nuclear generator, has considered renegotiating its contracts so spent fuel is stored rather than reprocessed.",NA
"“The proposed new nuclear power station at Bradwell has the potential to have major impacts on the site and surrounding area on the Essex coast, which includes several nationally and internationally designated protected wildlife sites,” said Mark Nowers, the RSPB’s conservation officer for Essex.",NA
"The nuclear generator, privatised in 1996, has been battling for survival since September last year when it first warned it could face insolvency because of the slump in wholesale power prices.",NA
The nuclear industry has been shaken by recent news that the first reactor being constructed in Western Europe for two decades - at Olkiluoto in Finland - is running wildly over budget and causing financial losses for French builder Areva.,NA
The case is another blow to the beleaguered nuclear giant following a series of safety scares over the past three months.,NA
"The toxic water leaks were ""very serious"", Kyodo quoted New Komeito's leader, Natsuo Yamaguchi, as telling Abe at a meeting on Monday.",NA
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"He said every CCS plant would cost about £1bn for the carbon capture technology alone, in addition to the money needed to build the power plant, and about $70 per tonne for dealing with the resulting carbon dioxide on an ongoing basis.",NA
"The UK, along with the Czech Republic, is strongly opposed to setting a new renewable energy goal for 2030, favouring an overall target for greenhouse gas emissions instead – which would entail an ambitious cut of 50% on 1990 levels.",NA
"Instead of having energy bills that pay for the import of non-renewable fossil fuels, Germany is now paying its own citizens to produce, install and maintain their own renewable energy systems.",NA
"And so he vowed to shed some sunlight on the Japanese situation and to assure his viewers that while the earthquake and tsunami are very bad things, the nuclear meltdown is really nothing to work up a sweat about.",NA
"“Over its lifetime Hinkley will produce waste equivalent to 80% of all the waste so far produced in the UK in terms of radioactivity,” he added.",NA
"Pursuing a new programme of nuclear reactors would deny us the opportunity to make the necessary investment in renewable technologies and energy efficiency to meet future energy needs in a viable and sustainable way.""",NA
"And the transport of the fresh nuclear fuel to reactors, and irradiated nuclear fuel from them - in both cases passing through densely populated areas - is another potential target for a terrorist outrage.",NA
"Cuomo has waged an ongoing campaign against the plant’s continued operation, citing “unacceptable” failures, especially the leak of radioactive water in February, but to no avail.",NA
"But he said new nuclear power was “controversial”, the safety implications were much more “dramatic” than with renewables, and the price was “much more difficult [to ascertain]” than when funding solar panels and wind turbines.",NA
"Unlike western reactors, the Chernobyl design did not have a robust containment structure or redundant safety elements.",NA
"Waxing lyrical about jobs created falls flat when you realise that only 900 new permanent jobs will be created, each at a cost to consumers of £800,000 per year.",NA
"The measure, condemned by campaigners as a violation of the evacuees’ right to live in a safe environment, will affect an estimated 27,000 people who were not living inside the mandatory evacuation zone imposed after Fukushima became the scene of the worst nuclear accident in Japanese history.",NA
Even a group called Supporters of Nuclear Energy is now questioning the cost of nuclear to the UK.,NA
"This will make the technologies particularly valuable in the developing world, where the grids that do exist are extremely unreliable and most people still do not have access to electricity.",NA
"Nuclear plants are obliged by the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor the amount of nuclear material passing through their sites, and material unaccounted for must not exceed 1% of the total processed.",NA
The report accepted that replacing all the existing nuclear capacity with new nuclear plants might save 7m tonnes of carbon by the late 2020s - equivalent to around 4% of total UK emissions.,NA
"By using private grid networks, rather than the costly national grid, they have provided heating and electricity whenever people want it and cheaper than the big energy companies could.",NA
This will mean leaving a deadly toxic legacy for future generations - and present a handy target for terrorists or combatants in any future conflict.,NA
"In a damning report released in July, a parliament-appointed panel criticised years of ""collusion"" between Tepco, industry regulators and politicians, and described the disaster as ""manmade"".",NA
"This month’s blast is not believed to have been caused by a nuclear reaction, but by the ignition of rocket fuel being used in the experiment.",NA
Renewable power expanded exponentially under the Tory-Lib Dem coalition elected in 2010 and by 2015 the renewable industries had a turnover of £14.9bn and had reduced wholesale electricity prices.,NA
Being forced to build a second site - especially one dedicated to the new stations - could change the delicate economics of the industry.,NA
"And given that nuclear power is a tried and tested, safe and secure form of low-carbon technology, it would be wrong in principle to rule it out now from playing any role in the UK's energy future.",NA
Nuclear energy faces an uncertain future globally as concerns over safety and cost dog the industry.,NA
"About 70,000 people have been evacuated from a 12-mile (20km) radius around Fukushima Daiichi.",NA
"The cost of wind and solar has dropped significantly, and we know that a nationwide scheme of home insulation would hugely reduce demand, keep people warm in their homes and provide jobs in every constituency for a fraction of the price of Hinkley.",NA
"The Energy Watch report calls this a ""virtual stagnation"" and says ""no arguments are given why the wind sector should suffer such a crisis by 2015 and after"".",NA
"“It is not very dangerous here,” he says.",NA
"Most reactors are regarded as having a life span of around 30 to 40 years, but 44 are said to be operating beyond this limitation already.",NA
"Neither does it take into account the logistics of constructing many plants at the same time, nuclear insiders admit.",NA
"The closer they are to the disaster, the more quickly they die.”",NA
"In the absence of swingeing new international safeguards, particularly on fuel production, he said it was ""ineffective and perhaps immoral"" for the US to promote the sale of nuclear technologies for civilian uses.",NA
"But what I do know is that, with the mechanism we’ve got, it will reduce the cost of supporting low-carbon, in all its different forms, to the lowest imaginable because we are bringing in competition in the market.",NA
"She said nuclear power would be a ""bridge"" that would allow more time for reliable and affordable technologies to be developed.",NA
They have good reasons to worry: accidents at nuclear power stations can cause horrific damage to the environment and the issue of waste disposal has not been resolved.,NA
"""In the long term,"" the chancellor continued, new nuclear should lead to ""lower and more stable energy bills.""",NA
"EDF Energy said it had proved that even in the most extreme conditions, including the unlikely event of an earthquake, its reactors would continue to operate within large safety margins.",NA
"Stern, who led the UN review on the economics of climate change, the Nobel prizewinning economist Paul Krugman and others have made it clear that you must get green to grow – hence the German Greens' call for a ""Green New Deal"" to transform the financial sector, economy, labour market and sustainability.",NA
"Then in 1990 radiation experts, using new epidemiological methods, calculated that up to 200 cases of cancer - including thyroid and breast cancer and also leukaemia - could have been triggered by the fire's emissions.",NA
"By 7pm, Japan's nuclear agency was warning there were two eight-metre holes in the outer building of the unit.",NA
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The condition of the No 3 unit is of particular concern as it contains plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel and would release highly toxic plutonium in the event of a meltdown.,NA
Safety Safety - and vulnerability to terrorist attack - remains a sensitive issue.,NA
"Guided round purring power plants by smiling, white-coated men, I saw chemistry and physics walking hand in hand towards a peaceful, prosperous horizon.",NA
Only last week the Icelandic environment minister was in London making another protest about Sellafield discharges on behalf of the Nordic block.,NA
"The Italians said no in their nuclear referendum.""",NA
"Future investment should be concentrated on storing existing waste, and Mox would only produce an even greater waste problem.",NA
"Hendry is expected to tell the forum in Westminster: ""The coalition agreement clearly sees a role for new nuclear, provided that there is no public subsidy.",NA
"Could we support our current western lifestyle with only ""renewable"" energy?",NA
"The US president can launch nuclear weapons without a state of war, without provocation.",NA
"Iodine-131 halves in radioactivity every eight days, leaving more long-lived radioactive substances behind, such as caesium-137.",NA
"An energy review carried out by her in 2002 ruled out new nuclear reactors in the short term, whilst renewables would serve 10% of energy needs by 2010 and 20% by 2020.",NA
"""The UK's chief nuclear inspector's interim report concluded that the UK nuclear power industry had reacted 'responsibly and appropriately' to events in Japan, 'displaying a leadership for safety and a strong safety culture'.",NA
"We have generated safely and securely for many years, which is an excellent achievement,” said Stuart Law, the site director.",NA
But nuclear regulators have not required power plants to guard against the risk of solar storms.,NA
"This mechanism penalises fossil fuels but not low-carbon energy sources, such as nuclear and renewables, and the MPs believe it hands a large financial windfall to nuclear power – effectively a subsidy.",NA
"The government has been berating the French, Germans and others for their unwillingness to follow the Anglo-Saxon ideal in which most of the country's energy portfolio was handed over to the private sector and a competitive environment drove down consumer prices (temporarily).",NA
Local campaigners say the plant operators – Kyushu Electric – and local authorities have yet to explain how they would quickly evacuate tens of thousands of residents in the event of a Fukushima-style meltdown.,NA
"Malcolm Grimston, associate fellow and nuclear expert at international affairs thinktank Chatham House, said a private sale of Urenco should not raise concerns about nuclear security, because of tight regulation.",NA
"Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, said: ""We believe that nuclear generation has a valuable role to play in a balanced UK energy mix.",NA
"It will keep the lights on in a way that most renewable energy cannot yet be relied upon to do, although the gap is narrowing as storage technology improves.",NA
The one thing we appear not to have learnt is how to deliver information about radiation risk to an exposed population.,NA
"""The benefits will be that we avoid the worst implications of climate change which are unquantifiable.",NA
"""What is disturbing is that government is failing to understand that the more urgent that dealing with climate change becomes, the less relevant that nuclear power is.",NA
"Trusting Sellafield to comply with the new operating rule to control waste stocks was like asking a fox to guard chickens, he said.",NA
"These reforms will ensure we can keep the lights on, bills down and the air clean.""",NA
"Rather than pausing to reflect on Australia’s role in this toxic trade we have seen deal after deal to supply uranium, often criticised by experts.",NA
"Women living downwind of mudflats which contain discharges from Hinkley Point nuclear power plants in Somerset have double the chance of getting breast cancer, according to research being published today.",NA
So is the idea of placing the waste in subduction zones where one piece of the Earth's crust passes underneath another and heads deeper into the planet.,NA
Thegovernment is keen to keep electricity prices low to reduce household bills and improve industry’s competitiveness.,NA
"Amanda Solloway, the UK’s science minister, said nuclear power “presents transformative possibilities for space exploration”, and could help to create jobs.",NA
"A spokesperson for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: “We are dedicated to reducing our emissions and moving to low carbon energy, but this has to be done in the most cost-effective way for households and businesses.",NA
"The US will either have to ""reduce its aging nuclear power plants or to open American military reserves"" which will only last ""a few years.""",NA
"However, Germany, where 23% of electricity was nuclear, has decided to phase out nuclear power entirely by 2020 while also seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% below 1990 levels.",NA
"In March, the Guardian reported that the Hinkley deal contains a “poison pill” which could leave taxpayers with a £22bn bill if a future UK government closed the plant before 2060.",NA
Anti-nuclear protesters said they were not aiming to hold up the convoy but highlight the failure of the nuclear industry to find long-term solutions to the waste it produces.,NA
Environmental groups and local politicians were angered that the list had been kept secret and said nuclear power should be ruled out as a future energy source.,NA
"Despite Huhne telling parliament he was confident new nuclear reactors would be built, one option shows that the targets could be met even without any new nuclear power plants to replace the current reactors when they go out of service by 2035.",NA
Nuclear takes so long to build that it would be many years before it contributes towards our carbon targets.,NA
"Computer models of the marine environment show the large amounts of radioactive water that escaped into the sea from Fukushima drifted south along the coast of Japan before being caught in one of the largest warm water currents on the planet, the Kuroshio, which drives out to sea at a rate of 75 miles a day.",NA
The German government has made clear that it remains committed to its carbon reduction and renewable energy targets – which are more ambitious than ours – and are driving investment and creating jobs in the sector.,NA
The full odious sequence of events that led to the accident would constitute an entire article.,NA
Giving the fossil fuel industry free “waste disposal” services was the same as giving them a big subsidy.,NA
"On Friday, as on 11 March 2011, the earthquake appeared to have cause minimal damage – testimony to the unrivalled ability of specially designed Japanese buildings to withstand violent seismic activity that could potentially kill thousands in many other countries.",NA
"Furthermore, it produces no environmentally damaging wastes, no carbon dioxide emissions and there could be no accidents that require evacuating the population surrounding a fusion power plant.",NA
"However, not all local residents are opposed to the scheme, and many feel it will bring jobs to an area in which they are much needed and which has lived with nuclear power stations for more than 50 years.",NA
"Wade Allison, professor of physics at Oxford University, disputes this, arguing that there is a threshold of about 200 mSv, below which the body can repair all DNA damage caused and, therefore, which is safe.",NA
Two more nuclear reactors were being built when the explosion happened.,NA
Nuclear experts say it could take 15 years to select a site and a further 15 years to build a repository.,NA
"It even survived the destruction of Japan in the second world war, despite the officialdom that thrived on that ideology having led the country into disaster.",NA
"Unlike Germany, which is now burning more coal because its dash to solar power is mainly aimed at eliminating nuclear rather than tackling climate change, the UK is taking a pragmatic approach that promises to be better for the environment in the longer-term.",NA
"We can bridge the gap between imported oil, which is a national security issue, as well as any other, and it will reduce the price of a barrel of oil, because when people know there's a greater supply, then the cost of that will go down.",NA
For decades governments have fawned over fossil fuels and nuclear power at the expense of renewable power and energy saving.,NA
"Some 90% of the continent’s nuclear plants are set to shut by 2050 – almost half within the next decade – and the paper sets out a daunting picture of the scale of the challenge facing nuclear power: up to €500bn will be needed to meet the cost of new plant builds and lifetime extensions, it says.",NA
"Dr Paul Dorfman, a senior researcher at University College London’s Energy Institute, said that the use of “explosives and modern weaponry close to any nuclear plant” was a cause for worry, even if the explosion would not have caused direct damage to reactors.",NA
It is important that we do everything we can to support the restoration of normal life in these areas whilst always putting safety first.,NA
"Regretfully, I believe it is an illusory answer to the problem of rising greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.",NA
"He has helped build nuclear power plants, but never helped rescued one from catastrophe.",NA
They have also failed to demonstrate alternative options and why nuclear is the most effective way forward.,NA
"The uranium reached critical mass, causing an explosion.",NA
Hinkley is a bad investment and most people with an ounce of financial acumen have now come to realise this.,NA
"It's absolutely clear that we can't depend on expensive and unreliable nuclear power to keep the lights on – we need sustained investment in energy saving and renewables instead.""",NA
"There was no thought given to how they could be cleaned up and how to isolate their wastes.""",NA
"The wave knocked out the facility's back-up power supply, causing three of its six reactors to suffer meltdown.",NA
This is the second time this year that reactors at Torness in East Lothian have been forced to close because of excessive seaweed.,NA
"Of more than 30 British, US and Chinese companies that have expressed an interest in building one in the UK, the majority told the working group that their power stations would be ready to deployed in the 2030s.",NA
"In addition, the stigma of Chernobyl has made it harder for farmers to sell their food.",NA
"Despite unique levels of long-term policy support, this nuclear new-build programme is severely delayed, with no chance of operations beginning as intended “significantly before 2025”, Costs have mushroomed, with even government figures showing renewables like offshore wind to already be far more affordable.",NA
Another went insane and killed himself.,NA
"Their former hometowns have since been turned into temporary dumping grounds for more than 10m black bags containing soil and other low level radioactive waste cleared from areas around homes, schools and other public buildings.",NA
"Tepco is coming under mounting pressure to resolve the worsening water crisis at Fukushima Daiichi, which recently prompted the government to step in with half a billion dollars (£312m) to help contain the build-up of toxic water.",NA
"With the £470m construction costs written off, the plant was assessed by government-appointed consultants in 2001 to have a net positive value of only £216m - a value that was partly based on winning back Japanese business, which proved hard after the falsification of quality-assurance data in 1999.",NA
"However, on the first day of the disaster, the wind was said to be blowing from the east, across the Irish Sea and dusting Ireland in radioactive fallout.",NA
"In 2007, net additions of wind power across the world were more than four-fold the average IEA estimate from its 1995-2004 predictions, the report says.",NA
These could result in carbon savings of between 25m and 42m tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2020.,NA
But he warned that blanket opposition to nuclear power and to windfarms was no answer to meeting future energy needs.,NA
"Thus, the outer APC shell hides another thick ""outer"" shell, which gives way to a steel-lined ""inner containment"" shell, capable of containing explosions to a force of six atmospheres.",NA
But what I've found striking discussing and reading about the technology over the past few years is that no one seems to disagree that it's a good idea.,NA
"“There have long been rumours that the Chernobyl site has abundant wildlife — including carnivores — so I welcome this piece”, said wildlife demographer Tim Coulson, a Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, who was not part of this study.",NA
"But it was the right decision, in light of serious concerns about whether the project represents value for money and the security risks of depending on Chinese investment for a project so critical to long-term national security.",NA
"Hinkley Point nuclear power station, Britain’s biggest construction project since the second world war, is grappling with a mental illness crisis, with several attempted suicides since work began in 2016, a Guardian investigation can reveal.",NA
"The bad news is that in the past three months, Iran did not divert any of its 20% uranium for fuel, so the stockpile kept rising.",NA
"The plant operators said its reading had reached 8,217 microsieverts per hour – described by broadcaster NHK as equivalent to eight times the radiation a person would usually experience in a year.",NA
"But ultimately energy policy must be responsive to public opinion, and as long as people across the world get it so wrong on nuclear risk and continue to ignore the real and rising risks of climate change, the planet is in very serious trouble.",NA
"Instead, Tuesday dawned with the outbreak of fire at a fourth unit – the start of a chain of events in which their worst fears appeared to be coming true.",NA
"The disclosure came as the energy minister, Mike O'Brien, admitted that safety standards at Dounreay had been unacceptable and that measures taken to deal with nuclear waste had been ineffective in protecting the environment.",NA
Its argument is always that it wants to keep energy bills low.,NA
"Why is it less safe to leave uranium several thousand metres below the surface, encased in lead, backfilled with bentonite and capped with concrete than it is to leave it, as nature did, scattered around the planet, just beneath the surface?",NA
"And, of course, critics of nuclear energy regularly raise anxieties about the fate of nuclear waste.",NA
The discovery opened the door to research by scientists around the world and in 1942 the first nuclear reactor was successfully tested at the University of Chicago.,NA
"The Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, described the situation at the plant as ""very serious"", while media reports said that two men who were injured while working on the plant's No.3 reactor on Thursday may have suffered internal exposure to radiation.",NA
Nuclear prices only go up.,NA
"He adds: 'We have got to do everything we can to reduce energy demand, which we must do.'",NA
"""We have 15 million people coming to the park every year, and the prospect of having the world's largest nuclear waste dump could make that considerably fewer.""",NA
"• Davey said the deal, including the ""strike price"" guaranteeing EDF nearly twice the market price for energy generated by the new nuclear power plant, was ""really good value"" for the taxpayer.",NA
"Even if the proposition were to be true, and low gas prices were to ensue, investment in gas-fired generation through the 2020s would offer very limited cost savings.",NA
"To replace them, the government plans to build onshore wind farms providing 20 gigawatts of power and enough off-shore turbines to provide 33 gigawatts by 2020.",NA
"Thirty people died in the blasts and 135,000 were evacuated from the surrounding area.",NA
"""It's not at a level that's harmful to human health.""",NA
"The Pentagon released a video yesterday it claimed was proof North Korea had helped Syria to build a secret nuclear reactor and called it ""a dangerous and potentially destabilising development for the region and the world"".",NA
"In November, a radioactive leak occurred at the Asco 1 plant, but the owners did not tell the CSN, Spain's nuclear watchdog, until April.",NA
"But Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace Germany who regularly visits Fukushima, said a proportion of radioactive tritium had the potential to deliver a concentrated dose to cell structures in plants, animals or humans.",NA
Mr Wicks's review team has to examine the energy gap that Britain faces as ageing coal and nuclear stations close in the next 15 years and the country again becomes dependent on imported fuel.,NA
"Also, the industry was relying on an overlying layer of sedimentary strata to dilute and disperse any groundwater leakage, when the international criteria require such a layer to act instead as a barrier.",NA
"New climate change hazards were likely to emerge slowly giving ""time to develop and implement credible solutions"", said an NDA spokesman.",NA
"The justification for Hinkley C, originally conceived under Labour in 2008 and signed off by the coalition in 2011, is that when it finally comes on stream, perhaps in 2025, it will provide a large amount of carbon-free energy generation – 7% of total demand, which cannot be met by the weather-dependent energy that comes from renewables such as wind or solar.",NA
There had also been rising material costs.,NA
"""We urgently need investment in new and diverse energy sources to power the UK.",NA
"called Radiation Free Lakeland, explains that by arguing in favour of nuclear power, I have ""knowingly and systematically violated"" the Rome statute of the international criminal court and have been deporting, imprisoning and sterilising the world's people.",NA
Around 90 per cent of the waste that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is now wrestling with is at Sellafield.,NA
This year the amount of waste held has already increased by more than 100 cubic metres.,NA
The only disease internationally recognised as directly attributable to Chernobyl is thyroid cancer.,NA
The credibility of the nuclear industry was shaken last night after the estimated cost of cleaning up Britain's atomic waste was raised by a further £10bn.,NA
Ministers warn that renewable sources of energy are not able to provide enough electricity to meet our needs.,NA
"Experts said that while the leak was a cause for concern, radiation would be quickly diluted in the ocean.",NA
"""Every step the UK takes towards building a low-carbon economy reduces our dependency on fossil fuels, and on volatile global energy prices.""",NA
"Homegrown fossil fuels are not an option, nor, for the time being, can Britain's needs be met exclusively by wind farms.",NA
They estimated that sales of xenon could raise £50m a year.,NA
"In 2007 he said: ""Nuclear is a tried, tested and failed technology and the government must stop putting time, effort and subsidies into this outdated industry.""",NA
It would take upwards of 12 years to gain approval for and build new plants.,NA
"There is no need to worry about health risks.""",NA
But one of several hydrogen explosions blew the walls and roof off the reactor building.,NA
"""It's a fact that the levels in reactor No 3 are very high, so we are trying to deal with that by using remote control technologies and staying as far away from the reactor as possible,"" he said.",NA
"British Energy was privatised the year before Labour came to power, but although the nuclear industry has been receiving massive subsidies for 50 years it is still not profitable.",NA
"If the alternative is ruling out a proven method of large-scale electricity generation on the basis of the free market, I'm alright with it.",NA
"The detailed analysis shows that to invest in low-carbon technologies to 2020, then to focus on investment in gas in the 2020s, and to move back to investment in low-carbon generation in the 2030s simply doesn’t stand up.",NA
But there are concerns about terrorist attacks and the ability of future societies to keep managing the waste.,NA
"Polling by YouGov, however, believed to be the first survey of public attitudes towards the plants, found that 62% of people would be unhappy living within five miles of one.",NA
So the guarantees needed for nuclear - in terms of either security of demand or a minimum price - will be quite modest.,NA
"Egremont's town clerk, Margaret Woodburn, said: ""We are used to the safety issue.",NA
"Nick Luff, the finance director of parent company Centrica, said energy costs for this winter and next year had risen significantly.",NA
"""[Hinkley] will generate vast amounts of clean energy and enhance our energy security.",NA
"However, today the nuclear power industry is ready to offer to the market small and medium-yield reactors, which may open-up prospects for a larger number of countries.",NA
"In a study published in Science this month (12 August) British researchers outlined a vision for flexible and more user-friendly nuclear technologies, as worries over the climate change, energy supply security, and depletion of fossil fuels, are overturning decades of hesitancy over the safety of nuclear power plants.",NA
"But this can't work either, as building new nuclear power stations will lock us into a centralised electricity system for the next 50 years, at exactly the time when opportunities for microgeneration and renewables are stronger then ever before.",NA
But these latest figures on Chernobyl fallout gives the lie to these claims.,NA
"Its reprocessing works and plutonium fuel plant are all failing at a massive cost - annually already £100 each for every taxpayer in this country - and this is rising,"" he says.",NA
"But no one can say when, or if, the stirrings of civic life will be seen in the deserted communities around Fukushima Daiichi.",NA
"Among the wreckage, the unpalatable fact is that the electricity produced is not economic and that the scheme has only been kept going by increasingly exotic public subsidies and finance packages (read sub-prime crisis).",NA
It's a very high-risk strategy.,NA
"Mr Jeffrey, who is considering changing BE's name to reflect its growing international presence, said that Britain's hopes of meeting its Kyoto commitments to reduce greenhouse gases would ""fly out of the stack"" if its nuclear plants were progressively shut down.",NA
"A spokesman said: ""Government appears not to believe in renewables sufficiently to turn its 'aspiration' to gain 20% of our power from renewables by 2020 into a firm target.",NA
"AD will be able to provide flexible electric power more cheaply than natural gas because at times when the electricity is not needed, the bio-methane production can be sold to the gas grid.",NA
"“The idea that because this is Fukushima it must be dangerous is completely wrong,” adds Sasaki, who has guided students from the Georgia Institute of Technology and will host a group of Danish high school pupils next year.",NA
"Given the broad, deep nuclear infrastructure Iran is building aggressively, Tehran need merely expel the International Atomic Energy Agency when it chooses to do so, and then move rapidly to weaponization.",NA
Radioactive smoke landing on crops … even 150km or more from the fire can create such concentrations of radiation in food it will be harmful to eat.,NA
We need a huge amount of private capital flowing into our energy system to ensure we keep the lights on in an affordable and sustainable way.,NA
"If the nuclear states ""are failing to fulfil their disarmament obligations"", other nations would use this as an excuse for maintaining their weapons.",NA
"Yet even working in short shifts at this increased level, the radioactivity is so high in some areas, such as the No 3 reactor, that plant managers say humans may never enter again.",NA
"In theory it could do that, but in practice it cannot – not without damaging its reputation for consistent policymaking, and scaring off the other nuclear consortia it will need to build future plants; and they are needed, in order to meet Britain’s climate change obligations.",NA
The practical choice is between coal and gas - major producers of greenhouse gases in the absence of carbon capture and storage - or carbon-free nuclear as energy sources.,NA
EDF benefits from guarantees that the railway's supply of about 3.2TWh of electricity a year will be matched by energy generated from the company's eight nuclear power stations.,NA
"Renewable power has grown in the UK to the point where more electricity was generated from biomass, wind, hydro and solar power in 2015 than nuclear power stations.",NA
"The report found no ""gaps in scope or depth"" in the safety assessment measures for nuclear facilities in the UK, or any ""significant weaknesses"" in the UK nuclear licensing regime.",NA
"The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management delivers its report on long-term disposal options in July, but its interim proposals, published last month, are not encouraging.",NA
"""We will have to keep current nuclear power stations going long past their sell-by date.",NA
"Over four decades, Mayak is said to have dumped 200 million curies of radioactive waste into the environment, equal to four “Chernobyls”, although this is always denied by the authorities.",NA
That is why not a single nuclear power station has been built by private investors anywhere in the world without government subsidy since the disasters at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.,NA
"Yet five years later, windfarms in the northernmost states are producing so much energy that in some cases the state has to pay renewable energy companies to switch off their turbines to stop congesting the power grid.",NA
If there were no alternatives than employing nuclear power to light up a bulb or to reduce carbon emissions then the industry and governments might be forgiven.,NA
BNFL believes it can revive its fortunes by building a series of nuclear stations on both sides of the Atlantic.,NA
The continued operations of the UK nuclear industry are at risk.”,NA
"The main negative health impacts of Chernobyl were not caused by the radiation but by the fear of it, he claimed.",NA
"More than 1,000 radioactive particles, fragments of spent uranium fuel rods about the size of a grain of sand, have been found on beaches and the sea bed around the facility.",NA
"A US company has told British and American authorities that the uranium components have been accumulating in Britain ""in a multitude of dispersed locations, where they pose a growing risk of loss of control, personnel exposure and contamination of the environment"".",NA
"Jean McSorley, nuclear campaigner at Greenpeace, said: ""The public has a right to know where dangerous radioactive waste is going to be dumped, but after years of procrastination Nirex still will not tell the public the truth.",NA
"""The devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is a human tragedy, but we are fortunate in this country not to have seismic activity on the same scale,"" he says.",NA
Some believe it may have a future when the waste problems are resolved and if radical new reactor designs emerge.,NA
No generator will invest millions of pounds into power plants that may get shut down in the near future.,NA
"Added methane reduces heat radiation to space, amplifying the warming effect of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.",NA
"The government, however, has long indicated it prefers the option of releasing it into the nearby Pacific, despite opposition from local fishermen who say it will undo years of work rebuilding their industry’s reputation since the plant was wrecked by a huge tsunami in March 2011.",NA
"""On Wylfa, we cannot pre-empt any decision to be taken by the regulatory authorities and safety considerations are paramount, but we at EnergySolutions are anxious to do all we can to help support the NDA's ongoing clean-up of the UK's nuclear legacy.""",NA
"In the 1960s and 1970s, 100 reactors were cancelled because of cost overruns.",NA
"Moreover, they’re much less polluting and more climate-friendly.",NA
"Piquemal resigned because he believed pursuing the world’s most expensive nuclear project could threaten the group, whose finances are already stretched by rising debt.",NA
"Dr Nicola Strickland, president of the Royal College of Radiologists, told the Evening Standard she feared the risk of “Brexatom” could threaten the supply of radioactive isotopes, used in scans and treatment.",NA
Indeed annual road deaths and lasting injuries in Britain alone comfortably exceed those of Chernobyl.,NA
But rebuilding trust that food from Fukushima is safe has been slow.,NA
"A new fleet of nuclear power stations was today backed by the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, as he outlined the UK government's plans to fast-track major energy infrastructure projects, also including ""clean coal"" power stations and windfarms.",NA
"In the US at least, nuclear power is already treated more favourably than alternatives, leaving aside the massive subsidies already handed out in the 20th century.",NA
He issued a veiled warning about the possibility of the government not meeting its target of reducing greenhouse gases through a vast expansion of renewable energy schemes.,NA
The assessment of value for money itself acknowledges Hinkley C to be more expensive than other low carbon energy strategies.,NA
"I mean the risks at Sellafield are massive.""",NA
That is precisely what the reforms in the energy bill are designed to do: keep the lights on and the air clean at the lowest cost to the consumer.,NA
Fukushima is distributing 20m sunflower seeds to suck up the cesium radionuclides that have permeated the soil.,NA
"""Climate change is the single biggest threat we face and Britain has to change the way it produces energy if we are to cut greenhouse gas emissions.",NA
"The body is also selling off land to companies such as RWE and E.ON to build new reactors and oversees the country's oldest and most unreliable nuclear facilities, such as the Thorp reprocessing plant.",NA
"However, the comparison is based on an extreme scenario – few expect Hinkley Point C will be axed, given the billions EDF Energy has already poured into it.",NA
It would be uneconomic to repair.,NA
"During recent pollution episodes, levels as high as 900 have been recorded in Bejing and other large cities such as Baoding.",NA
"""The phase-out is doable and I don't expect unsolvable problems,"" he told the Guardian in an interview.",NA
"Japan's industry minister, Banri Kaieda, said the basements of reactor buildings and underground trenches have been flooded with 60,000 tonnes of radioactive water that will have to be pumped into alternative vessels, including waste tanks, an artificial floating island and US navy barges.",NA
Sen.,NA
"The problem at Sellafield and at some other locations is not so much the high-level radioactive waste - although it can remain highly dangerous for thousands of years, it is fairly easily identifiable.",NA
Anyone brave enough to inquire into Britain’s proposed £24bn new power station can only reel back in horror.,NA
"But in almost every way, the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station offers only expensive and risky solutions from the 20th century.",NA
"He said the government should put the project on hold and consider potentially cheaper nuclear technologies from South Korea, China and Russia.",NA
We also note that opposition to new nuclear build has continued to fall.,NA
"Recent “hot testing” of the apparatus has been successful, raising hopes that a solution to the water problem may not be far off, said Shinichi Kawamura, head of risk communication at Fukushima Daiichi.",NA
"The Green party and groups such as Greenpeace advocate ditching nuclear in favour of more renewables, energy efficiency and flexibility through imports, batteries and other technologies.",NA
This means abandoning one of the government's more successful energy policies - that of driving down the cost of electricity - and setting a floor below which the electricity price cannot fall.,NA
They feel guilty about dropping atom bombs on people.,NA
"And though there are some radioactive waste products that come from the process, they all have short half-lives and will become inert within a few hundred years, as opposed to the thousands of years for which waste from fission reactors stays dangerous.",NA
"Now the local communities face the prospect of an energy industrial complex of nuclear power, radioactive waste and wind farms irrevocably transforming their environment and the life of the estuary.",NA
"The Tokyo Electric Power Company, BNFL's largest customer, has admitted it failed to accurately report 29 cracks found in a 15 year period in eight reactors.",NA
"""I visited Sellafield a few months ago and was personally concerned about how decrepit some of the oldest parts of the site looked some 25 years after my first visit.",NA
"He also says that the Japanese must include the ""safety and environmental information that to capture krypton is less acceptable than releasing it to the environment"".",NA
"This could create 1,500 new jobs by 2014.",NA
The revelation follows the publication of three highly critical Government reports that highlight failures of control at the company's Sellafield complex in Cumbria.,NA
Ministers are planning to give permission to use British stockpiled plutonium as fuel for German nuclear reactors because of the two-year closure of the Thorp reprocessing plant - a move some industry experts believe is against the law.,NA
"""In our opinion [fourth generation nuclear power] deserves your strong support, because it has the potential to help solve past problems with nuclear power: nuclear waste, the need to mine for nuclear fuel, and release of radioactive material.""",NA
"By such measures, and by excluding a minority view, Cerrie's report permits the conclusion that, however uncertain the science of radiation biology may be, the nuclear industry can enjoy business as usual.",NA
The authority classified the latest leak as a level one incident on the International Atomic Energy Authority's scale of nuclear and radiological accidents.,NA
"The needles on radiation detectors at the Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear processing plant went upwards alarmingly, 200 times higher than natural background radiation.",NA
"Days after Japanese authorities reported abnormal levels of radiation in milk, some vegetables and tap water, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said high levels of radioactivity had been found in seawater near the facility, raising fears that seafood has also been contaminated.",NA
"However, these reactors have not been successfully deployed, and Japan's prototype FBR at Monju is still off-line after an accident in 1995.",NA
"The nuclear industry often boasts that it provides almost permanent electricity, unlike many renewables, which function only when the wind blows or the sun shines.",NA
"""Their data shows that with typical generation costs in the range of £55-£86 per megawatt hour [MWh], new nuclear is well placed in helping keep low carbon energy affordable in the long term,"" he will say.",NA
Waste remains dangerous for thousands of years and there's no safe way of managing it.,NA
"Before the Fukushima incident, nuclear power generators had been enjoying a return to favour in many parts of the world.",NA
The clear message of accelerating global warming caused by the fuels that have allowed industrial consumerist capitalism to develop is that we have to change direction.,NA
"The UK should also be able to meet its internationally agreed targets to cut emissions by more than a fifth by 2020, compared with 1990 levels.",NA
That's the question I am asking after Japan (3rd) yesterday followed Germany (4th) in abandoning their plans for a new generation of nuclear reactors in the aftermath of the catastrophe at Fukushima.,NA
But don't buy the shale gas hype: the money men at Deutsche bank are clear it will not crash gas prices in the UK as it has in the US.,NA
"In particular, ""Sellafield continues to provide significant challenge, especially in the operational fragility of some of its radioactive waste treatment plant and the lack of progress in decommissioning the highly hazardous redundant plant"".",NA
"It's no place to bring up a child.""",NA
"Prof John Schellnhuber, the current adviser to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and previous adviser the president of the European commission and other governments, said the UK was missing out owing to its failure to replicate the successful use of feed-in-tariffs (Fits) to kickstart its renewables industry.",NA
"A balanced energy mix is essential in order to ensure secure, low-carbon and affordable supply in the future, and new nuclear is a key part of this.""",NA
"The 70 or so engineers, working around the clock in harsh conditions, spent Wednesday morning trying to put out a fire at one reactor and to cool others.",NA
"Readers can support this idea at petitions.pm.gov.uk/reduced-VAT. Alan Burgess Managing director, Masterframe Windows Repetition of the mantra that nuclear power is carbon-free (Nuclear waste is hardly a worry when the climate change threat is so urgent, July 26) does not make it true.",NA
It suggests that young children who live close to nuclear power stations are twice as vulnerable to developing leukaemia.,NA
"The health effects of Chernobyl have been well studied over 25 years by the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation: 28 workers died from acute radiation syndrome, and there were 15 fatal thyroid cancers in children.",NA
"MacKenzie notes that the memory of Maralinga is “still raw” for her people, as the government looks to use their lands for new nuclear waste sites.",NA
"There have been major advances in flexible renewable energy technologies in recent years, but ministers retain an appetite for the “firm” low-carbon electricity generated by nuclear reactors despite the financial hurdles to building them.",NA
"1957 - Calder Hall 2 (MWe net: 50) connected to grid. - The government promises a nuclear power building programme that would achieve 5,000-6,000MW capacity by 1965. - Fire at Windscale (one of the reactors on the Sellafield site, England) ranked 5 out of 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale leading to the release of the radioactive isotope Iodine-131 which can cause cancers.",NA
Those index-tracking funds found themselves stuck with an investment in a company where the saga just keeps running and running and where the share price has fallen 80% – seemingly with very little chance of staging a recovery.,NA
"""The mind boggles that scientists and technicians who did all these complex tasks like building nine nuclear power stations in 11 years, and ... built hydrogen bombs and reprocessing plants, could at the same time have chucked highly active waste into silos with no thought how to get it out,"" he said.",NA
"The expected cost of decommissioning and cleaning up Britain’s biggest and most hazardous nuclear plant, Sellafield, has increased by £5bn in a year, to £53bn, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has disclosed.",NA
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"Given we already have 2,000MW of wind power, and it costs about £1m to install a 1MW turbine, we would be looking at an investment of £53bn.",NA
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant - the biggest in the world in terms of output capacity - shook violently when a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Niigata prefecture in northern Japan on Monday morning.,NA
"We urgently need investment in new and diverse energy sources to power the UK.""",NA
"The PR effort saw direct appeals to the farming and nuclear lobbies – some of the fiercest critics of Obama's clean energy agenda – with Steven Chu, the Nobel-winning energy secretary, calling for new nuclear plants to re-establish America's technological dominance in the world.",NA
The pro-thorium lobby maintains this was at least partly because national nuclear power programmes in the US and elsewhere were developed with a military purpose in mind: namely access to a source of plutonium for nuclear weapons.,NA
"She said: “The prime minister had a moment of common sense earlier in the summer when she realised that the viability of the project needed careful scrutiny, but in the end she has caved in to French and Chinese pressure to go ahead despite all the evidence stacking up that subsidising the station will cost electricity consumers billions of pounds over its lifetime, not to mention all the taxpayer underwriting for clearing up its radioactive waste when it stops operating.",NA
"In addition, prefectural officials have suggested that the exclusion zone environs could play host to a range of other services that don’t require much human intervention, such as long-term archive facilities.",NA
"However, much of the current demand for ""baseload"" power is an artifact of pricing systems designed for coal, and may disappear as prices become more cost-reflective.",NA
No one will ever forget the carelessness of this disaster and its aftermath.,NA
"King favours a Mox – mixed oxide – plant, which would reprocess the plutonium into usable fuel, and generate electricity.",NA
"The costs of other kinds of renewables are high, and their potential to supply much of our electricity is low.",NA
"And, numerous, quicker, cheaper, safer and more efficient climate friendly energy strategies and technologies than nuclear are available.",NA
"Governments from around the world have pledged $785m (£480m) at a conference in Kiev, a week before the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident in Ukraine – on 26 April 1986 the reactor suffered explosions and caught fire.",NA
"Up to 1,000 sites could be polluted, though the best guess is that between 150 and 250 are, says a report on contaminated land by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), released last month, but previously unreported.",NA
Climate change is forcing us to face up to the reality of a finite planet and how much “wealth” can be generated today at the expense of future generations.,NA
"A gap means fewer options for the UK, which means we risk missing carbon reduction targets, continuing our dependence on imported fossil fuels and energy bills not being insulated from the rising costs of fuel.",NA
So it's scandalous that nuclear operators are being allowed to cap their liability at €0.7bn or at most €1.3bn – barely 1% of the possible Fukushima compensation.,NA
"Because of the errors of the past, his department was spending £2bn a year ""cleaning up"" the ""mess"" of nuclear waste which he said would rise two thirds next year.",NA
"It determines the lives of our progeny, health and harmonious development of future generations.",NA
It’s a reasonable idea.,NA
A more suitable measure would be to remove the protection of limited liability from the owners and directors of these companies in the event of a major accident.,NA
The concern with reactor 3 appears to stem from an explosion on Monday that is understood to have damaged the primary containment facility around the reactor's core.,NA
Suddenly you found there was this abundant fuel source.,NA
"Luc Oursel, president of Areva NP, said despite Flamanville's problems and rising costs and delays at the Olkiluoto site in Finland, nuclear still made commercial sense.",NA
"Further research horrified her: people who live near compressor or “pigging” stations experience nosebleeds and headaches, one survey of a few south-western Pennsylvania residents found.",NA
“Complexity is itself a warning that this project is likely to run into some kind of problem.,NA
"Waste from fission can remain radioactive for 250,000 years, making plans to store dangerous waste for many times longer than the whole of human civilisation speculative.",NA
"Crippling blow There have long been fears that a new generation of nuclear power will be at the expense of renewable energy, and now proof emerges from an unlikely corner.",NA
"Thirteen of Électricité de France’s (EDF) 58 atomic plants are offline, some due to planned maintenance, but most for safety checks ordered by the regulator over anomalies discovered in reactor parts.",NA
The Rocky Mountain Institute has shown that you can save seven times as much carbon through electricity efficiencies as you can by investing in nuclear.,NA
"With both of Britain's major nuclear generators essentially bankrupt, who is going to finance a new generation of nuclear reactors?",NA
"But even then, the group admits, it will take several years for it to recover commercially.",NA
"The technology is too uncertain, and the scale is too large: so huge that it has been described as like building a cathedral within a cathedral.",NA
"Magnetic fusion has many appealing features (unlimited fuel reserve, safety and environmental characteristics), and from present analysis, its potential for energy generation is real and ITER will bring an experimental confirmation.",NA
"But last night, there was almost total unanimity among greens that nuclear was not the answer.",NA
"But the nature and scale of the error raises serious questions about the rigour of Chinese nuclear firms and the country’s oversight regime, experts say.",NA
"The weather, blamed for deaths and disruption across much of the continent, has caused dramatic rises in the temperature of rivers used to cool the reactors, raising fears of mass deaths for fish and other wildlife.",NA
"""Unless something fills the gap, carbon dioxide emissions from electricity production are quite clearly going to go up again.""",NA
This is more than twice the cost of existing wholesale electricity prices.,NA
"Last November, George Osborne promised £250m over five years for a nuclear research and development programme to “revive the UK’s nuclear expertise and position the UK as a global leader in innovative nuclear technologies”.",NA
"Hours before Toshiba cancelled its earnings announcement for April-December, the Nikkei said the company was preparing to warn that it may not be able to continue as a “going concern” as a result of massive losses linked to Westinghouse and doubts about its restructuring plans, but did not provide details.",NA
"For good measure, Britain needs a better electricity grid and improved transmission links with other nations so that power can be exchanged during differing weather conditions.",NA
"The more renewable energy there is, the cheaper it becomes.",NA
No safe storage site has yet been found for the massive amount of waste already produced from our nuclear power stations.,NA
"Tackling climate change need only trim economic growth rates by a tiny fraction, the IPCC states, and may actually improve growth by providing other benefits, such as cutting health-damaging air pollution.",NA
It makes more sense to focus on energy efficiency and capture tide and wind power than to build nuclear power stations with their feet in the water.,NA
Last week it emerged the cost estimate for cleaning up nuclear waste in the UK had risen by £10bn in one year.,NA
"The proposal comes amid mounting criticism of Tepco's handling of problems at the plant, including leaks of radioactive water.",NA
In 2009 alone Germany installed solar photovoltaic systems with capacity equivalent to approximately four nuclear reactors.,NA
"Lord Turnbull, former head of the civil service, told Osborne that the Hinkley deal was a “bottomless pit and a big white elephant”, while the former energy minister Lord Howell, Osborne’s father-in-law, said it was “one of the worst deals ever” for British consumers and industry.",NA
"A large plant in Brittany, La Rance, has been operating successfully since 1966.",NA
The main lines are that nuclear is carbon-free in operation and that it might improve security of supply.,NA
"At the same time the UK’s nuclear reactors provided 16% of the electricity mix, meaning almost 80% of the grid was powered from low-carbon sources.",NA
"In the blast's immediate aftermath, 31 plant operators and firemen died – they were not told the reactor was the cause of the blaze or that radiation levels were lethal – while thousands more people, living on land that is now in Ukraine and Belarus, received doses that undoubtedly shortened their lives, although scientists still dispute the death toll.",NA
"""We won't meet the carbon targets if nuclear is taken off the table,"" he said.",NA
"“There is no other OECD country that would allow China to own any of its critical infrastructure, let alone its nuclear infrastructure.”",NA
The need for new energy sources by the end of the century is undisputed.,NA
"Operators shut down the system, but a large chemical explosion followed a power surge and the 1,000-tonne cover blew off the top of the reactor.",NA
"As a nation, we have moved to a minimum credible nuclear deterrent based on one system and we have reduced our operationally available arsenal by a further 20% in the last 12 months.",NA
"""I am deeply concerned about the nuclear situation because it is unpredictable,"" he said.",NA
"George Monbiot's article quoted a UN committee on Chernobyl: ""There has been no persuasive evidence of any health effect [other than thyroid cancer] in the general population that can be attributed to radiation exposure"" (The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all, 5 April).",NA
The still-unfolding tragedy of Japan may be told simply through the statistics of death and destruction.,NA
The Fukushima plant accident – coupled with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident – has spread a pall of negativity over nuclear energy business.,NA
"Despite the 20-mile exclusion zone around Chernobyl, some former residents returned to the area and it has also become something of a nature reserve and an attraction for a certain type of tourist.",NA
Hinkley is already behind schedule and the industry’s image has been further tarnished by two key plants currently being constructed in Finland and France.,NA
"Because wind doesn't blow consistently, wind power cannot replace fossil fuels watt for watt.",NA
"The current generation of power stations require uranium mining, which destroys habitats and pollutes land and water.",NA
What about safety?,NA
Any danger ahead will come from a major and sustained release of radiation.,NA
"The only argument for Trident, and any successor, is a false sense of national prestige.",NA
"Industry experts said that if the government underestimated the costs, companies could buy options to store the waste from planned reactors if they believed the disposal levy would increase in the future.",NA
When was the last time you heard an anti-nuclear campaigner drawing attention to this daily carnage?,NA
"On 14 March 2011, as the Fukushima nuclear plant went up in flames, 750 workers were evacuated.",NA
"If you factor in the carbon, then the economics looks [even] more favourable for nuclear.""",NA
"Even if Britain doubled its nuclear capacity, it would ""only account for an 8% drop"" in CO2 emissions by 2012, Riddell said.",NA
"Taking the path of least resistance, policymakers pay little attention to curbing energy consumption - until supplies run short.",NA
"Nuclear power is promising to make a comeback in Britain as well as France, the US and China at a time when some believe low-carbon alternatives such as wind and solar are not going to achieve the scale expected of them.",NA
But it should be emphasised that the limit is set at a low level to ensure that consumption at that level is safe over a fairly long period of time.,NA
The two main threats to human health come from caesium-137 and iodine-131.,NA
Some nuclear experts have warned that even a slight mishap involving the fuel rods could result in huge releases of radiation into the air and sea.,NA
"At the heart of the spending watchdog’s criticism is the coalition government’s failure to look at any alternative financing model, such as taking an upfront stake in the £18bn project.",NA
"“Enabling the exclusive use of clean energy will be a miracle for our planet,” said Bernard Bigot, Iter director-general.",NA
"Reduced abundance of insects and spiders linked to radiation at Chernobyl 20 years after the accident, Biology Letters, 5:356–359 | doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0778 (OA) Anders Pape Møller and Timothy A.",NA
"However, babies in Greece received only 200 microsieverts from the Chernobyl fallout, yet infant leukaemia there jumped by 160%.",NA
"In the latest delay, Finland's nuclear safety regulator halted welding on the reactor last week and criticised poor oversight by the sub-contractor, supplier and TVO. Areva claims TVO does not trust it to modify the fiendishly complex design as it sees fit, demanding documentation and approval from regulators for every change, however small.",NA
"Greenpeace argues that 250,000 died or will die, while the UN specialist committee on radiation has predicted that Chernobyl will be responsible for 9,000 extra deaths.",NA
"However, Copeland and Allerdale borough councils believe a waste repository will bring wealth to their deprived region and are keen to volunteer their area, which includes the Lake District national park.",NA
"A law to improve the country's ability to address a nuclear disaster introduced after a fatal accident at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura in 1999 was found wanting, he said.",NA
"""We literally have an abundance of potential renewable energy and yet we have one of the worst records of any country in the European Union for generating electricity from renewables,"" he said, describing the renewable energy share as the former government's ""most scandalous legacy.""",NA
"While people a century ago didn’t know about the risks of polluting the atmosphere when burning coal, policy makers today know exactly the risks of storing nuclear waste.",NA
"Next time the disaster may have nothing to do with an earthquake or a tsunami, but be because of terrorism, climate change, a fatal error in an anonymous engineering works, proliferation of plutonium or a deranged plant manager.",NA
"A better option than fossil fuels The government wants to phase out polluting coal by 2025, with nuclear offering a lower-carbon option that produces enough electricity to fill the gap created by closing existing plants.",NA
There is also a sense that Fukushima's victims have been forgotten.,NA
"Despite lower-than-expected nuclear output, higher electricity prices saw the group's profits more than double over the first half, from £212m to £481m.",NA
"When those reactors caught fire, they quickly triggered reactions in the storage tanks which themselves caught fire, and so the fires spread.",NA
"Standard & Poor's say that not even government help with construction costs changes this reality: ""an electric utility with a nuclear exposure has weaker credit than one without and can expect to pay more ... for credit"".",NA
"And, according to our government, why should a poor country spend small amounts of money on safe technologies like renewables or energy efficiency, if it can spend a whole lot of money on a plant that would release as much radioactivity as 100 Hiroshima bombs in the case of an accident?",NA
"For example British Energy pays about £300m a year to BNFL, a state-owned company, to reprocess the waste its operations leave behind.",NA
"Ministers are incensed by the political embarrassment caused by the falsification of plutonium data, which led the Japanese government to demand that mixed uranium and plutonium fuel delivered to its utilities should be returned to Britain.",NA
"Quantities of melted fuel are believed to have accumulated at the bottom of the damaged reactors’ containment vessels, but dangerously high radiation has prevented engineers from accurately gauging the state of the fuel deposits.",NA
"However, in these cases, the radiation is predictable, external and relatively easy to deal with.",NA
Some suggest we could capture half the world's emitted carbon in this way by the 2040s.,NA
There is danger of widespread radioactivity from an inability to cool Fukushima's spent nuclear fuel pools housed in less safe buildings.,NA
"For decades, researchers have puzzled over strange clusters of thyroid cancer, leukaemia and birth defects among people living in Cumbria, which, like southern Belarus, is an overlooked hotspot of radioactivity from cold war decades of nuclear bomb production and nuclear power accidents.",NA
Please be careful not to repeat the myths they generate to obscure the destruction they are perpetrating on us all.,NA
"France now produces 78 percent of its electricity from this low-carbon source, and enjoyed reductions in emissions of four percent a year over the course of just a decade.",NA
"On the research already completed, the PIU warns the government: ""At current rates, we are likely to reach the limits of the earth's carrying capacity as a sink of waste and emissions before 2050.""",NA
"If another cheaper, cleaner source of electricity was found after this was built, undercutting nuclear electricity, would we still be contractually obliged to purchase from the nuclear operator?",NA
"Walker’s concerns were echoed by John Carlson, the head of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (Asno) between 1989 and 2010, who said proceeding with the agreement would be “inexcusable”.",NA
"The modern nuclear reactors are designed with ""passive"" safety and multiple design features that do not require manual intervention in the event of extreme events.",NA
"In Australia, the last full examination of nuclear power was a 2016 South Australian royal commission that found neither large nor modular nuclear reactors were likely to deliver a commercial return between now and 2050 even if a strong carbon price was introduced, something the government says it has no intention of doing.",NA
"Sites contaminated with radioactivity have been sold by the Ministry of Defence and used for housing, factories and recreational use without the new owners being told, the government's nuclear watchdog says in a report out today .",NA
"""This will make decommissioning expensive and difficult, not to mention the recovery and movement of nuclear waste to higher ground.""",NA
"Dr Busby's report says that in the past 15 years leukaemia clusters have been found in the vicinity of all three nuclear reprocessing plants - Sellafield, Dounreay in Scotland and La Hague in France - and other nuclear stations using man-made radioactive substances.",NA
"About 370 hairline cracks have been discovered, which means there is a fracture in roughly one in 10 bricks in the reactor core.",NA
"The local authorities did not order an evacuation until several weeks later, after a radiation expert discovered multiple radioactive hotspots at levels higher than those considered safe for human habitation.",NA
"Neither approach has anything to do with what might actually produce the cheapest, cleanest electricity, and of course provide thousands of jobs in sensible, safe industries.",NA
He said his findings – taken in part from Japanese research and sampling of fish in the area – showed how difficult it was to predict the outcome of a nuclear incident such as that at Fukushima.,NA
"There is no realistic prospect of valuable fossil fuels being left in the ground, so the best strategy for tackling climate change is to mitigate the damage caused by their burning.",NA
Something seems to have gone wrong somewhere.,NA
"A large number of evacuees have already moved twice since the nuclear crisis began, and could be forced to move on again if the situation worsens and the evacuation zone is expanded.",NA
"Current plants, such as the planned French-Chinese Hinkley Point project in Somerset, have to be built on-site, a task likened to “building a cathedral within a cathedral”.",NA
Some scientists say there is a risk that the entire project could be cancelled.,NA
Groundwater at the Torness nuclear power station near Edinburgh was contaminated with radioactive tritium (an isotope of hydrogen) leaking from two pipelines.,NA
"Duke Energy, which runs reactors at six sites, has said operators would begin shutting down nuclear plants at least two hours before hurricane-force winds arrive.",NA
"Four nuclear reactors at two large power plants in the north of England are to be shut down temporarily, after inspectors discovered a fault with a boiler unit.",NA
Academia and the media have been tainted by the powerful influence of the nuclear industry.,NA
"Immediately afterwards, the Soviets hastily cobbled together the most effective structure they could to contain further radioactive contamination.",NA
"The doctors and scientists who have dealt directly with the catastrophe said that the UN International Atomic Energy Agency's ""official"" toll, through its Chernobyl Forum, of 50 dead and perhaps 4,000 eventual fatalities was insulting and grossly simplistic.",NA
"Also, with the world's supply of uranium rapidly depleting, attention has refocused on thorium, which is three to four times more abundant and 200 times more energy dense..",NA
"The first warnings about safety came as early as 1957 when a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear complex next to Calder Hall, which took four days to put out.",NA
"The other technology that could reduce waste, known as transmutation, aims to reduce radiotoxicity by using lasers to change the composition of dangerous waste.",NA
Nowhere do the authors give consideration to modern fail-safe reactors that can actually burn up nuclear waste.,NA
Critics in the UK are concerned that consumers will ultimately have to pick up the bill for the project.,NA
"But instead of focusing on these known solutions with the greatest potential to both slash carbon emissions and create thousands of new jobs, the government seems to be more focused on supporting speculative solutions such as new nuclear and hydrogen power for home heating.",NA
He claimed the new information about the alleged cooling pond accidents with weapons-grade plutonium had been ignored by an “incompetent and arrogant” government.,NA
"This all signals the rebirth of manufacturing in the UK, with an estimated 70,000 green-collar jobs to be created on the back of over £100bn of private sector investment.""",NA
Tepco's record of mishaps in the three years since Fukushima Daiichi suffered a triple meltdown suggests the wall project will not be trouble free.,NA
All 143 working nuclear power plants in the EU's 27 member states are facing new safety tests in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.,NA
Some members of the Conservative benches think renewable energy sources would fail to make the weight if nuclear power were knocked out of the equation. bLib Dems believe the huge subsidies the industry can receive skew the market in favour of nuclear.,NA
"The committee's report said the government had become ""too focused"" on nuclear, and now risked the lights going out by not investing heavily in energy efficiency and more wind and gas stations.",NA
"The temperature at the bottom of the No 2 reactor vessel had risen by more than 20C in the space of several days, although it remained below the 93C limit the US nuclear regulatory commission sets for a safe state known as cold shutdown.",NA
"Energy efficiency could deliver six Hinkley’s worth of electricity by 2030, interconnector cables to Norway, Denmark and France could add another two or three Hinkleys to the grid by 2025 and four Hinkleys’ worth of electricity could be saved by 2030 by increasing the ability to store electricity and making the grid smarter, with the latter alone saving bill payers £8bn a year.",NA
"When Scargill suggests that, by mining and refining coal, ""we can provide all the electricity, oil, gas and petrochemicals that people need, without causing harm to the environment"", he shows that he is living in a world of make-believe.",NA
"Scientists said radiation levels near the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant, where more than 200,000 people have been evacuated or told to stay inside, posed no immediate threat to the capital, which is 150 miles to the south.",NA
Nuclear power has consumed the resources that could have been invested in alternatives and invested in social justice.,NA
"It is extraordinary that the government can spend billions on the war with Iraq but has not got enough cash to secure our own nuclear facilities.""",NA
"Flibe Energy is dedicated to building commercial liquid-fluoride thorium reactors, which Sorensen says are a safer, more waste-efficient option than using uranium.",NA
"""According to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, within 30-40 years at least 30 countries are likely to have access to fissile materials from their civil nuclear power programmes that can be used for nuclear weapons and competent nuclear physicists and engineers who could design and fabricate them.",NA
"The power network is officially bringing forward by a year a scheme to tap additional capacity to cope with closures of nuclear, gas, coal and oil power stations and unexpected plant repairs.",NA
In 2005 Iran was ready to discuss an upper limit for the number of its centrifuges and to maintain its rate of enrichment far below the high levels necessary for weapons.,NA
So it's a good thing that even a few nuclear power plants have been unplugged.,NA
"Nisa said that 21 workers had so far been exposed to radiation exceeding 100 millisieverts, although tests have shown that no one has been exposed to radiation high enough to damage their health.",NA
"Dr Branovan discussed the dangers of radiation and said that in Chernobyl, hundreds died from immediate exposure but tens of millions were affected by low-level exposure and incidents of thyroid cancer abounded years after the incident.",NA
"Did we really need to replace nuclear power with nuclear, they may mutter as they keep paying the bills and filling up the caverns with the waste?",NA
"Moreover, the way we use energy is also massively wasteful.",NA
This is a terrible deal for billpayers.,NA
"In fact, recently a group of experts, under the auspices of a European commission project (arch.iarc.fr), has completed an in-depth review of the health-related research on the sequelae of the Chernobyl accident to date and found that, apart from research on the thyroid cancer outbreak, the international coverage is ""unco-ordinated ... forming a patchwork ... rather than a comprehensive, structured attempt to delineate the overall health consequences of the accident"".",NA
"Those concerns were echoed on Thursday by country’s top public auditor, which warned over the cost and complexity of the project.",NA
"However, although the operator must agree to take responsibility for the spent fuel and other radioactive waste, the cost is expected to be passed on to the domestic electricity user through higher bills.",NA
"But for westerners accustomed to marvelling at ingenious Japanese technical solutions to all manner of smaller problems, the unfolding horrors are something else too: a reminder of the frailty of the physical thread by which our whole civilisation hangs.",NA
"Of course, you're dealing with radiation, so there are always going to be hazards and dangers - and some tasks are more dangerous than others - but you're always safe in your air-lined suit.""",NA
"More than three years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster more than 120,000 people from the region are living in nuclear limbo with once close-knit families forced to live apart.",NA
"Having fully considered the evidence, our conclusion is that geological disposal is both technically possible and the right approach for managing existing and new higher-activity waste.",NA
For Iran this is difficult because of all the money it has sunk into the current reactor and a heavy water production plant.,NA
But the discovery is certain to reignite concern over the safety of food from the Fukushima area and the authorities' ability to ensure tainted produce does not go on sale.,NA
"So if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale comparable to our consumption, those facilities – whether centralised or decentralised – must be big.",NA
"The French state also wants to use the Somerset plant to sell its nuclear prowess globally, while the British government has too much political credibility to lose by pulling the plug now.",NA
"The alternative energy sources which produce no carbon dioxide - renewable sources like solar and wind power, biogas from landfills, and crops to burn in power stations - are being developed too slowly.",NA
The first of two reactors is scheduled to open in 2025 and in theory could provide 7% of the UK’s electricity 24 hours a day for 35 years.,NA
"As can be seen in the case of Fukushima, the financial compensation already paid out is far higher than even the proposed higher limits for a utility in the UK and the amount the accident may ultimately cost is likely to be an order of magnitude larger.",NA
At the time the draft NDA strategy was released last summer the cost of operating and decommissioning all of Britain's nuclear legacy was £56bn.,NA
The environmental impact of living next door to a nuclear research lab is another sore issue.,NA
The safety record of Britain's nuclear industry will be tarnished tomorrow when managers at the Sellafield complex in Cumbria are fined for exposing staff to radioactive contamination.,NA
The plans would hand developers an upfront regulated return on their investment at each new phase of the project.,NA
Among the problems which triggered the 21 breaches of permits and a prosecution over the Dungeness B plant in Kent were: · failure to use sampling equipment that allowed BE to give the readings it needed to assess levels of radioactive discharges; · failure to use the proper filtration equipment in waste management; · oil leaks from cooling systems in some of the sites.,NA
"Cerrie was established by the then environment minister Michael Meacher in 2001 amid concerns over radiation risks, including reports of increased incidents of cancer near nuclear sites and in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.",NA
Nor is there any hard evidence that the cost of cleaning up nuclear stations has become any clearer.,NA
"Clegg said the new carbon price brought in by the coalition, which will reward low-carbon technologies like nuclear and renewables, could help ameliorate the cost pressures on the nuclear industry.",NA
"I pointed out that the nuclear industry’s proponents, such as those gathered at last week’s World Nuclear Association jamboree in London, are fond of spreading fake news such as describing nuclear energy as “non-carbon emitting”.",NA
"It concluded: ""NII believes that there was significant risk that operators and even members of the public could have been harmed if there had not been fortunate and appropriate intervention of a contractor who just happened to be in the right plant area when things went wrong.""",NA
"A 2011 study by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory warns that a massive solar storm could knock out electricity in some areas for weeks, overwhelming the capacity of many nuclear plants to keep their critical cooling systems operational.",NA
"Pierre Gadonneix, chairman of the World Energy Council, said: ""It is clear from the report that nuclear energy will play a full part in the future energy mix, especially in developing countries, provided nuclear safety and transparency are continuously being reinforced.",NA
But nuclear power has consistently failed to function at the levels of baseload for which it has been designed.,NA
More challenging by far will be digging out the molten cores in the reactors themselves.,NA
"In effect, the prime minister will commit British businesses and homeowners to paying more than they might otherwise have to for their electricity.",NA
"1986 The world's worst nuclear accident occurs at Chernobyl in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.",NA
But it must be remembered too that the UK government's approach is aimed at securing our future supplies of low-carbon energy.,NA
"“It’s a recalibration off the back of the fact nuclear is not proving to be a practical, affordable technology.",NA
Nuclear power can be only one aspect of our energy mix.,NA
It takes five years to train a nuclear inspector and there is currently a limited pool of qualified inspectors from which to recruit.,NA
"Yes, apart from the deadly toxic waste that remains radioactive for thousands of years, it really is a very green form of energy; apart from endlessly producing one of the most lethal substances known to man which has to be dumped underground to leak into the water supply and poison future generations, it's as green as an organic mung bean farm.",NA
What has been less understood however is that Chernobyl changed the course of the world’s history and that its long shadow will hang over nuclear power for centuries.,NA
"One comes from General Electric Hitachi, which has technology called Prism that could reuse the fuel to generate power.",NA
"But it is a temporary bandage for our energy ills, not a cure.",NA
"Roger Higman, of Friends of the Earth, said: ""This is a massive decision that could lead to very large amounts of nuclear waste buried deep under the UK in a way that is very difficult to get it back again.",NA
"Pointing to the nearby research plant, which is still partially standing, he said: ""Some of the equipment was looted from this facility and we have to [rehabilitate] it again.""",NA
"To hold emissions to 450ppm [parts per million], we need in the region of 18 nuclear power stations, 17,000 turbines, 100 concentrated solar power stations and 16 carbon capture and storage plants to be built every year until 2030,"" said Birol.",NA
Wholesale electricity prices meanwhile tumbled as traders who anticipated shortages sold on the presumption that the nuclear reactors would keep running.,NA
"A secure domestic energy supply, of necessity, will either depend on our surprisingly bountiful though environmentally hazardous stock of coal, or a revival of nuclear power - as he pointed out yesterday, ""a very viable alternative"", with ""so many lies told about it, it's unbelievable"".",NA
"“We want the UK to be a trailblazer in developing fusion energy,” said Alok Sharma, the business and energy secretary.",NA
"The intermittency issue is easily dealt with as, for example, demonstrated by Denmark.",NA
"Add to it the clean-up costs, more stringent safety regulations and an inevitable increase in insurance arrangements, and the economics of nuclear will be forever changed.",NA
"Planning for the long-term, the government must keep open the full range of options for using the stockpile and managing future waste by reconsidering its participation in international fast-reactor research programmes.",NA
"Michael Davitt, in a local shop, said: ""I'm not especially happy about nuclear power, but we have regulations [for safety] and it provides employment, so people understand that.""",NA
"Every Lib Dem can tick off the reasons to loathe nuclear: the problem of waste disposal, the bad example it sets to nations denied nuclear technology, the cost of building new plants, the spectres of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and the awful possibility that terrorists might target a facility.",NA
"Back then the Central Electricity Generating Board was wedded to nuclear power, when the projected cost per kWh was on a par with the Rance tidal power station in Brittany, and Électricité de France assumed it was twice as expensive as nuclear power, instead of turning out to be cheaper.",NA
"Tuncak also warned of the risk that fracking, soon to start in Lancashire, poses to safe water.",NA
"CND's David Andrews, also on the group, says: 'If you flew an airliner into the plutonium store, could it withstand that?",NA
"The UK does not need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations after the crisis at the Fukushima plant in Japan, the nuclear chief inspector, Mike Weightman, said today.",NA
"Everyone wins – including the climate, thanks to the fact that gas produces only around half as much CO2 as coal does for each unit of power or heat created.",NA
"New jobs and financial investment in the energy sector are at risk if the government does not ensure its imminent energy bill supports low-carbon power, an unusual coalition of the trade bodies representing the renewable energy, nuclear power and carbon capture industries has warned.",NA
"The government is planning to award covert subsidies of hundreds of millions of pounds to nuclear power, betraying the coalition promise that the taxpayer would not foot the bill for a new generation of reactors, according to an influential committee of MPs.",NA
"Many environmentalists claim that, when all the hidden costs, especially the massive decommissioning liabilities, are taken into account, electricity from atomic plants could cost as much as 5p per kilowatt hour or even more.",NA
"Proponents argue solar power is now cheaper than Hinkley, having fallen by half in the last five years.",NA
"It is estimated that the lifetime cost of disposing of the radioactive waste accumulated to date will cost the taxpayer around £12bn, with £4bn estimated to be spent before the waste can be buried.",NA
Germany's promise to ditch nuclear power will produce an extra 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.,NA
The National Audit Office said the contract sealed by ministers last September with EDF to construct the country’s first new atomic reactors in two decades would provide “uncertain strategic and economic benefits”.,NA
"She added: ""Nuclear power leaves a deadly legacy of radioactive waste that remains highly dangerous for tens of thousands of years and costs tens of billions of pounds to manage.",NA
"Consumers may face higher electricity bills to cover the future decommissioning costs of a new generation of nuclear power stations to be announced this week, the Guardian has learned.",NA
"The fact that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is responsible for dealing with waste, while the Department of Trade and Industry deals with the commissioning and operation of power stations, must not prevent a coherent approach to policy that meets our future energy requirements whilst properly managing any waste that is produced.""",NA
"Imperceptibly, the quite real associations between Britain's civilian nuclear power stations and the country's military nuclear programme settled in the public consciousness, as did the notion of anything related to radioactivity as malign and sinister.",NA
"""With Fukushima very much in the public's mind, we are particularly concerned to hear of a coolant incident at Hartlepool,"" Regan said.",NA
"More than 14,000 people are still missing, and 152,000 survivors are living in evacuation centres.",NA
The nuclear industry has a long record of broken promises over cost – Hinkley-type reactors being built by EDF in France and Finland are billions over budget and years behind schedule.,NA
"Britain's biggest nuclear generator believes it can help bridge the gap between old and new plants by extending the life of some, if not all, of its eight facilities.",NA
"Just 15% of the 29,000 permanent homes planned for survivors and nuclear evacuees have been completed in the three worst affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.",NA
"Hearn says: ""There are plenty of sites where deposits [of waste] could be immobilised for millions of years.""",NA
"The NIC said last year that the UK shouldn’t rush to tie itself to an expensive nuclear future and should instead back renewables, notably wind and solar, to continue becoming cheaper.",NA
It could take several days to bring the temperature and pressure of the reactor cores down to within safe limits.,NA
"The water problem is so severe that the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco], and its myriad partner firms have enlisted almost all of their 6,000 workers in the 2tn yen (£11bn) mission to bring it under control, almost four years after a deadly tsunami sparked a triple meltdown at the plant.",NA
"""Ongoing events at Fukushima are a timely reminder of the consequences of flooding at coastal nuclear sites,"" she added.",NA
Workers at the site are still facing high radiation levels and contaminated waste water to keep three reactors and several ponds of spent fuel under control.,NA
"We will have low-carbon energy and security of supply.""",NA
"Golby argues that the replacement generator could be the last chance to save the planet, by demonstrating that still-untested technology to capture and store the carbon emissions from burning coal is achievable.",NA
"The cost of nuclear has soared to £7bn a reactor, while costs of renewable power continue to fall, but ministers are still clinging to their nuclear dream.",NA
Higher safety standards.,NA
Cash-strapped EDF has failed to deliver a new generation of safe European PWR nuclear power stations.,NA
"The atomic energy group's figures for the year to March 2000, due in the next month, are expected to show operating losses on its core business growing from last year's £62 million.",NA
"And because radiation does not respect borders, in Ireland we are in the same position as Belarus.",NA
"But the cost is absurdly high and still rising,"" he wrote during a question and answer session on Reddit to promote his 24-hour Climate Reality webcast on the links between fossil fuels and extreme weather.",NA
"Mackay said the approach to dealing with the UK's 100 tonne stockpile of plutonium was changing from a heavy focus on the mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) approach, a programme which has suffered huge and costly failure in the past, to include consideration of advanced ""fast"" reactors, which can consume plutonium.",NA
It's time for the government to stop frittering with irrelevancies like low-energy light bulbs and urging us to switch off standby equipment.,NA
The IEA previously believed nuclear would generate 14% of all electricity by 2035 but this figure is under revision in the light of Germany and Japan abandoning the sector following the Fukushima crisis.,NA
"It's fine for Britain to have nuclear technology and nuclear weapons, too.",NA
"Earlier this month, the group said that the majority of its experts were satisfied that an underground repository would be safe and represent a ""fair burden to pass to future generations"".",NA
,NA
"British Energy, which made an overall loss of £493m last year after write-downs, is said to be losing upwards of £100m this year.",NA
The Indian government presents nuclear energy as part of the solution to its looming energy crisis.,NA
"(I am also hopeful that fusion power stations, without the problems of nuclear-waste disposal, will emerge over the coming three or four decades.)",NA
"In 2007, George Osborne said this: ""Rather than green policies stifling economic growth, it is clear that the converse is true: a strong economy can go hand in hand with environmentalism.",NA
"When finished, it will be slid across teflon pads to entomb the burned out reactor, and is intended to remain effective for a century.",NA
"They were protesting two days before the second anniversary of the meltdowns at the Fukushima Da-ichi power plant, which resulted from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.",NA
"When told by local television crews that the white buildings on the other side of the harbour house a nuclear power plant, and that an accident there killed four people this month, some holidaymakers decide to pack up and leave.",NA
"“Japan has better technology and better management, and yet it couldn’t avoid an accident despite the fact that it tried very hard to learn from the US and USSR,” He said, adding that China’s nuclear monitor has sparser staffing than Japan’s, and offers low salaries that will not attract the best young scientists.",NA
"The autobiography of a former director of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) is likely to reignite fears about the safety of nuclear power, as Britain prepares for a new generation of reactors, by exposing the panic that rocked the industry two decades ago when a link was suggested between radiation and childhood leukaemia.",NA
"In all other British nuclear power stations, the concrete is strengthened by steel cables that can be inspected and removed as the reactor ages, but in the European design, the cables are grouted over, making maintenance checks impossible.",NA
"Exceptionally eminent figures in the environmental movement such as James Lovelock have long since recognised that, whatever the challenges of nuclear power, they are as nothing compared to those of global warming.",NA
"The new power stations are due to be running by 2017 and will create highly skilled jobs for future generations.""",NA
"""In a sense decommissioning a nuclear power plant is a backward-looking operation, but we face so many unprecedented challenges that I think of it as forward-looking,"" he said, citing the deployment of newly designed robots to locate and remove melted nuclear fuel.",NA
To make fullest use of these abundant but non-nuclear forms of energy we will need another flexible form of generation to complement their fluctuations and match the changing demand cycles.,NA
One view is that the costs of waste disposal are small today because they are deeply discounted.,NA
"Germany has built, step by step, an integrated but pragmatic energy system.",NA
"Even the head of the safety department at Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council, has doubts about the country's fourth nuclear plant, suggesting it no longer enjoys much support.",NA
"Since you have to pay for the financing as well as the direct construction costs, this makes nuclear much less attractive to investors than other forms of electricity generation.",NA
"""Radiation released has been controlled – the reactor has been protected,"" said the BIS official, whose name has been blacked out.",NA
"The report includes nuclear power as a mature low-carbon option, but cautions that it has declined globally since 1993 and faces safety, financial and waste-management concerns.",NA
Firefighters tackling woodland fires near Chernobyl lack monitoring as well as equipment.,NA
"There will also be a loss of income next year from the Oldbury nuclear plant in south Gloucestershire, which is now scheduled for closure in February.",NA
"""Children should be moved out of areas where radiation levels are high, not used as guinea pigs.""",NA
"The UN watchdog's report, published on Friday, showed Iran pressing ahead with its uranium enrichment work in defiance of UN resolutions calling on it to suspend the activity.",NA
"The workers, along with firefighters and police officers, get little rest and are unable to take baths or eat fresh food, Tanigawa said, adding that they were under constant threat from radiation.",NA
"But Paul Howarth, research director at the Dalton Nuclear Institute at Manchester University and a former scientist with British Nuclear Fuels, said a new generation of reactors would be cheaper to dispose of because they were designed with clean-up in mind.",NA
"The French nuclear giant Areva yesterday confirmed there was a radioactive leak from a broken pipe at a nuclear fuel plant in south-eastern France, a week after a uranium spill at another of its plants polluted the local water supply.",NA
All of Japan’s 48 working reactors were shut down to undergo stringent new safety checks in the wake of the disaster.,NA
The government argues that despite the problems getting new nuclear plants built it is essential to keep nuclear power alongside renewable energy and new gas plants to keep prices lower and help reduce the risk of over-relying on one technology.,NA
"""What is needed is to rule out an extension of nuclear power now.",NA
Australia has never had an independent assessment of what is the best (or least worst) way to manage our radioactive waste.,NA
"Hence, I heartily agree with Professor David MacKay that is a ""wise idea to keep our options open"".",NA
The most senior figure in nuclear safety has defended the regulation of an atomic power station barely 50 miles from the centre of London that leaked radioactive material for 14 years.,NA
"'A mix of energy supply is right,' Darling said of his plans to boost low-carbon energy, particularly offshore projects where there are fewer planning hurdles.",NA
"Yet the country’s first plant closures meant carbon emissions actually increased, as the production gap was immediately filled through the construction of new coal plants.",NA
Flooding them would increase the chances of vast quantities of contaminated water leaking out of the complex.,NA
The facility was also meant to deal with spent fuel from pressurised and light water reactors elsewhere in the world.,NA
"To this end, the LNP is strongly committed to an energy policy that delivers safe, affordable and reliable energy to consumers, while fulfilling Australia’s international emissions reduction obligations.",NA
"They show how the nuclear industry can rely on smaller players that will take essential steps forward, which, in turn, helps larger power companies to provide a reliable source of energy and bring energy costs down.",NA
As my colleague Damian Carrington wrote in 2010: The legacy of ill health suffered by British Coal miners is also costing taxpayers millions.,NA
"""The European Commission has made clear that the operation of the plant would not lead to any detrimental environmental impact on Ireland, or indeed on any other member state of the EU.""",NA
But Friends of the Earth (FoE) said the latest delays to nuclear would only make wind and other greener technologies more competitive.,NA
"""We think the share of renewables and nuclear which is now 18% worldwide needs to go up to 33% by 2030,"" he said.",NA
"“This power station is absolutely central to the government’s strategy for keeping the lights on and meeting Britain’s international commitments on climate change,” she said.",NA
But it would do nothing to imperil our climate or energy security and would save British householders and businesses a great deal of money.,NA
"Both countries say that, without nuclear energy, they will not be able to meet the 20% target for renewables.",NA
"Unlike uranium-235, the thorium atom does not easily split, making it safe to store and handle.",NA
"To compound Tepco's problems, sources familiar with the situation at the plant say the firm is struggling to hire new workers, as others resign or are forced to leave because they have reached their radiation exposure threshold.",NA
"In December, the government said the estimated cost of decommissioning the plant and decontaminating the surrounding area, as well as paying compensation and storing radioactive waste, had risen to 21.5tn yen (£150bn), nearly double an estimate released in 2013.",NA
"Hundreds of private companies have been given extraordinary latitude to evict villagers, expropriate private land, clear state forests and steamroller normal planning restrictions to meet the target of 4,000 hydroelectric schemes by 2023.",NA
It is also a remote site far from big cities and other potential electricity customers.,NA
"Last year the Royal Society warned that Britain's stocks of plutonium are kept in ""unacceptable"" conditions and pose a severe safety and security risk.",NA
"The overall radiation release from the plant is staggering – 770,000 terabecquerels in the wake of the accident and a billion becquerels still being added each day while engineers struggle to seal the broken containment structure.",NA
"That intrinsic danger means that as each new risk to reactors is discovered, more and more expensive measures need to be put in place as mitigation.",NA
The government has switched money meant for low-carbon and renewable technologies to clean up the waste from nuclear power stations.,NA
"The steps produced immediate results: radiation readings in topsoil outside Ando's school dropped from 1.32 microsieverts to 0.25 microsieverts an hour, compared with a pre-disaster reading of 0.04 microsieverts.",NA
"Tourism minister Ertugrul Gunay appeared to break ranks, warning that ""if the hydroelectric energy projects are carried out in a reckless manner, cutting out each brook, levelling each mountain and destroying forests just to be able to produce a few watts of energy, tourism would be an impossible dream"", particularly in the Black Sea region.",NA
"He said in a statement: ""I would say to Tony Blair and every politician who has the ability to influence the future energy strategy of our country that giving the green light to nuclear power would be an expensive and dangerous mistake that is simply not the solution to the problem of climate change.",NA
"The chief executives of EDF and E.ON are both on record as saying that renewables would spoil the chances for nuclear, and only a minor renewables contribution can be tolerated if ministers want a ""nuclear renaissance"".",NA
“Once [people] have left an area the wildlife appear to thrive — even if the habitat is laced with radiation.”,NA
"Keith Baverstock Department of environmental sciences, University of Eastern Finland • Your editorial was a reminder of the sad events associated with Fukushima Daiichi and the undeniable challenges associated with the cleanup programme.",NA
"Its total emissions – from mine to dump – are taken into account, and demonstrate that it is a genuinely low-carbon option 2.",NA
"""Our concerns are not about foreign ownership or the rights and wrongs of nuclear power, they are around putting more power into the hands of the big six energy groups,"" said Adam Scorer, campaigns director of energywatch.",NA
Its two reactors will cost £8bn each and will provide enough power to supply 7% of Britain's homes for 60 years.,NA
"A new movie, Pandora's Promise (no film-maker familiar with nuclear history would include ""promise"" in a title intended to be pronuclear), recently screened at Sundance.Featuring the same old converts and straw men, it opened in cinemas a few weeks ago to tiny audiences and generally unenthusiastic reviews, especially from reviewers knowledgeable about nuclear power.",NA
"Yesterday, after 25 years of deliberations, an Indian court triumphantly convicted Union Carbide India Ltd of causing death by negligence through the Bhopal catastrophe.",NA
Earlier in the autumn British Energy reported boiler tube cracking at a unit at the Hunterston B station and a similar problem at Hinkley Point and said it was closing both stations for repair work.,NA
Nuclear power is unsafe because the consequences of any accident are so dire.,NA
Two similar reactors have already had their lives extended by five years; it's thought that all eight reactors could have at least an extra 10 years of operation.,NA
"In the mix of Obama's plan are nuclear power and 'clean coal' technologies, all of which have huge questions marks over their ability to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.",NA
"Instead of locking Britain into this costly and risky technology, the Government should be investing in energy efficiency and renewables, the costs of which are rapidly decreasing.",NA
"Adam Kennerley Solutions adviser, Greenpeace Despite the leak at the Thorpe reprocessing plant, reluctantly I have come to the conclusion that our future depends on electricity generated by nuclear power.",NA
The Committee on Climate Change estimates that they're good for 50 years.,NA
"In 1957 it caught fire, melting hundreds of rods and producing the world's worst nuclear accident prior to Chernobyl in 1986.",NA
"The plant is wrecked and decommissioning will take decades of arduous, complex work.",NA
"Modern nuclear stations, already in operation in South Korea and China, are a world away from the old designs.",NA
"It was repaired and there was no radioactive release, Nappi said.",NA
"Because the profits for the winner are to come from squeezing efficiencies out of running the site, unions and environment groups queue up to voice fears about safety.",NA
"However, the head of the US nuclear regulatory commission, Gregory Jaczko, warned on Thursday that the units may not cool down for weeks.",NA
And this potentially reduces the amount of energy that needs to be put in to get the fusion reaction off the ground.,NA
"But in the meantime, the flourishing ecosystems have prompted the UN to suggest that Chernobyl should be developed as, of all things, a nature reserve and ecotourism destination.",NA
"Costs and clean-up liabilities often loom larger as time goes by, while a satisfactory way of dealing with waste has always remained the same distant speck on the horizon.",NA
"Gregory Jackzo, the chairman of the US nuclear regulatory commission, has told a congressional hearing in Washington that the storage pool at No 4 was in danger of giving off more radioactive material.",NA
"In actual fact, not one person has died of radiation, nor is anyone likely to.",NA
"But then, if anything went wrong it would be too late to do anything.""",NA
"Nuclear power is a myth as much as a reality, a shadow in the modern mind.",NA
"Tens of thousands of people affected by the nuclear crisis, many of whom fled with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, face many more months living in evacuation centres.",NA
The plant was not designed to resist shaking caused by earthquakes of greater than magnitude 6.5.,NA
The trashed guarantees stack up as steadily as the toxic waste pile that already costs billions a year to store.,NA
"""We can do everything [from providing nuclear fuel to operating plants] if one compares us with other players, such as Areva, so we are not limiting our options.""",NA
"In total, a third of US nuclear power plants are set to close down or are unprofitable largely due to a major shift to cheaper natural gas.",NA
"Further, it is estimated that the cost to taxpayers for the disposal of radioactive nuclear waste could be as much as $100bn.",NA
"A Conservative spokesman was accused of ""irresponsible"" behaviour in the Commons today after he revealed just how easy it would be for terrorists to destroy Sellafield nuclear power plant and render most of Britain uninhabitable.",NA
"It is the same model used to fund London’s £4.2bn super-sewer project, the Thames Tideway tunnel, which has drawn criticism for raising water bills while investors reap financial rewards.",NA
"The Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) pointed to previous delays in new energy developments, such as the six years and 340 inquiry days it took the Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk to clear the planning system.",NA
"Last week it emerged that BNG believes it spends twice as much, and takes twice as long, as it needs in the preliminary stages of decommissioning Magnox plants.",NA
"Dr Peter B Baker Prestwood, Buckinghamshire • Is it not supremely ironic that Michael Meacher (who 30 years ago played himself as a campaigning environmentalist in Troy Kennedy Martin’s much admired BBC drama Edge of Darkness) should die on the day when Her Majesty’s government announced it would rekindle the UK’s commitment to nuclear power by doing a deal with a country that has a dubious commitment to human rights and a serious track record in international cybercrime?",NA
"The unusually high levels of radioactivity in the puddles ""almost certainly"" indicated that water had seeped from a reactor core, said Yukio Edano, the chief government spokesman.",NA
"The company, beset by plummeting wholesale power prices, warned that this and other unplanned ""outages"", or closures, would cut its output forecast for the year from 67.5 terawatt hours to 63TWh and cost up to £25m to put right.",NA
"Their takeaway from the second largest nuclear accident in history (after Chernobyl) is that outside of the badly contaminated plant site and the temporary dislocation of the area's residents, not much harm was done.",NA
About 16 tonnes of metal and slag are so badly contaminated that they will have to be stored for many years until Britain finds somewhere to dispose of the material.,NA
"""After all the promises from ministers that the private sector would pay the full costs of new nuclear power stations, we find it wasn't true.",NA
"In the NDA's 2011 annual report the provisional cost of dealing with the UK's nuclear legacy was put at £53bn, compared with a 2010 figure of £49bn.",NA
Thomas said radiation released from Fukushima posed no threat to people in the US or the UK.,NA
"Prof King recognises that the best card the ailing industry can play right now is climate change, and he rightly makes the point that nuclear power is fossil fuel-free, and therefore barely contributes to global warming.",NA
"The business secretary, John Hutton, said last week that new nuclear power plants were essential for keeping the lights on in the UK, increasing security of supply, ending dependence on foreign imports and fighting climate change.",NA
I know some people are worried about the dangers of nuclear power and the problem of dealing with the waste but this will be massive for opportunities here.”,NA
"Despite progress in rehousing an estimated 400,000 displaced people and clearing millions of tonnes of debris, many survivors say they face a bleak future.",NA
It says the power station will be safe and will help secure Britain's energy supply.,NA
The ministry has been criticised for failing to recognise the dangers posed by nuclear power and for its close ties to utilities.,NA
"As for carbon emissions, let's cut them down by cutting out the centralised power stations that cannot help but waste the heat they by-produce from fossil fuels.",NA
"Southampton, City and Manchester universities also do socio-economic research on how sustainable nuclear energy is compared with other options, he said.",NA
"Closure of Hinkley Point would be likely to lead to closure of at least three other nuclear stations built at the same time, which are also known to be suffering from cracks in their cores.",NA
"Isolating and clearing it will cost at least £180m, and take until 2025 to complete.",NA
In fact nuclear power can only really deliver for the UK as part of that mix.,NA
"I wanted to make sure we got the best deal for the consumer, and transferred all the construction risk from the consumer to the developer, which has never happened before.""",NA
"While some in the scientific community question that birth defects and retardation are directly attributable to the disaster, noted scientist Alexei Okeanov [of the International Sakharov Environmental University in Minsk, Belarus] calls it ‘a <U+FB01>re that can’t be put out in our lifetimes’.”",NA
"“You have to have some baseload source to provide power when it is utterly calm and renewables are not providing energy,” explains Bob Ward, of the Grantham Research Institute.",NA
"EDF has already warned that the cost of Hinkley could climb from £18.1bn to £20.3bn, and that it may not start generating power until 2027, rather than 2025 as planned.",NA
"He signed off on the controversial RBMK reactor, a type of reactor that had been rejected by other countries as unsafe and that had already malfunctioned once in an incident in Leningrad in 1975.",NA
At Fukushima there have been no deaths so far due to radiation.,NA
It’s very safe.,NA
So it is a massive oversimplification to state that Germany's decision to go nuclear free means more reliance on coal – either now or in the future.,NA
Recent tests confirm earlier findings: there is still contamination in the soil.,NA
"Along with three other former directors of Friends of the Earth, with experience going right back to the 1970s, I am very familiar with the record of the nuclear industry in pulling the wool over the eyes of both senior officials and ministers.",NA
"The nuclear waste mess is worsening, as demonstrated by the fact that Sellafield is leaking, among other things, Technetium-99 into groundwater boreholes.",NA
"EDF Energy, which operates the plant, said the reactors were shut down as a precautionary measure and the public had not been in danger.",NA
"The Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain - who describes himself as a ""nuclear sceptic"" - has already ruled out building a reactor in Ulster due to objections from the Irish government.",NA
"It accepted an extraordinarily sloppy environmental assessment report on Jaitapur, which doesn't consider biodiversity and nuclear safety, or even mention radioactive waste.",NA
"Not only does the economy appear to be more resistant to resource shocks than we assumed, but the result of those shocks is an increase, not a decline, in environmental destruction.",NA
"You can even traipse through the rural shack of a “self-settler”, one of the handful of elderly people living illegally in the dead zone, most of them without electricity or running water.",NA
"Holding up the Geiger counter at a disaster site and showing the surprisingly low number is a bit obtuse and smug, and doesn't address people's fears about an explosion.",NA
The Lib Dems support a nuclear deterrent.,NA
"Mitsuhiko Tanaka, a former Babcock-Hitachi nuclear engineer, accuses Abe and other government officials of playing down the severity of the decommissioning challenge in an attempt to win public support for the restart of nuclear reactors across the country.",NA
"Posters depicting an airliner plunging towards Dungeness B nuclear power station with the caption ""60 Seconds to Disaster"" have been erected in Lydd.",NA
"During this meeting, he voiced his strong opposition to the nuclear industry in Japan, especially nuclear fuel reprocessing, based on issues of cost, safety, and security.",NA
"As Fiona Harvey in the Guardian reports: The sooner the UK makes large investments in low-carbon generation – including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear power and energy from waste – the cheaper it will be, according to David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).",NA
But with so many broken promises some involved in the project doubt it will yield commercial energy any time soon.,NA
"But, according to the engineers, building the massive amounts of low-carbon infrastructure in time to meet the government's targets will be impossible.",NA
"EDF maintains that its plants are immune to “external stresses” and the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve has said that measures to “neutralise” the drones were in place.",NA
"""We have run out of money to discharge these liabilities for many years to come,"" he said.",NA
"If all of this leaves you unconvinced of the marriage of irrational, unscientific, and unethical attitudes by many green organisations then you should read about the history of opposition to golden rice, an innovation that has the potential to greatly reduce human suffering.",NA
"It will also be a choice based on imported French or US technology, when we have dozens of UK companies waiting for government to signal that it is truly in favour of sustainable energy.",NA
"But its comprehensive analysis found rapid action can still limit global warming to 2C, the internationally agreed safe limit, if low-carbon energy triples or quadruples by 2050.",NA
"A nuclear power station is about as useful in solving the dilemma as a 20th-century nuclear weapon is in ending a 21st-century guerilla insurgency, because a ground-level energy revolution is taking place.",NA
"Koizumi, 74, has also thrown his support behind hundreds of US sailors and marines who claim they developed leukaemia and other serious health problems after being exposed to Fukushima radiation plumes while helping with relief operations – nicknamed Operation Tomodachi (friend) – following the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.",NA
Greenpeace UK said investors could see the economics of new nuclear did not add up.,NA
"On a wider scale still, unnecessary fear of radiation now presents a serious hazard to the world's climate.",NA
"""It is a national emergency and it's been left far too late – we've known for the last 10 years that most of our nuclear power fleet would come to the end of its planned life,"" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.",NA
And energy bills will be 11% lower than by 2030 than they would have been if the nuclear plant had not gone ahead.,NA
"Despite all the controversy over competing technologies today, this amazing fact - plus the fact that it can supply all that energy safely and without harm to the environment - should eventually carry the day, leaving other energy sources as bit players on the world stage.",NA
"And in Britain, the repair and maintenance of solar, wind, wave and tidal facilities will create local wealth and expertise in the long term, for a sustainable future.",NA
"Moreover, it plans to continue to profit from others' waste.",NA
"In the chaotic two years after its name became forever associated with nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi power plant “resembled a field hospital”, according to the man who is now in charge of the most daunting task the nuclear industry has ever faced: removing hundreds of tons of melted fuel from the plant’s stricken reactors.",NA
What wasn't widely known at the time was that radioactive contamination from the fire had also been monitored as far away as south-east England and even on mainland Europe.,NA
"Several other countries, parties or not to the treaty, enrich uranium without being accused of ""threatening the peace"".",NA
"Even if all of the contaminated water were released into the ocean, it would not contain enough tritium to be detectable by the time it dispersed and reached the US west coast about four years later, said Simon Boxall, an oceanographer at the University of Southampton.",NA
His point that commissioning THORP would be a huge mistake has been proved correct.,NA
"In particular, the leadership of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in this effort points to an alarming propensity to prioritise business interests over public safety.",NA
(There are 520 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo land alone.),NA
"“There has been no environmental impact study, there’s been no geological surveys, there’s been no appreciation of Indigenous cultural heritage.",NA
"The authoritative report, produced by 1,250 international experts and approved by 194 governments, dismisses fears that slashing carbon emissions would wreck the world economy.",NA
Two of the men received possible beta ray burns to their legs.,NA
"Bullish statements from John Hutton, secretary of state for business, enterprise and regulatory reform, about how he intends to push ahead with Britain's nuclear new-build programme should remove any lingering doubt that the government's conversion is complete and that it now wants to see our civil capacity retained in the interests of carbon reduction and security of supply.",NA
Kansai Electric says it has enough oil in stock to restart two ageing thermal reactors.,NA
"On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's reactor number four blew up after operators botched a safety test, triggering the world's worst nuclear disaster to date.",NA
"""If we were given £410m, instead of British Energy, we could build enough onshore wind energy to power 10% of the country.""",NA
"A World Health Organisation study found the explosion caused an estimated 4,000 premature deaths.",NA
"Sir David argued that the new generation of nuclear stations are ""much safer and produce less waste per unit of energy produced"", adding that the industry should not be allowed any subsidy - one of the most contentious issues in any review.",NA
"Problems intensified last night when BE announced the closure of another reactor - at Heysham 2, Lancashire - after a minor electrical fault.",NA
"Last month, as part of the celebrations for 50 years of civil nuclear power, director general Dr Mohamed El Baradei said that even if the global economy grew strongly, nuclear power would only grow about 70% over the next 25 years and its share of world energy would proportionately fall because of the more rapid expansion of other electricity sources.",NA
"Our civilisation depends, in much of the world, on energy.",NA
"""David Bonser was the man responsible for setting up Thorp, which has been the greatest single failure on the whole Sellafield complex.",NA
"The chairman of the American-led consortium that runs Britain's largest nuclear complex at Sellafield was forced into a humiliating apology on Wednesday after admitting a raft of cost overruns, performance failures and an expenses scandal.",NA
"The announcement that the Hinkley Point C plant will go ahead in the UK will give hope to other nuclear operators, notably Hitachi of Japan which is eyeing other sites.",NA
"The country now faces a costly, ineffective and unpredictable approach to the future of our environment.""",NA
Japan’s plans to return to nuclear power generation more than four years after the triple meltdown at Fukushima received a boost on Wednesday after a court approved the restart of two nuclear reactors.,NA
"Sustainable development at its most basic level means not landing future generation with more problems, and no exception should be made for nuclear power.",NA
"Andreev said that in order to cut costs, spent fuel rods at Fukushima had been too closely stacked in pools near the nuclear reactors.",NA
So they have a problem with obtaining weapons-grade plutonium.,NA
Workers at the plant are also struggling to treat huge amounts of contaminated water used to cool melted fuel deep inside three of the plant's six reactors.,NA
"A judicial panel in Japan on 31 July said three former Tepco executives should face criminal charges for the disaster, finding they overlooked the risk of an earthquake or tsunami, and failed to take adequate measures to prevent an accident.",NA
"""During the coming weeks the programme team will focus on completing the inspections and work to build a robust case for the safe continuing operation of the boilers,"" the company said.",NA
The following morning there were blasts at reactors two and four.,NA
The fire appears to have been the biggest culprit in the release of radioactive materials.,NA
"Several high profile environmental commentators who were previously opposed to nuclear power, including Guardian columnist George Monbiot and author Mark Lynas, have changed their position in recent years and given their backing to nuclear power as a low carbon source of energy because of the urgency of tackling climate change.",NA
"But about 4,000 people could eventually die from exposure to radiation released when a reactor caught fire in the Ukrainian forest and showered Europe with a plume of radioactive particles.",NA
"Where they are taken seriously by politicians – as they have been in Japan – and cause a switch from nuclear to coal power, they kill people.",NA
"One pro-nuclear congressman, Devin Nunes, a California Republican who has called for 200 new reactors by 2040, went so far as to suggest that the crisis in Japan demonstrated the safety of nuclear power.",NA
"The average nuclear power station is four years behind schedule and runs three times over-budget, a new report out today says.",NA
"Iberdrola and Endesa, two of Spain's leading electricity companies, have been accused of cutting costs at nuclear power stations at the expense of safety.",NA
"However, the rising costs have raised questions over plans to fund a follow-up nuclear project at Sizewell C using a different financing model to Hinkley, which would put taxpayers on the hook for rising costs.",NA
"""Also, of the 39 countries with significant nuclear waste, 25 have taken final decisions on long-term policy and all have opted for geological disposal.""",NA
"However, the energy used in drilling, blasting, excavating, separating and transporting the uranium to Britain are not taken into account.",NA
"“What I worry about is 10 or 15 years down the road, do I come down with radiation sickness, or do I come down with cancer, or does my son come down with cancer?",NA
EDF poses a nuclear cost risk Quelle surprise!,NA
"In 2002, the chairman and four executives of Tepco, the company which owns the stricken Fukushima plant, resigned after reports that safety records were falsified.",NA
The utility has since reinforced the building with a huge steel canopy and insists the structure can withstand seismic events of the same intensity that shook the plant in March 2011.,NA
"The findings by Chris Busby, Paul Dorfman and Helen Rowe from Aberystwyth are part of a series of investigations into the relationships between nuclear discharges, intertidal mudflats and cancer.",NA
Nuclear plants are also expensive to build.,NA
"Late last year, however, the minister in charge of the response to the Fukushima disaster, Goshi Hosono, conceded that officials had no idea about the exact location of molten uranium fuel but assumed that it had come to rest at the bottom of its containment vessels.",NA
"Mr Johnson said: ""Labour should be controlling their soaring CO2 emissions by implementing a joined strategy of pollution reducing policies and renewable energy investment rather than the unholy nuclear alternative.",NA
"This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.",NA
"After Fukushima, everyone within 50 miles of the plant had to be evacuated.",NA
"Buesseler has measured contamination in water, fish and other organisms from a ship off the coast of Fukushima since the accident unfurled.",NA
"But cleaning up this land … will take a long time and a lot of money,"" she says.",NA
"The price of photovoltaic energy is falling at 10% a year, and in Germany a serious amount of unsubsidised, solar electricity is already being added to the grid.",NA
"After storage underwater for several years, it is packaged in very heavy sealed containers made of steel and reinforced concrete which can be stored for centuries and does not allow radioactivity to escape to the external environment.",NA
The UK government is attempting to meet both tests by building new nuclear: the cost (and any subsidies to the generating industry) have to be met either from general taxation or by higher prices for electricity.,NA
"The Lib Dems had stood out from Labour and the Tories by promising to halt any new atomic power facilities, seen by some as a vital low-carbon tool in the fight against climate change.",NA
"Together, these constitute the two greatest nuclear accidents the world has ever seen.",NA
"Nuclear is already more expensive than a number of renewable energy sources and by 2020 will be more expensive than offshore wind power, for which there is a huge potential in the UK.",NA
"In the first two years of the 12-year program, the credits are forecast to cost about $1bn and raise residential power bills by less than $2 a month, the office added.",NA
"Areas with natural resources such as coal or iron ores at depths greater than 100 metres were screened out, as were places with exploitable groundwater resources in aquifers, because of the risk of radioactive contamination.",NA
"“The whole New York metropolitan area is potentially imperiled by an accident at Indian Point,” Lyman said.",NA
But the population has noticed that the world has changed even if the government hasn't – a significant majority now opposes Trident replacement.,NA
"HSBC’s analysts described the EPR model as too big, too costly and still unproven, saying its future was bleak.",NA
"A potential ""environmental disaster"" was kept secret by the US last year when a large consignment of highly enriched uranium in Libya came close to cracking open and leaking radioactive material into the atmosphere.",NA
The government now has to drop its misguided affair with this hugely expensive pipe dream.,NA
Early stage technologies such as wave are estimated as having still higher costs.,NA
"Since 2011, Fukushima has been saddled with the staggering burden of the meltdown’s aftermath that, despite government PR, will encumber and stigmatise its citizens for at least several decades.",NA
Delays already dog progress on the Finnish reactor although the NIA remains convinced that new facilities can be built to meet the widening energy gap by 2017.,NA
"But out of all of the things that could go wrong, and they did, of all of the things that would affect the lives of the average Japanese person and affect your life, I'm trying to figure out how it (the meltdown) is even in the top three?",NA
"A chimney fire the following year spread radioactivity across the Cumbrian countryside, and Sellafield has long been a target of environmental campaigners.",NA
"The first signs of the world's largest man-made disaster are small heaps of earth, like burial mounds, on the roadside.",NA
"A recent report on nuclear physics and engineering, commissioned by Research Councils UK, stresses the need to maintain a healthy nuclear science base in Britain, and makes it clear that nuclear physics has applications across fields such as healthcare, the environment, the nuclear industry and national security.",NA
"As much as 40,000 gallons of radioactive water spilled out of a 15ft long split in a pipe, some leaking into the North Sea.",NA
"A leader from the GMB union recently told the Independent it was ""almost Orwellian"" to allow a country like China, which has been linked to allegations of corporate hacking, to be allowed access to highly sensitive energy infrastructure.",NA
"Photovoltaic electricity, he says, ""depends on arsenic and lead"" while nuclear is ""clean and green"".",NA
"It denied that extracting the plutonium oxide from the Mox fuel rods was simple, and insisted it had comprehensive security in place to prevent terrorists getting hold of Mox or plutonium.",NA
"No radioactive material was involved in the accident, however, and there was no order for the 11,500 residents of Mihama to be evacuated.",NA
"Just after 1.25am, as flames leapt 600ft into the air around the reactor hall, the alarm sounded at Fire Station No 2 of the Chernobyl plant.",NA
"'We must ensure, absolutely, that no more countries acquire these deadly weapons.",NA
"The hazardous nature of work to control the flow of radioactive water, and to prepare damaged reactors for the removal of melted nuclear fuel prompted Tepco to announce late last year that it would double daily danger money payments to $200 per worker.",NA
Russia is both initiating the creation of a new security system for the development of nuclear power and working to launch enhanced mechanisms to guarantee nuclear non-proliferation.,NA
"It can contaminate food and water and, if ingested, gets distributed around the body, where it builds up in soft tissues, such as muscles.",NA
"On the ocean side of neighbouring reactor No 4, where a meltdown did not occur, Tepco recently measured radiation at 172 microsieverts/hour; but in the same area outside reactor No 3, levels soar to 1,710 microsieverts/hour.",NA
"The most vulnerable part of the facilities at Sellafield, dating back to the 1950s, contain giant tanks of high level radioactive waste which has to be constantly cooled and stirred to prevent a chain reaction.",NA
"Calder Hall in Cumbria, the world's oldest nuclear power station, which was opened by the Queen in 1956 to herald the start of the atomic age, has closed because of safety fears.",NA
"New power plants must go hand-in-hand with greater energy efficiency.""",NA
"Dr Robert Gross, director of the centre for energy policy and technology at Imperial College, said: “Onshore wind has been coming in at remarkably low prices internationally, so a contract for difference price of around £50-60 per MWh looks perfectly feasible for a good location in the UK, one of the windiest countries in Europe.",NA
"There is no question there have been very significant and ""ongoing"" releases of this radioactive inventory.",NA
"Nuclear fusion has long held the hope of clean, safe and limitless energy and interest has increased as the challenge of climate change and the need to cut carbon emissions has become clear.",NA
"Even so, resistance to nuclear remains, and scare-stories about Chernobyl and Fukushima are too often employed as an empty rebuttal by those unwilling to countenance the situation we face.",NA
"Moreover, anti-nuclear arguments tend to be built on the idea that large-scale alternative power projects could be brought to fruition far faster.",NA
"This seems to me to be a convincing demonstration that the long-term storage of nuclear waste could, in principle, be carried out safely.",NA
8.,NA
"I think our community would be wrecked,” he says.",NA
"But it exists over a very long period of time - decades for operations, centuries or more for waste.",NA
But it is ludicrous to portray this as an easy fix - to harness and then transport electricity from the deep and hazardous waters around our coastline.,NA
"Three court of appeal judges rejected an appeal brought by the two environmental groups over a high court ruling on November 15 that the government had made ""no error of law"" in giving the go-ahead for the opening of the mixed plutonium and uranium oxide (MOX) plant at the complex in Cumbria.",NA
"Kaieda said the basement of reactor buildings and underground trenches have been flooded with 60,000 tonnes of radioactive water that will have to be pumped into alternative vessels, including waste tanks, an artificial floating island and US navy barges.",NA
"Investment in renewables would create much-needed British jobs in one of the few growth sectors in the global economy.""",NA
"Japan's nuclear safety agency said it believed partially melted fuel had fallen to the bottom of the pressure vessel, which holds the reactor core together, and may have leaked into its concrete base, known as the dry well.",NA
"Panic-mongering about the idea that the new nuclear-build will come online too late to meet the looming energy deficit rests on the idea that in 2015 or thereabouts, a sizable part of our power-generating capacity will go offline pretty much all at once.",NA
"The firm's efforts to restart other reactors received a boost from Barbara Judge, the former chair of the UK atomic energy authority, who said nuclear plants could operate safely – even in quake-prone countries such as Japan – provided the right safety measures were in place.",NA
We need to talk about who suffers up to 30 daily journeys by road of nuclear waste from Sellafield to the site or up to 80 train shipments.,NA
"What might have been just a colourful tale of shareholder angst took a different turn in 2015, when it emerged that weak spots had been found in the Flamanville reactor’s steel, which is made by another French industrial champion, Areva.",NA
"If something really bad were to happen at Indian Point, it could create the need to evacuate 21 million people.",NA
"More than 100,000 residents from the area have had to leave their homes, and are unsure when, or if, they can return.",NA
"European Union: France, Finland and Slovakia are the only European Union countries building new nuclear plants, but all the plants are delayed and over budget.",NA
"Indeed, a visit is not complete without wandering the hallowed grounds of the famous Peace Park, the epicentre of the early morning nuclear blast that killed up to 140,000 people on 6 August 1945.",NA
"In demanding an immediate moratorium on reprocessing of its spent fuel, BE called into question both BNFL's new Mox plant, which makes fuel from reprocessed plutonium and uranium, and its existing Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield, Cumbria.",NA
"In late September 1999, anti-nuclear activists in Japan and England discovered data relating to a shipment of mixed uranium-plutonium fuel manufactured at Sellafield that had been falsified by staff at British Nuclear Fuels.",NA
"Meanwhile an official for Tepco, the utility company that runs the plant, admitted the radiation leak could eventually top that of the Ukrainian disaster.",NA
"US energy policy, driven by industry lobbyists, remains committed to developing nuclear power, even as nations around the world are canceling their own nuclear plans: last month alone, Germany spent $2.15tn to abandon nuclear power, a decision taken after witnessing Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster.",NA
"Because nuclear is ""always on"", it does nothing to smooth the supply curve from wind, or to better match total supply to demand, which is also highly variable.",NA
"The energy bill will ensure we have a legislative framework enabling all of these technologies to make a positive contribution to our future requirements for cleaner, more secure energy.",NA
Experts fear renewable sources are not efficient enough to meet future needs.,NA
"Pakistan consumed just 0.39% of the world's total electricity consumption last year, but energy providers such as Pepco (a nationalised company) are still unable to cope and meet the 4,000-5,000 megawatt shortfall in electricity needed to keep powering the country.",NA
These “firm” sources of clean electricity do not need to wait for the sun to shine or the wind to blow to power the ventilators in our hospitals.,NA
"""First, there is no solution to the problem of nuclear waste, which is enormous in its acreage.",NA
"They keep saying it is nothing to be concerned about but what they have there is extremely dangerous stuff and there is a pretty deep tide of real concern about it.""",NA
"Smart meters, home and grid-scale batteries that store and release excess renewable power, and other modern solutions would be cheaper and more efficient than building new power stations to meet extra demand during relatively short periods.",NA
"The legacy of the cold war and British Nuclear Fuels operations at Sellafield are the main obstacles to safe recovery of the waste, only 15% of which has been properly dealt with.",NA
"The premier has also revealed that, should the idea be supported at a referendum, any site subsequently selected for a dump would be subject to a veto by the local Aboriginal community.",NA
"September 2004 The European commission launches legal action against the government over ""unacceptable"" failings in dealing with nuclear waste at Sellafield.",NA
None will go back online until they have passed stringent safety requirements introduced by Japan’s nuclear watchdog and overcome opposition from nearby residents.,NA
"The generation will be diverse and therefore secure, with negligible pollution, no legacy wastes and no fossil-carbon emissions.",NA
"Blair should target this first, before he leaves us a pile of radioactive waste that will take millennia to make safe.",NA
"These are all examples of the shifting of public property into private management, and ultimately private ownership, at considerable cost to the public purse and with hugely uncertain results.",NA
"Two of her companies went bust in the early 1990s and Euratom, the European agency which monitors the movements of radioactive material, noted accounting discrepancies during inspections of the firms more than 10 years ago, yet little was done.",NA
"These rules all require large amounts of shielding for the nuclear reactor, push up the price of waste disposal and place limits on how long technicians can work in certain high-risk areas.",NA
"If nuclear power is going to survive in the electricity market without subsidies and guarantees, market forces should prevent a nuclear operator exploiting its position.",NA
"By rescuing the weakest and least flexible company in the industry, the government prevents the market adjusting and penalises every other generator and the public.",NA
"This takes 50 years to cool down before it can be considered for storing in long-term repositories or for disposal in deep holes in the ground, for which sites have yet to be found.",NA
"Kimiko Hirata, the international director of Kiko Network, said: “Governments that have signed the Paris agreement must now legislate to keep fossil fuels in the ground and strongly support policies which lead to 100% renewable energy.",NA
"Much of the reason for this is ideological – Greenpeace is but one organisation that has been criticised for releasing misleading anti-nuclear information, claiming that up to 200,000 deaths are attributable to Chernobyl.",NA
Critics complain that granting the multimillion-pound contract to a private consortium while freeing it of liability for a nuclear incident is such a poor deal for the taxpayer that it will render its new management unaccountable.,NA
"After it emerged there was still no legally binding contract for EDF and its Chinese partners to invest in Hinkley Point, Lynne Featherstone, a peer and former coalition minister, claimed the tidal scheme would last for longer than a nuclear station and ensure security of supply.",NA
"He says he is driven to his new love by the imperative of battling climate change, and what he sees as the inability of renewable energy to run viable economies.",NA
"Carmencita Bariso, assistant director of the Department of Energy's planning bureau, says that, despite the Fukushima accident, her organisation has continued with a study on the viability, safety and social acceptability of nuclear energy.",NA
"Without a strong and effective regulator, the risk of a large release of radioactivity increases.""",NA
“The bitter reality is that there is no scientifically proven way of disposing of the existential problem of high- and intermediate-level waste.,NA
"After several months of global concern about the outcome of Fukushima, attention turned from the radiation leak itself – it is now estimated that Fukushima released about a tenth of the radiation expelled into the atmosphere at Chernobyl – to a fallout of a different kind.",NA
Every energy technology carries a cost; so does the absence of energy technologies.,NA
"In the past, because the bill for waste would not be incurred for five, 10 or even 50 years the cost of clean-up or disposal could be discounted by accountants.",NA
"""New nuclear build is a key part of RWE npower's commitment to meet the UK's energy needs and to reduce carbon dioxide intensity.",NA
They would purify other elements used for medical and scientific purposes.,NA
"""Security of supply is a public good: it's a system property; it will not be provided by the market left to its own devices,"" he says.",NA
"The just-over-the-horizon timeframe normally cited is 30 years, but the MIT team believe they can halve this by using new superconducting materials to produce ultra-powerful magnets, one of the main components of a fusion reactor.",NA
"Levent Rexin, 36, who has lived near the power plant all his life, said: ""Our government wants us to be nuclear-free, but the industry doesn't pay for it, the government doesn't pay for it, we have to pay for it.",NA
"""If this can help lift people's spirits even just a little, then I'm happy to do whatever I can to help.""",NA
"Yukio Edano, the chief government spokesman, said the myriad problems at the plant were no closer to being resolved.",NA
"Its ideological mis sion was to drive down the generated cost of electricity, full stop.",NA
The Iraqi government cannot meet the needs of residents served by antiquated electricity networks and water distribution that need an overhaul.,NA
"A new poll published on Friday suggests that globally, just 22% of people agree that ""nuclear power is relatively safe and an important source of electricity"".",NA
"We’re being softened up to accept a nuclear fuel dump The final theory, harder to test against the evidence, is that this new nuclear push in Australia isn’t about climate change at all, but that in fact we’re being softened up for a sustained campaign to build one or more spent nuclear fuel dumps in outback Australia.",NA
The 2020 renewables target made sense when it was set: it has helped the early investment needed for immature renewable technologies and played a part in driving down the costs of key technologies like solar PV and onshore wind.,NA
"Greg Clark, the business secretary, said the backing would help the nuclear sector compete globally.",NA
"Since the start of the Energiewende, or energy transformation project, domestic demand for renewable energy has grown by about 3% per annum.",NA
The campaign faces two challenges: the huge cost of construction and the lack of permanent storage for nuclear waste.,NA
But we have yet to see a single nuclear power station come in on budget.,NA
He has not disguised his belief that nuclear power is vital to the UK's future energy policy.,NA
"Once in a while, he'd pass the Chernobyl plant and, just out of curiosity, turn on the dosimeter that measured radiation inside the cockpit; there was never a flicker.",NA
"Vital though renewables are, alone they cannot fill our future electricity gap.",NA
"Torness, which opened in 1988, was scheduled to close in 2023 but two years ago EDF Energy announced it was extending the plant’s lifetime to 2030 to maintain secure electricity supplies.",NA
"These difficulties paint a calamitous picture of the industry and Brown has a grim view of the plan for new reactors: ""Whatever the government's assurances ... nuclear newbuild will involve heavy government subsidies and unlimited liability for the British taxpayer.""",NA
"They know about Chernobyl, radiation, and the nuclear waste problem.",NA
"E.on and RWE are huge, blue-chip multinationals, yet see nuclear as too big a gamble and that's despite the substantial subsidy it would enjoy in the UK, alongside other low-carbon energy projects.",NA
"Simon Hughes, Blackpool and Fylde's head of engineering and computing, describes the government's backing of nuclear new-build as ""music to our ears"" in terms of supporting the local economy.",NA
Safety authorities ranked the accident as a mere four on the international scale of nuclear accidents.,NA
"Nuclear-powered submarines are deployed by the UK with both conventional and nuclear weapons, both of which command widespread support from the public in an increasingly uncertain world.",NA
"White blood cell counts were lowest for immature monkeys with the highest caesium concentrations, suggesting younger monkeys may be more vulnerable to radioactive contamination.",NA
"Kirk Sorensen argues that thorium reactors offer ""greater safety, vastly reduced waste and much higher fuel efficiency.",NA
"It's a much better route to go than so-called 'sustainable development', which is meaningless drivel.""",NA
"Of the old people who relocated, one Chernobyl medical technician, whose job is to give annual radiation exposure tests to zone workers said: “Quite simply, they die of anguish.”",NA
"Mr Jeffrey calculates that it would take three to five years to get planning consent to build new plant on existing sites such as Hunterston, Ayrshire, which closes down in 2011 and a further four to six years to build the new stations.",NA
He said the government wanted to “ensure that the siting process has sufficient flexibility to identify the safest location for a GDF over the lifetime of the facility”.,NA
"Jefferson was among several hundred people at a meeting in Maryport, Cumbria, who gasped when two geology professors showed a map of potential facilities scarring Ennerdale, one of the wildest and most beautiful parts of the Lakes.",NA
"Policymakers need to be alert to the dangers and to construct policies that bring secure low-carbon energy and a stable nuclear weapons environment,"" he said.",NA
There has been increasing concern over the state of the tanks and £100m has been spent on a new building to enable them to be emptied.,NA
"But there are grounds, most paradoxically environmental reasons, why ministers and the market might view the nuclear option more favourably in years to come and objections to building new power plants may be overcome.",NA
"Before an earthquake and tsunami sent three of Fukushima Daiichi’s six reactors into meltdown, nuclear was at the core of Japan’s emissions strategy.",NA
Its consultation paper said that tried-and-tested technology did not yet exist to allow for the safe long-term disposal of plutonium in an underground repository.,NA
"The neutron generator could then produce isotopes for use by other laboratories, hence the reference to market samples.",NA
"These countries, they pointed out, are making extra investments in both energy efficiency and renewables to fill the gap left by their abandonment of nuclear power.",NA
"If Saudi Arabia is able to mine sufficient uranium domestically, rather than relying on foreign providers, it could give the kingdom a boost toward creating its own weapons programme, experts say.",NA
A host of ways to manage intermittency are routinely priced at a small fraction of the growing cost advantage of renewable energy.,NA
"The Zaporizhia plant might itself be used as a defensive position by fleeing Ukrainian soldiers he said, adding: “Of course, there could be a natural disaster if the fighting comes there.”",NA
"Kazakhstan's rebranding comes at a time of reviving interest in nuclear power worldwide, with even some prominent greens calling it a crucial source of carbon-free energy.",NA
The fires at Fukushima have also triggered serious criticism of the plant's design.,NA
"Earlier this week officials in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, said they had found abnormally high levels of strontium-90 in sediment on the roof of a block of flats.",NA
A committee set up to examine radiation safety said action was needed to deal with new information about risks from radioactive particles that could be swallowed or inhaled.,NA
Nuclear enthusiasts ignore the impacts of uranium mining.,NA
"The IEA’s “450 scenario”, in which the levels of atmospheric carbon stay within safe limits, China’s non-fossil energy would triple between today and 2030.",NA
"Here's how he crunches the numbers: ""If one nuclear exchange as described above occurs over the next 30 years, the net carbon emissions due to nuclear weapons proliferation caused by the expansion of nuclear energy worldwide would be 1.1–4.1g CO2 per kWh, where the energy generation assumed is the annual 2005 generation for nuclear power multiplied by the number of year being considered.""",NA
"Last week, grid operators warned the phase-out could result in winter blackouts – a prospect Merkel scoffed at .",NA
"""Our renewables industry has been left to wither on the vine while our European neighbours have raced ahead, creating new jobs as well as fighting climate change and securing their energy supplies,"" said Jim Footner, senior climate campaigner at Greenpeace.",NA
"Britain - despite its massive indigenous deep-mine coal reserves - has never had an integrated energy policy based on coal and renewables, and as a consequence we are now facing the worst energy crisis in our history.",NA
"But experts said the government's more aggressive tax will result in higher costs sooner, bigger windfall profits and more households in fuel poverty.",NA
"Yet despite this, the inherent dangers of pumping highly explosive materials from under the oceans means accidents happen, from the gigantic blowouts like the Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, to the weekly leaks that foul the North Sea.",NA
"A Greenpeace spokesman said: ""The generic design assessment [GDA] process has already unearthed a string of nasty surprises within the new nuclear reactors' designs.",NA
But renewables cannot provide the stable excess capacity needed to deal with short-term surges in demand.,NA
"To do so would be to pass on to the next generation the burden and cost of indefinitely securing, monitoring and repackaging these wastes, which is profoundly unethical and unsustainable.",NA
An independent review in 2018 said the government should back the plans but a 2017 study by the consortium partner Atkins found that the electricity produced from the small reactors would be a third more expensive than traditional plants.,NA
"""Radiation on the other hand is much more sinister and, depending on the intensity and type, it could be deadly.""",NA
"Since 1962 more than 6m miles have been clocked up in moving spent nuclear fuel across Britain by rail without incident but the report warned that this was no ""excuse for complacency"".",NA
"Supporters of the nuclear industry will be apoplectic about the report on the Chernobyl legacy by John Vidal (UN accused of ignoring 500,000 deaths, March 25).",NA
Up on the cliff overlooking the Fukushima plant is a bleak reminder of an ongoing battle at the site.,NA
"Dr Paul Dorfman Co-ordinator, Nuclear Consulting Group • Although the risk of floods to nuclear power stations must not be ignored, a much more dangerous threat is that of a tsunami.",NA
"Golby says these nuclear companies could take their designs to countries such as India and China, where there are fewer barriers to their construction.",NA
Tepco's share price has halved and public confidence in its handling of the situation has dived.,NA
"The plant operates at scarcely more than atmospheric pressure, so it can't blow its top.",NA
"Whether people are in favour of nuclear fission power or not we can all agree we want it to be as safe as possible, which is why leaving Euratom makes no sense.",NA
"A report by the influential thinktank close to New Labour, the IPPR, suggested a plane flown into the intermediate level waste stores at Sellafield could lead to 30,000 deaths within two days.",NA
"Even in the teeth of the credit crunch, industry experts say the power giants are unlikely to face funding difficulties; they will probably draw on their own balance sheets to pay for the first stages of development and although John Hutton, the Business Secretary, has ruled out subsidies, there will be incentives such as a cap on the amount firms will have to pay to dismantle reactors.",NA
"It is easy to imagine that a fireball swept through the nerve centre of the Chernobyl power plant's reactor No 4 on theday of the world's worst atomic accident, 25 years ago.",NA
"The NDA said that Wylfa and Oldbury were performing well, and pointed to figures which showed that last year they generated the most electricity in their history.",NA
Three former executives from Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) have been charged with contributing to deaths and injuries stemming from the triple meltdown in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.,NA
The UK has illegal levels of air pollution and successive governments have fought us in the courts rather than tackling it effectively.,NA
A former university classmate of his served at the disaster site as a policeman and got radiation poisoning.,NA
Fewer parts mean less likelihood of something breaking.,NA
"With North Sea oil and gas running out, renewable power proving slow to generate, and the Kyoto treaty demanding carbon cuts to combat global warming, the public has come to support nuclear power despite the inherent physical dangers.",NA
"Instead of creating green jobs, these firms are shedding them.",NA
“These modifications will also achieve significant savings for UK taxpayers.,NA
"The UK government has made a number of supportive statements about retaining our excellence in fusion research and development, as well as a firm commitment to continue paying the UK’s fair share of Jet costs beyond 2018.",NA
"In the short term, they provide the cleanest source of power we have available.",NA
"Activists say neither the waste containers nor the Gorleben site, a temporary storage facility, are safe.",NA
"The government's safety watchdog is cracking down on Britain's biggest and oldest nuclear complex after a series of radioactive leaks and safety blunders, despite private sector managers receiving multimillion-pound ""performance-related"" payments from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.",NA
The book ends with an impassioned call for the world to learn the lessons of Chernobyl and for the countries beyond the west that are now developing nuclear energy capacity to pay heed to safety concerns.,NA
NMP says the leak was small and there was no threat to human safety.,NA
"""The cost of the Fukushima cleanup and damages ranges from $250bn [£150bn] to $500bn and rising,"" he said.",NA
"In atomic bombs, uranium is enriched much more than fuel, to about 85% uranium-235.",NA
But Cowley says we still face a 30-year wait for the magic day when we flick a switch and electricity generated from fusion flows from the socket.,NA
"Working with Greenpeace International in 2001, he gave evidence in Japan against the used of mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel, known as MOX, in a reactor at Fukushima.",NA
"With climate change creeping to the top of the agenda and demand for new nuclear plants around the world growing, it seemed like a good idea.",NA
"But Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), said ""We cannot see the logic behind the government's support for a technology that former promoters in Europe, and other technologically advanced nations, are now applying brakes to.",NA
"The end goal is about prosperity in terms of greater wellbeing, in terms of greater equality, in terms of having a cleaner environment, in terms of having more security for your kids in the future.""",NA
"It will be impossible for the UK to meet its long-term carbon reduction target without reusing the nation's stockpile of plutonium, the former government chief scientist has warned.",NA
"The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday, partly to sell Washington’s new position to sceptical Israeli officials, who fear that even a scaled-back Iranian programme would offer cover for building a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the eastern Mediterranean.",NA
It will power 6m homes for nearly 60 years and consumers won’t pay a penny until it is up and running.,NA
"Sir David Wallace, vice-president of the Royal Society said: ""It is inevitable that a robust and flexible long-term management strategy will require further research but this must not be used as an excuse to delay the implementation of a disposal programme, including the process of identifying suitable sites.",NA
He cites the example of Japan's increasing coal use – the dirtiest fuel in terms of carbon emissions.,NA
"Other peer-reviewed studies have documented a dramatic increase in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the aftermath of US military bombardment.",NA
"Crucially, the price gas and coal operators pay to emit carbon pollution is also far too low to give nuclear an advantage.",NA
"Roy Payne, the executive director of GDF Watch, which is monitoring the siting process, said even if parks were not ruled out, the chance of the facility being built beneath one was “close to zero”, given local communities had the final say.",NA
The government has insisted it has no intention of introducing nuclear power to Australia after releasing a paper that states the technology continues to be an option for “future reliable energy”.,NA
Because of advances in technology I suspect you'd probably need fewer sites than you would in the olden times.',NA
"The radioactive isotope, which has a half-life of 29 years, can accumulate in the bones and cause bone cancer and leukaemia.",NA
"Three incidents were recorded last year, all at Sellafield, Cumbria, including a large leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel which forced the closure of the Thorp reprocessing plant in April.",NA
"The theatre of that aside, the levels within the zone are safe – given that you stay only for a short time.",NA
"Manmohan Singh, speaking at a conference of atomic scientists in Delhi, announced that 470,000MW of energy could come from Indian nuclear power stations by 2050 — more than 100 times the current output from India's current 17 reactors.",NA
"Miles Warren, director of Active Collection Bureau, in Sittingbourne, Kent - where the first 20-tonne shipment will be gathered within weeks if the application is approved - said there would be many sources of scrapped uranium components.",NA
"The government announced its approval of the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations in January, along with a series of measures designed to attract the support of the private sector investors who will be expected to pay for the new reactors and their eventual decommissioning costs.",NA
"The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones accused the artists of “feasting, once more, on the apocalyptic image of nuclear disaster” and suggested they would do more good “starting a discussion with science about the pros and cons of nuclear energy as a solution to global warming”.",NA
"The latest report was released as Japan prepared to mark 10 years since a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and triggered the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl a quarter of a century earlier.",NA
"Radioactive dust and particles were recorded in the greater Tokyo area but posed no risk to health, the government said on Sunday.",NA
No other country will accept the tonnes of waste produced here and more innovative options (firing the waste into space or dropping it into a crevice in the earth's crust) remain either too dangerous or in the realms of science fiction.,NA
"We are focused on so-called steam-assisted gravity drainage, which is much more akin to conventional reservoir engineering … therefore the environmental footprint on the ground is no more or worse than normal oil or gas operation.""",NA
"The company added that the project, Hinkley Point C, “is a unique asset for French industry as it would benefit the whole of the nuclear industry and support employment in major companies and smaller enterprises in the sector”.",NA
"That deal has now backfired spectacularly, pushing Westinghouse and its parent company to the brink of financial collapse.",NA
"Third, we consider the government's haste to approve a new generation of reactors before solving the nuclear waste problem undermines its previous willingness to respond so positively to CoRWM's widespread public consultation.",NA
"A spokeswoman for the German company, Preussen Elektra, which runs the power station at Unterweser near the Dutch border, said: ""BNFL had always assured us that there was no indication of falsified safety documents.",NA
"We should not keep it alive artificially with government subsidies,” Andrä Rupprechter, Austria’s minister of agriculture and forestry, environment and water, told me.",NA
"To be sure, tidal power generation is costly, but even the government’s own 2010 feasibility study suggested the proposed cost of a Severn tidal energy production would come under the rocketing bill for Hinkley Point.",NA
There is no doubt that nuclear is good for achieving climate goals and augmenting the variable nature of renewables.,NA
"On 26 March, Germany witnessed its largest ever anti-nuclear demonstration when 250,000 people marched demanding that the government ""heed Fukushima"".",NA
"He also objects to the turbines on aesthetic grounds, as they would ""have a dominating and overbearing impact"", and complains that local people will suffer from the noise of the turbines.",NA
"Nuclear power requires obedience, not transparency.",NA
"Even now, at the start of a decommissioning operation that is expected to last 40 years, the plant faces a shortage of workers qualified to manage the dangerous work that lies ahead.",NA
"EDF said the mud had been tested by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), an executive agency of the UK government, in 2009, 2013 and 2017, and the levels of radioactivity were found to be so low that they equated to “not radioactive” under British law.",NA
This smacks of giant political bias in favour of nuclear rather than wind power.,NA
"If inhaled, plutonium, a byproduct of uranium fission, can linger in internal organs and bones and cause cancer.",NA
"In other words, it is likely to cause energy blight.",NA
"Many experts question whether that schedule is realistic, and there is a risk of shortages as old power stations are decommissioned.",NA
"Officials insisted that no radiation escaped when steam leaked from cooling pipes at the Mihama plant in Fukui prefecture, but the plant's owner faced criticism after it was revealed the pipes had not been inspected since 1996.",NA
"""There was no sudden rise in radiation because of the ventilation activities,"" Edano said, adding that there was no immediate threat to human health.",NA
"Nor does it answer the objections raised by Greenpeace, which holds that 12 plants in eastern Europe are dangerous and should be decommissioned.",NA
This idea is so sensible that it is a wonder it is still regarded as vaguely controversial.,NA
"Had these been armed terrorists with bombs, rather than peace activists with paint tins, southern England would now be in serious peril of unchecked nuclear fallout.",NA
"European nuclear industry groups insist that plant safety is a strictly national affair under EU law, and say that EU stress tests of three Belgian nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster – as well as Belgium’s more recent examinations of its reactors – should give confidence in plant safety.",NA
The liquid waste comes from Britain’s nuclear power stations and generates significant amounts of heat.,NA
"An Amec spokesman said: ""The electrodes effectively melt the contaminated soil and waste, destroying all organic contaminants through pyrolysis [chemical decomposition caused by high temperatures] and catalytic reactions, and in the process it permanently immobilises all hazardous inorganic and radioactive contaminants.""",NA
"She said: ""The prosecution has highlighted serious failures in management systems, auditing control and safety monitoring and these failings have continued over a number of years.",NA
"If uranium is in solution, it could make its way into groundwater.",NA
Cardiff University this month found that many local people are concerned about the risk of cancer from living near a reactor.,NA
There is nothing in the NPT that forbids uranium enrichment.,NA
It blamed lower output and the higher cost of remedial work at two nuclear stations for the decline.,NA
New stations would take a decade to build at £2bn each.,NA
"We are all on the same planet, we have a ballooning population, diminishing resources and a changing climate, and we really need to grow up and see the situation for what it is.",NA
"He said greenhouse gas emissions, which have continued to rise despite the financial crisis and deep recession in the developed world, were ""nowhere near"" falling to the level that would be needed to avert dangerous climate change.",NA
"It's carrying plutonium, the most dangerous substance on the planet.",NA
"Dr Robin Russell-Jones, chair, Help Rescue the Planet Marlow, Buckinghamshire Your business leader identified the key problem in the building of new nuclear power stations – that the government meant it to be funded by the private sector.",NA
Recovering the liquids and fixing the pipes will take months.,NA
"It is a scientific collaboration on a worldwide scale, meant to tackle one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – with the human population growing every year, how do we continue to make ever more electricity past 2050 (the date that the EU has set for full decarbonisation of power generation) without destroying the environment?",NA
"The major concern when molten fuel breaches a containment vessel is that it reacts with the concrete floor of the drywell underneath, releasing radioactive gases into the surrounding area.",NA
"“It has thorium, a potential nuclear fuel.”",NA
Handling nuclear waste and decommissioning the plants has never been fully costed: Britain could be faced with a £30bn shortfall.,NA
"Is he unaware that nuclear-power generated electricity is the most expensive form of energy - 400% more expensive than coal - or that it received £6bn in subsidies, with £70bn to be paid by taxpayers in decommissioning costs?",NA
"“The public, and our members, will want reassurance that the termination process and uncertainty over the future of decommissioning will not lead to standards deteriorating or the loss of UK expertise.”",NA
Solar and onshore wind power prices have plummeted in recent years and are now about one-third that of nuclear.,NA
"All six of the reactors at Fukushima are experiencing problems following the earthquake and tsunami, in which an estimated 10,000 people died.",NA
"When you’ve used all that up, you go to thorium, and that would last you three times as long as uranium – so, shall we say, about 200 years?”",NA
Access to reliable and cheap sources of energy is a major condition for sustainable economic development of any country.,NA
“It’s not just the number of accidents that has been on the rise.,NA
"But even though such reactors can reduce the degree of hazard the waste poses, they do not solve the issue entirely.",NA
The country's biggest electricity producer saw third-quarter pre-tax losses escalate to £87m - compared with £10m during the same period last year - as it was hit by power cuts at its Hartlepool and Heysham 1 stations.,NA
"'This is a nuclear-free land and yet if anything happens to that plant, the east coast of Ireland is straight in the firing line,' she says.",NA
"The deal means Hinkley would be an “absolute goldmine” when operational, Atherton said.",NA
"One estimate suggests that by 2020, Germany will have produced an extra 300 million tonnes of CO2 as a result of its nuclear closure: equivalent to almost all the savings that will be made in the 27 member states as a result of the EU's energy efficiency directive.",NA
"Oxera calculates that a new-build programme of eight reactors would generate 22 per cent of UK energy by 2025, but that industry could expect only an 11 per cent return - well below the 18 per cent seen at onshore wind farms.",NA
"Harold Hutchinson, a utilities analyst with Investec Securities, is also deeply sceptical about the UK's nuclear strategy.",NA
"In fact, the whole life output of CO2 from nuclear, including decommissioning and fuelling, may be very significant indeed, depending on the grade of ore used to produce the fuel.",NA
Successive governments have failed to come up with a policy for dealing with nuclear waste.,NA
Nuclear power is obviously risky.,NA
"Max Hastings' arguments are wrong in many ways (Nuclear power is the future, May 30).",NA
"Although the use of nuclear power cuts carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, it creates radioactive waste, which needs safekeeping for several thousand years.",NA
"""Most of [the Fukushima radiation] was blown over the Pacific Ocean, and thyroid doses in the most-affected areas are low compared to Chernobyl.",NA
"These glimmers of hope were set against grim new casualty figures – 6,900 people are confirmed dead and thousands more are reported missing – that have made the disaster the worst in more than 60 years.",NA
"But over the past six years, the UK, US, France and Russia have all announced that they are prepared to use their nukes pre-emptively against a presumed threat, even from states that do not possess nuclear weapons.",NA
National Grid said it was extending its search for additional sources of temporary supplies to keep the lights on and support heavy industries that use large amounts of electricity.,NA
"He contributed dozens of articles to New Scientist and the Guardian, all of them highlighting the rapid advance in technologies of mass destruction and the mechanisms that could spark global thermonuclear war.",NA
"""If gas, as well as renewables, were to fill the gap, how comfortable will we be relying on imports for 80% of our supplies?""",NA
"""[They] are going to be suffering very high radiation exposures.""",NA
"And in rejecting the proposal on Monday afternoon, the FERC declared that despite claims by the administration to the contrary, there is no evidence that any past or planned retirements of coal-fired power plants pose a threat to reliability of the nation’s electricity grid.",NA
"“It is not comprehensible that a less sensitive ultrasonic technique should not detect large flaws,” wrote Ilse Tweer, a former adviser to the Austrian government.",NA
"The Evolution view reinforces concerns expressed by other investment specialists such as Citigroup, which has previously questioned the economics of building new nuclear plants.",NA
Many of the evacuees are unlikely to return home.,NA
Monday's report – a summary of which has been seen by the Guardian – is designed to persuade the NDA that the Prism is technically credible and commercially attractive.,NA
"The nuclear task force's head, Goshi Hosono, said Tepco had failed to adequately protect plant workers early on in the crisis, and had provided inadequate information about radiation leaks.",NA
Cumbria's tourism board has joined the growing clamour against any further research into the burying of nuclear power station waste within the borders of the Lake District national park.,NA
"A paper from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the partially state-funded body that manages the UK's legacy nuclear sites, said that using the fuel domestically would have the advantage of reducing transport costs and security concerns.",NA
"""So you don't need to have any more.",NA
"Doug Parr, chief scientific officer at Greenpeace, said: ""For all the claims of the government that it will be the power giants like EDF that will foot the cost of the next generation of nuclear, the reality yet again is that the hard-pressed taxpayer will end up footing the bill.""",NA
"Moves to boost hydrogen production, with the promise of a town heated entirely by hydrogen by the end of the decade.",NA
"Modifications to the San Onofre nucler plan were unsafe and posed a danger to the eight million people living within 50 miles of the plant,"" she said in a statement.",NA
Problems began when Friday's massive earthquake knocked out electricity at the Fukushima No 1 power station.,NA
Unless carbon capture and storage really takes off – and even then it does not eliminate carbon emissions from fossil fuel use – the choice is simply nuclear power or high greenhouse gas emissions.,NA
"The Committee on Climate Change is also right to highlight the fact that the current lack of a long-term political vision is jeopardising investment in renewable energy projects - including the development of the supply chain which could create tens of thousands of jobs in wind and marine energy, with turbine factories opening around the UK.",NA
"Under massive popular pressure, the German government decided to end its nuclear programme on moral grounds: it was simply unethical to put its people under threat from a Fukushima-type disaster.",NA
"There was only one incident in each quarter of 2010, three at Sellafield and one at Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent.",NA
"The nuclear industry yesterday received a vote of no confidence when AEA Technology, a safety adviser to BNFL and the Ministry of Defence, announced plans to bale out of decommissioning and radioactive waste disposal.",NA
"For example, reactors of this type can be smaller than conventional uranium reactors, partly thanks to their low-pressure operation.",NA
Previously both Conservative and Labour governments have said waste arising as a result of lucrative nuclear fuel reprocessing contracts at Sellafield in Cumbria should be returned to the country of origin.,NA
I am all for it.,NA
"Given the trauma of the March 2011 tsunami disaster, Japan's nuclear shutdown is understandable – if regrettable from a global warming perspective.",NA
We hope to reach break-even point in five years.,NA
"“While elevated tritium in the ground onsite is not in accordance with our standards, there is no health or safety consequence to the public,” Entergy said in a statement released late Saturday.",NA
"""Nirex has made it clear that all of the sites considered geologically suitable in the past could just as easily be considered suitable in the future.",NA
"Subramaniam wrote in the Times of India: Given India's uranium ore crunch and the need to build up our minimum credible deterrent as fast as possible, it is to India's advantage to categorise as many power reactors as possible as civilian ones to be refuelled by imported uranium and conserve our native uranium fuel for weapon-grade plutonium production.",NA
She said alternative sources of supply “would be unlikely to present a significant increase” in energy bills for delays known about before 2021.,NA
"When in 50 years time our grandchildren start to clear up the mess that this new generation of nuclear power will make, they may well wonder if we saw things clearly.",NA
"The 70 or so technicians and engineers, known as the Fukushima 50, have been working under the constant threat of radiation sickness, fires and explosions since they became the sole occupants of an area that has become a no-go zone for tens of thousands of petrified residents.",NA
"The report found no evidence of decreased fertility among the affected population, nor an increase in congenital malformations.",NA
Rosatom also claims the platform is “virtually unsinkable” and able to withstand collisions with icebergs and the impact of a seven-metre wave.,NA
9.,NA
Plaintiffs cited a government report showing that Tepco had predicted in June 2008 that the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be hit by tsunami waves of up to 15.7 metres in height following a major offshore earthquake.,NA
"Fellow Labour MP Alan Whitehead, who is a member of the energy and climate change select committee, wrote in a blog that the capacity market system was far too expensive and was five times more than a previous government plan to set up an emergency ""strategic reserve"".",NA
"""We run a serious risk that some day someone will go into the living room, flick the switch and and nothing will happen because we do not have the capability to generate any energy from any source at all,"" said Mr Darling.",NA
"It's a flip of the tortilla indeed when opponents of nuclear power, of all people, are accused of insensitivity to individual human fates and of delighting in the very apocalypse they are warning against.",NA
"In 1954 the nuclear industry, shielded from public scrutiny by the Official Secrets Act, behaved as if it were based on an uninhabited planet.",NA
We were pushing the limits of technology and have gained immense experience and expertise that could still be invaluable to Britain.',NA
"Because if we want to keep the planet safe, we either need to leave most of the remaining fossil fuel in the ground undisturbed, or burn it and capture the carbon.",NA
"This same document covers the safety angle: ""Everyday emissions into the air are safe.",NA
"On the same day, writing in the Guardian's climate change supplement Brown asserts building new nuclear power plants as a ""stark reality,"" in face of increasing oil insecurity and the threat of climate change, conceding that it is a ""controversial move"".",NA
"""One critical safety issue is the maintenance of water cooling systems to ensure that the nuclear fuel inside the reactor core does not heat up to unsafe levels,"" said Shaun Burnie, a consultant to the nuclear industry.",NA
Fisheries scientists describe the impact of new nuclear power stations on the marine ecosystem as ‘insignificant’.”,NA
"The French state-owned company said a new plant at Sizewell on the Suffolk coast would be cheaper because of replication in construction techniques, existing grid connections and the exploration of new finance models.",NA
"""Everyone knows just one accident and the industry will be shut down for 20 years.""",NA
"John Ainslie, from the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, who uncovered the original McFarlane report, said the new reactor would push up costs for the Trident replacement fleet by billions of pounds, since it would need designing and testing.",NA
along with enough others to ensure that we will now for ever have enough nuclear missiles to destroy the world eleventy billion times over.,NA
"This would solve the contractual problems and avoid power shortages in Germany, but leaves British Nuclear Group with several hundred tonnes of German spent fuel in its Sellafield storage ponds.",NA
"“A large number of workers have been brought in to decontaminate the village, so that residents can return, but when I look at what they are doing, the situation seems hopeless,” said Nobuyoshi Ito, an environment specialist who carries out independent radiation tests on crops in the evacuated village of Iitate.",NA
Others have built new lives elsewhere and see no compelling reason to return to areas whose economies were ruined by the disaster.,NA
"Like a good war epic, Chernobyl was deft at letting us see that a character was walking into hell just before they realised it, or showing us the moving sight of a lowly functionary knowing they were doomed, but fulfilling their duty anyway.",NA
Even just as a lay-person you can see it is just in a dreadful state ...,NA
"That month, a joint paper to Sage from the Office of Nuclear Regulation, the Met Office, the HPA and Rimnet stated: ""The mechanism that could lead to a serious release remains unchanged, ie molten fuel coming into contact with the concrete base of a pond or reactor causing an explosion.""",NA
"“It’s one of those deal where my children, and my children’s children, are going to be thinking ‘was that a good deal?’",NA
"""There remains a lack of confidence that the high hazards are being tackled to a robust programme,"" it said.",NA
"The UK government argues that new nuclear power is essential to provide large amounts of reliable, low-carbon energy.",NA
"In February, David MacKay, the chief scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) told the Guardian there was enough energy in the UK's waste stockpile to power the country for more than 500 years.",NA
"Let's all go nuclear, it's the only way.",NA
And it's unnecessary.,NA
"Principally, it is an argument against producing any more of this material, which brings us back to the core of the argument: maybe we no longer actually need the nuclear industry, or its intergenerational liabilities, if ever we did.",NA
"Building without a solution to the waste problem is also irresponsible.""",NA
How perverse to axe support for wind and solar just as it nears viability.,NA
"Germany's own carbon emissions will rise, because the phase-out of nuclear power between now and 2022 will force an increased reliance on fossil fuels, such as coal and gas.",NA
"Montague admitted the performance of the nuclear power stations was ""disappointing"", with Hartlepool and Heysham's difficulties coming on top of boiler problems at Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B.",NA
"Before an announcement in the House of Commons, Clark said: “Having thoroughly reviewed the proposal for Hinkley Point C, we will introduce a series of measures to enhance security and will ensure Hinkley cannot change hands without the government’s agreement.",NA
And what of the other costs?,NA
"Windfarms are ""extremely inefficient and costly"" and will not be able to replace gas or nuclear power generation, according to a letter sent by the Conservative energy minister, John Hayes, which reveals the extent of his antipathy to the technology.",NA
Mr Cooper says all the recent cuts in greenhouse gases from Britain have been caused by the switch from coal to gas and nuclear.,NA
"In a statement to the Associated Press, the company said it was committed to safe operations.",NA
"“All the evidence shows that EDF are completely willing to say whatever it takes to keep the UK and Chinese governments happy, but are seemingly unable to build a reactor that works on budget and on time.”",NA
German chancellor Angela Merkel must alter her pro-nuclear stance.,NA
"Now the MoD has told the Guardian about another two inadvertent releases of radioactivity, both of which were hitherto unknown.",NA
"A spokesman for the French company said a 2018 start date for new British plants could be adjusted but there was no reason to assume the £20bn plans for Sizewell, Suffolk, and Hinkley Point, Somerset, would be hit by similar problems as those seen in France.",NA
"Tepco, meanwhile, appears to making progress in reaching its self-imposed deadline of between six and nine months to stabilise the Fukushima plant and achieve ""cold shutdown"".",NA
• Accident plans could not cope with multiple plant failures.,NA
"Incidents such as these are among the reasons Cuomo wants it closed, and Indian Point is now in a vulnerable position.",NA
"Robin Webster of Friends of the Earth added: ""Peddling a new generation of coal-fired power stations before we even know if carbon capture and storage is going to work is dangerous and misleading.",NA
"It’s time for clear, transparent criteria for making energy choices which, when applied, will maximise economic benefits to the country, meet climate change obligations, boost security in terms of both having a dependable, efficient energy system, in warding off terrorist threats and the dangers of nuclear proliferation recently highlighted.",NA
"“Looking after the waste for 100 years is credible,” he says.",NA
"Ministers said last week that nuclear can and would compete with rival technologies, such as offshore wind, the price of which has reached a record low.",NA
The worst thing you can have is a situation where the state bends over backwards to [financially] support nuclear.,NA
The problem with nuclear power is that it is both expensive and the industry takes a decade or more to find sites and get planning permissions.,NA
"As long as this government identifies nuclear power as essential to tackling climate change, supporters and potential investors of other technologies will hold back, fearing that the market and public funds will sooner or later be skewed to deliver nuclear power.",NA
The spillage was one of more than 50 malfunctions at the plant in the immediate aftermath of the quake.,NA
The only difference from CO2 is that it's easier to see nuclear waste.,NA
"But nearly 20 years later, the deserted streets of Pripyat remain at the heart of a 30km exclusion zone, protected by three paramilitary checkpoints: the most radioactive town on earth.",NA
"The trade and industry minister, Yukio Edano, has said, however, the country can survive the summer free of power cuts even without nuclear power.",NA
Nuclear now has powerful advocates around government who say it is the best way to survive climate change.,NA
"Society, however, would be better served by allocating resources to generate the same economic activity with less energy and consequently less pollution.",NA
It is shocking that the nuclear industry continues to receive so much federal support at a time of record debt.,NA
"It has to be continuously cooled, and it will take decades for this high-level waste to cool sufficiently for it to be considered for permanent storage.",NA
The fuel pellets were rejected by Tokyo after BNFL admitted that its officials had falsified safety documentation.,NA
"The way forward is benign energy forms – wind, waves, solar and biomass.""",NA
"Despite the repeated objections by project experts, END SUMMARY. --------------------------- SAFETY AND QUALITY IGNORED --------------------------- 2.",NA
"""With companies like Dong Energy now saying the price of offshore wind will drop so much it will be on par with nuclear by the 2020s, there is no rationale for allowing Hinkley C to proceed.""",NA
"The schedule for the UK's nuclear reactor building programme has slipped behind already, the safety regulator has admitted, reinforcing concerns that the first reactor will not be built on time.",NA
"The first is nuclear power, with Guardian columnist George Monbiot, former Greenpeace director Stephen Tindale and McEwan among those to agree with Lynas that atomic energy is vital if we are to wean the world off fossil fuels.",NA
"My role in the secretariat was to secure fair representation of all views on the committee, some of which were informed by evidence strongly suggesting that presently accepted risk factors may be in error by a factor of at least 100-fold.",NA
"Since the end of the second world war, both Labour and Tory governments have sought to replace Britain's vast coal reserves with a false promise of ""cheap"" imported oil, ""cheap, safe"" nuclear energy and ""cheap"" natural gas - policies that have not only cost the British people billions of pounds, but resulted in the near-extinction of Britain's deep-mine coal industry, the virtual exhaustion of North Sea gas and oil, and massive economic costs and environmental problems associated with nuclear power.",NA
"He said conventional nuclear reactors were “now very expensive”, partly due to safety requirements in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.",NA
"About 10,000 children whose families fled after the nuclear disaster have yet to return to Fukushima prefecture, amid parental concern over the possible health effects of long-term exposure to relatively low doses of radiation.",NA
"A small fire broke out today at a partly constructed nuclear power station in northern Japan, the third blaze at the plant this month.",NA
"Investors are crying out to develop Britain’s vast renewable energy potential, but they need the confidence to do so.",NA
"Charles Hendry, the energy minister, said the agreement reduced the need to transport plutonium back to the continent and would improve Britain's overall security.",NA
Part of the problem is that small and medium-sized British firms have not had the opportunity to supply equipment to a new nuclear power station since Sizewell C in Suffolk was completed in 1995.,NA
"British Nuclear Fuels will tomorrow announce its biggest ever loss, totalling £2bn, after being driven deep into the red by huge one-off provisions to cover the cost of storing radioactive waste and closing two power stations.",NA
It said: “Last week’s approval from the European commission demonstrates that agreements between the government and EDF are fair and balanced for consumers and investors alike.”,NA
"""Unfortunately, they are ageing plants and there are issues ... in our opinion, it means, in time, that there should be greater focus on building a new generation of nuclear power stations to a standard design.""",NA
"This is not to suggest that there are no impacts, but they are tiny by comparison.",NA
"They also said there was insufficient evidence potential customers for MOX, such as the Japanese, will materialise and warned the government against a global trade based on the use and transportation of components used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.",NA
In the letter you just co-authored to Cameron you suggest that nuclear would be a lot cheaper and better by now if Porritt and FoE etc hadn't 'devoted decades' to fighting it.,NA
"Britain's nuclear submarine fleet has been hit by a series of serious safety breaches involving repeated leaks of radioactive waste, broken pipes and waste tanks at its home base on the Clyde, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed.",NA
6.,NA
"Its summary of ""climate and landscape change"" at 11 current nuclear sites suggests that by 2100, five years before the disposal repository should be full, four sites will be vulnerable to flooding, and three others vulnerable to coastal erosion.",NA
"What emerges is the intimate, honest, sometimes ugly story of how a wartime bomb factory was dumped in one of Britain's most cut-off areas, turned to producing plutonium for the atom bomb, then nuclear electricity and is now a American-led multinational corporation decommissioning the mess that it largely created.",NA
But it said that Europe as a whole had sufficient power plants to cope with normal and severe conditions over the winter.,NA
"Even Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the Fukushima facility, says that it will take another 40 years to fully decommission the reactors there, a project which poses unprecedented engineering challenges.",NA
"Paul Ekins, professor of resources at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, said: “At a total cost to consumers of nearly £30bn, Hinkley now represents appalling value for money.",NA
The green deal could mean lower fuel bills and reduced carbon emissions.,NA
This has not been the only major accident to occur at the site.,NA
Sheffield town hall is hit as warheads burst over the North sea.,NA
"Existing gas-fired plants can also be fired up at short notice, but this comes with a carbon cost.",NA
"Charged with identifying a strategy for existing wastes, CoRWM's July 2006 report recommended long-term geological disposal, coupled with a robust programme of safe and secure interim storage - possibly for as long as 100 years.",NA
"February 2009 Magnox Electric Ltd, the operator of the Bradwell-on-Sea nuclear plant, is found guilty of allowing a radioactive leak to continue at the site for 14 years between 1990 and 2004.",NA
It will also damage the nuclear industry.,NA
"Of course, you have to ignore the small issue of the government not yet knowing what they are going to do with any of the nuclear waste.",NA
A spokesperson from the Department of Energy and Climate Change also said the safety of British reactors would be paramount.,NA
"Following the September 11 attack the first fear was that terrorists would attempt to crash a hijacked airliner into a nuclear installation, but Large's report makes clear that a truck bomb or even a bomb boat drawn up on the seashore would be enough to cause major damage.",NA
Nuclear power is a mature technology run by state-owned companies from France and China where costs seem to constantly rise and where 35-year price commitments at double the cost of existing wholesale power should not be being given.,NA
At present 400m people cannot light their homes and the country imports 70% of its oil.,NA
,NA
"Two-thirds of the energy inputted into our power stations is simply wasted - either as heat ejected through the cooling towers, or in transmitting electricity from rural power stations to cities and towns.",NA
"And that's exactly what AP's reporters found: Federal regulators have been working closely with the US nuclear power industry to keep the nation's ageing reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them.",NA
"Second, the construction of the new nuclear power station in Finland has descended almost into farce as costs have ballooned and progress has slowed.",NA
"The economic case for Hinkley was “marginal”, says the NAO, and “less favourable, but reasonable, assumptions” about energy prices and renewables would have meant the deal was not value for money even on the business department’s own model.",NA
"While he was there, the Fukushima crisis entered an even more dangerous phase, as two explosions in reactor buildings hampered efforts to direct a constant stream of coolant water at overheating fuel rods.",NA
"Paul Golby, chief executive of Eon UK, said there was no reason why the government should not continue with pre-licensing arrangements which were already under way.",NA
Green groups don't like nuclear power because of the waste issue.,NA
"Until the British nuclear industry has far clearer ideas about how it intends to handle and pay for its own waste, it should not be seeking to store others.",NA
Anti-nuclear campaigners said the episode showed the world should build renewable energy rather than new nuclear.,NA
"""Ensuring energy generation remains at Wylfa for future generations is a major priority for the county council and we are eager to work in partnership with all potential private-sector companies to ensure our 'Energy Island' aspirations are realised,"" he said.",NA
It's allowing us to choose our own mix and do it in the most cost-effective way.,NA
"Nuclear power is hardly a carbon-neutral enterprise, but in terms of energy output, it contributes less to global warming than fossil fuels.",NA
"No matter, though: the reports also contain predictably negative quotes from the local(ish) pressure group Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment, as well as - seemingly by way of filling space - the potted story of the 1957 fire.",NA
"Dealing with the problems of old age lies at the heart of the nuclear industry's challenge to convince the public of its safety: leaky power plants, crumbling waste stores nearing the end of their lives and overworked inspectors who do not have the time to assess properly the next generation of power stations.",NA
Fears of a nuclear accident increased on Monday after the No 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded.,NA
"On the issue of costs, Hutton told MPs: ""It will be for energy companies, not government, to fund, develop and build new nuclear power stations, including meeting the full costs of decommissioning and each operator's full share of waste management costs.",NA
Friends of the Earth campaigner Guy Shrubsole said the government was stalling and had to act before burning starts again next month: “Moorlands lock up millions of tonnes of climate wrecking gases and give important habitats for wildlife.,NA
"Moreover, Finland has not solved the problem of nuclear waste.",NA
"There is a credible solution staring the government in the face; one that can create jobs and deliver economic growth and that solution is renewable energy and efficiency.""",NA
"It's not the answer to Britain's energy needs and is not a solution to global warming.""",NA
"Potassium iodide is a potentially toxic substance, especially when you don't need it and I'm afraid that many people are so panicked right now because of the dumb sturgeon general and the misinformation out there, that they're going to start taking potassium iodide as a preventive.",NA
"A further example is Iran, whose access to civilian nuclear (and rejection of weapons) is enshrined in its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, aka the “Iranian Nuclear deal”.",NA
"Gordon Thompson, executive director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who is an expert at assessing radiological risk, said: “[Sellafield] contains large inventories of radioactive material that could be released to the environment in a variety of ways.",NA
"Britain’s oldest nuclear plant closed on Wednesday, leaving in its wake a £700m decommissioning bill and further questions about the UK’s ability to keep the lights on.",NA
"""If you mix steam and graphite you make a gas that is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which can explode violently, so it is not a very nice mix,"" Touhy said later.",NA
"There was a time for sober reflection on what had been a badly negotiated nuclear power contract, which left UK customers paying £92.50MW/h for electricity 35 years into the future, when the cost of onshore wind is already down to £70 and offshore is being delivered for £80.",NA
RWE boasted last year that the plant would bring jobs to the local economy.,NA
Nor should they try to dress a nuclear reactor up like a church.,NA
"It is a gamble we will pay for generations to come.""",NA
"Greenpeace’s director, John Sauven, responded to EDF’s previous announcement that a decision would not come until the summer by cautioning that the project was doomed.",NA
"Fukushima Daiichi's manager, Takeshi Takahashi, conceded that decommissioning the plant could take 30 to 40 years.",NA
"""The impact on people [of the current disaster] has been small,"" Monbiot asserts.",NA
"Around 90% of the UK's nuclear waste by volume is low-level, but the government also needs to deal with the much more dangerous high-level waste.",NA
To shout Chernobyl at any nuclear project is like pitting the dangers of Stephenson's Rocket against a TGV.,NA
"And the green economy should be a big driver for growth, creating jobs and helping deliver the required deficit reduction.",NA
All its production targets have had to be abandoned and it has angered its customers by increasing costs by 10%.,NA
"The impulse to minimise the inherent risks of the most dangerous technology man has ever tried to master, the tendency to conceal or downplay accidents, the assertion that each succeeding generation of plants is foolproof and super safe, and the presumption, so often proved wrong by events, that every contingency has been provided for, all these have been evident again and again.",NA
"""Adults would be OK, but children are more sensitive to the ingestion of nuclides such as caesium.",NA
"A recent report by Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute estimates that if we do everything possible to improve energy efficiency in the home and install mini wind turbines and small ""combined heat and power"" boilers, we could reduce our demand from big power plants by 25GW, or 40%, by 2050.",NA
"I'm not a huge fan of nuclear energy, and I agree that a large roll-out of atomic power must on some level increase the likelihood of nuclear terrorism or war.",NA
"The dangers associated with working in highly radioactive areas of Fukushima Daiichi prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to warn last week that one-third of the plant's workers face an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer, leukaemia and all solid cancers during their lifetimes.",NA
"The agency, responsible for storing waste generated by Britain's nuclear reactors, had been accused of fiddling figures to show it was safer than it really was.",NA
"The nuclear industry in Copeland employs 10,000 people directly and supports thousands more jobs in the supply chain.",NA
"The state LNP position stands in stark contrast to their federal colleagues, including conservative senator Amanda Stoker, who said that “Australia must develop a nuclear energy industry”, as well as her Queensland colleague Gerard Rennick.",NA
He said trading partners had warned they would stop selling their products and consumers had said they would stop eating Fukushima seafood if the water were released: “Our efforts in the past decade to restore the fish industry will be for nothing.”,NA
"The costs, the unreliability, and the slowness of nuclear power alone mean that it can't be the answer to Britain's energy needs.",NA
"David Kurtz, the director of analysis at Datamonitor, believes that TXU will be sold, with heavy job losses.",NA
"Sir David, a scorned pro-nuclear advocate in the 2003 review, told the environmental audit select committee last week that he would be very surprised if the review did not recommend radical action in the face of evidence that climate change was proceeding faster than expected.",NA
"And, what if there was a way to incinerate the nuclear waste, destroying nearly all that plutonium and dramatically reducing the need for long-term storage?",NA
"Kazue Suzuki of Greenpeace Japan said that by appointing people to the body who were ""heavily involved"" in nuclear power generation, ""the government is once again setting up the regulator for failure and endangering the health and safety of Japan's people and its economy"".",NA
Last year it appointed a committee on radioactive waste management to re-examine all possibilities to find a publicly acceptable solution to the nuclear waste problem - something that successive governments have failed to do for 50 years.,NA
"Fifty years ago, Britain was promised that nuclear power would generate ""electricity too cheap to meter"".",NA
Anyone who supposes that wind turbines can meet demand is a mathematical duffer.,NA
"Systemic failure, where rods are overheating – Unit 1 at Fukushima already has exploded, sending up a radioactive plume – and malfunctioning coolants and backup diesel generators are reported all over the Japanese nuclear network.",NA
The technology is seen as too uncompetitive and too uncertain for equity investment.,NA
The movement to save the Arctic is growing; millions of people are resisting Shell's ambitions to drill for oil in one of the most pristine and unique environments in the world and fast-track climate change.,NA
"Terrified residents rushed to buy iodine, which can help reduce risks from exposure to radiation.",NA
"The taxpayer will have to pay, as we did to bail out the banks.",NA
"As a low-carbon, reliable and affordable energy source, nuclear is a fundamental part of our plan to reach these targets and to power the country in the decades ahead,” said a DECC spokeswoman.",NA
French and German utilities such as EDF and Eon have been pushing ministers for action to thwart an energy supply shortage and fight rising carbon emissions.,NA
"I would recommend Mr Allan re-read the chilling warning in the incisive article by Dr Kate Brown of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seven weeks ago (Chernobyl’s disastrous cover-up is a warning for the next nuclear age of radioactivity, 4 April), based on her excellent new academic study Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future.",NA
"Mark Johnston, for Greenpeace, said: ""Ministers should rule out the nuclear option for good.",NA
"A Downing Street official explained: ""The industry will not make the long-term investment required to build a new nuclear power station if they think the government is not totally committed to nuclear energy.",NA
The committee will also question assumptions that nuclear power will necessarily provide an essential 'carbon-free' boost to meeting environmental targets.,NA
"But if some of it could be reprocessed, and more reactors are built to replace those aging stations that must be shut down, then the UK would have a readymade market for recycled fuel.",NA
"We made improvements to plant maintenance, equipment reliability and have installed upgraded equipment as required,"" she said.",NA
"Even if a ""solution"" to the future deep disposal of nuclear waste were established by the time the envisaged fleet of eight new nuclear plants are all operating by the late 2020s, each of these reactor sites – and, some, Brown's spin doctors have let it be known, might even be on greenfield rather than solely on existing sites – would become nuclear waste stores, as highly radioactive ""spent"" nuclear fuel discharged from these reactors will have to remain on these sites for up to 100 years, while it cools down.",NA
"The NDA was accused of making things worse by deciding to concentrate on especially toxic waste at sites such as Sellafield.This prioritisation will delay clean-up elsewhere, the Environment Agency argued.",NA
Even the Liberal Democratic party – which gets much of its funds from the industry – is promising to reduce the country's reliance on this energy source.,NA
"“The low haematological values in the Fukushima monkeys could have therefore been due to the effect of any radioactive materials,” he said.",NA