What about Niger’s ‘have-nots’, President Sarkozy?
The nuclear industry’s most famous salesman, French President Nicholas Sarkozy (where does he find the time to do anything else?), has once again been singing the praises of nuclear energy and its miraculous powers to do almost anything. On this...

March 8: New Zealand says ‘yes’ to whaling
Climate change skeptics. Worries about a new genetically modified food chain.

Triple trouble for new reactor designs
Trouble, or so they say, comes in threes and so it is for the designs of the so-called new ‘third generation’ of nuclear reactors. Look at AREVA’s European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) design. Two are currently being right now – one...

Nokia - questions still to be answered on the climate
Nokia is responding online this week - ask the telecoms company what it really thinks about the most pressing environmental issue of our time.

Nuclear News: EDF nuclear reactor carries 'Chernobyl-size' explosion risk
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: EDF nuclear reactor carries 'Chernobyl-size' explosion risk ‘French anti-nuclear campaigners claim a new power plant being built in Normandy carries an accident risk of "Chernobyl proportions". Sortir du Nucléaire, a protest network, says...

March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord
March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord

March 9: US fossil fuel lobby and senators in love; India, pest develops resistance to Monsanto's GE cotton
March 9: US fossil fuel lobby and senators in love; India, pest develops resistance to Monsanto's GE cotton

Nuclear News: Academics demand independent inquiry into new nuclear reactors
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Academics demand independent inquiry into new nuclear reactors ‘Pressure on the government to organise an independent inquiry into a new generation of nuclear power stations will intensify today with a call for action...