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Study from Oxford Research Group finds nuclear power still poses all of its traditional problems, and cannot help with climate change. “If one were to set out to design from scratch a solution for the problem of climate change in a world without nuclear power, there is little chance that anyone would come up with nuclear power as that solution, or, if they did, that anyone would think that nuclear power was anywhere near acceptable.”
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Major study from Austrian government re-examines nuclear power. Conclusion: “Austria takes the view that electricity production from Nuclear Energy is neither sustainable nor environmentally sound and is therefore not suitable to contribute to the solution of the climate problem or the peak oil crisis…” . (4 mb).
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30 minute television interview hosted by Dave Kraft of Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago, with guests Shaun Burnie (European nuclear waste consultant) and Aileen Mioko Smith (of Green Action in Kyoto, Japan) on the many risks of commercial nuclear waste reprocessing under the Bush Administration's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposal.
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New international report commissioned by Greens in the European Parliament examines nuclear reactor accidents and safety issues since Chernobyl. Says study coordinator Mycle Schneider, "In the course of the last twenty years, the world has lived with the illusion that it is possible to make nuclear reactors safe. In reality, every day, countless incidents occur in nuclear reactors, and, since Chernobyl, catastrophe has, on several occasions, only narrowly been avoided."
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