Category: nuclear

Interrogation of Helen Caldicott’s Responses

This is supporting material for my article Evidence Meltdown.

This is supporting material for my article Evidence Meltdown.

Why don’t we judge other forms of energy generation by the standards we apply to nuclear power?

How the Fukushima disaster taught me to stop worrying and embrace nuclear power.

The Fukushima crisis should not spell the end of nuclear power.

What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?

An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.

Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?

Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.

Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.

When will Bush and Brown acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East?

The emerging disaster at Dounreay is a powerful argument for open government.

Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.

Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.

Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.

The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics

In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons

Of course Iran wants the bomb, and the international system has given it everything it needs to build one.

By hardening its position on nuclear weapons, Labour is encouraging proliferation

The British Government is increasing the dangers of nuclear proliferation