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Mary Black and Andrew Stone It was looking increasingly ominous. ‘Government sources’ were leaking that New Labour, having pursued a ‘rule nothing out’ policy on nuclear power for its first two terms, was intent on initiating a new reactor building programme immediately after the election. These rumours were strengthened whenRead More

The nuclear age — our age — may be said to have begun 66 years ago on this day, July 16, in 1945. Not one but three things happened on that day, giving the world its nuclear teeth. The first was a meeting, the second was a testing, and theRead More

Government admits plant is the source of contamination but says risk is ‘minute’ By Anthony Barnett, public affairs editor The Observer, November 30th 2003   Radioactive pollution from the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria has led to children’s teeth across Britain being contaminated with plutonium. The Government has admitted forRead More

Book Review – Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment by Mona Dreicer   (Author- AlexeyV. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and AlexeyV. Nesterenko. Boston: :Blackwell., Year: 2010. 327 pp. ISBN: 978-1-57331-757-3, $150)   The book can be downloaded in PDF form here.          Read More