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Small Modular Reactors: Will they change anything?

Small Modular Reactors: Will they change anything?

Latest September 6, 2024 at 7:31 am 0 comments

Major General Sudhir Vombatkere Major General S.G. Vombatkere retired as the Additional Director General, Discipline & Vigilance in Army HQ, New Delhi. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of the University of Iowa, USA, in international studies, and is a member of NAPM and PUCL. He writes on strategic and development-relatedRead More

Small modular reactors — a radioactive idea

Small modular reactors — a radioactive idea

Helen Caldicott AUSTRALIAN politicians are contemplating developing nuclear power for this country. In their ignorance, they are mooting “small modular reactors” (SMRs) about which they clearly know little. To partly explain their enthusiasm here is the background story. The so-called “nuclear renaissance” died following the Fukushima catastrophe when one-sixth of the world’sRead More

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors - Not Clean, Not Small, Not Green, Not Affordable

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors – Not Clean, Not Small, Not Green, Not Affordable

Latest August 18, 2020 at 10:03 pm 0 comments

On March 13, 2020, a presentation by Dr. Gordon Edwards scheduled for a public meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick, was cancelled because of Covid-19.

How Nuclear Power Powers the Bomb - IPPNW Germany Report

How Nuclear Power Powers the Bomb – IPPNW Germany Report

Written jointly by Dr. Angelika Claussen, Dr. Alex Rosen, and Dr. Frank Boulton, Medact UK, this report goes beyond succinctly compiling all the arguments and facts highlighting the inextricable links between nuclear weapons and the ‘civil’ nuclear industry, it also underlines the serious proliferation concerns regarding the Small Modular Reactors(SMRs),Read More