Nuclear

Left Manifesto for Nuclear Energy

Left Atomics: A Call for a Re-discussion on Nuclear Energy

Climate of Hope is a 30 minute documentary created to demystify climate change and nuclear energy. While the threat of climate change is now widely accepted in the community, the potential for nuclear power stations in Australia has raised questions about the best strategy for our country to move to a low-carbon economy.

This animated documentary takes viewers on a tour through the science of climate change, the nuclear fuel chain, and the remarkable energy revolution that is under way.

Produced in 2007 by Scott Ludlam and Jose Garcia for the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia.

Losing Wastwater Paradsise drop by drop...

.......it is no accident that the Lake District was chosen for the world’s first
nuclear power station. With the deepest, coolest lake in England complete
with arctic charr, the Lakes has an abundance of freshwater . Only 1 percent of the world’s
water is drinkable. The recent summer floods were a stark reminder that the most
important resource is not electricity, it is fresh water.

Sellafield no longer produces electricity but still needs to abstract

A short film on nuclear power vs renewables and efficiency.

The single biggest use of fossil fuels isn't for electricity or for transport, but for creating heat (domestic and industrial). So any solution to climate change needs to contribute to heating, as well as to electricity generation.

When one of Asia’s leading institutions says it’s serious about funding the solutions to climate change that makes us happy. But when we discover that this commitment goes no further than a glossy brochure, we can't let that pass.

A report launched today by the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN), Opportunities to Waste: Australian Universities and the Nuclear Industry, is highly critical of the role universities play in
supporting, legitimising, and expanding a nuclear industry in Australia.

Howard, Labor push `clean coal' pipe-dream
Zoe Kenny
20 April 2007

Those hoping for a more serious approach to tackling global warming from the federal ALP than the do-as-little-as-politically-possible tack of John Howard’s Coalition government should revise down their expectations. On February 25, Labor leader Kevin Rudd unveiled the centrepiece of his party’s “climate action plan” — $500 million in funding for “clean coal” technologies research.

Rudd pushes uranium bosses' agenda

Zoe Kenny
21 April 2007

It now appears certain that the ALP’s national conference, to be held in Sydney from April 27-29, will drop the party’s “no new uranium mines” policy, adopted in 1998. This will satisfy the big mining companies’ desire to expand uranium mining. Labor leader Kevin Rudd and his “left-wing” deputy, Julia Gillard, are leading the push to scrap the policy.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/12/18/pf-2859919.html

The Canadian Nuclear Association's $1.7 million ad campaign touting nuclear power as "clean, reliable and affordable" is the target of a false-advertising complaint filed by a coalition of environmental, health and church groups. "Our concern is that the nuclear industry's advertising budget and approach distorts objective decisions ... about the future of [Canada's] electricity system," explained Julia Langer of WWF-Canada. The formal complaint, filed with Canada's Competition Bureau, says that presenting nuclear power as "clean" is misleading, given hazardous byproducts "from the mining of uranium fuel" and the radioactive waste generated by nuclear reactors, which "remains dangerous for thousands of years."