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The fallacy of trusting in nuclear power
RAE STREET looks at statistics and opinions that debunk the delusions attached to nuclear energy generation
FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE: The nuclear reactor on unit 1 at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Somerset
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
GIVEN the discussion at TUC Congress of a new generation of nuclear plants, it is worth looking at the case against nuclear energy.
First, the question of climate change, where the proponents of nuclear power say nuclear energy is “vital.”
According to Andrew Blowers, emeritus professor of social sciences at the Open University: “Far from being a solution to the problem of climate change, new nuclear power stations like Sizewell C and Bradwell B on the fragile and vulnerable east coast, are likely to become victims of the inevitable, imminent and irreversible consequences of global warming.”
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