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24-Jan-12

Plans for Sellafield plutonium reactor rejected

"Nuclear Decommissioning Authority sees technology as immature and commercially unproven, internal emails reveal"


10-Jan-12

Doomsday Clock ticks one minute closer to midnight

"The symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, counts down to nuclear armageddon"

Category: Weapons

20-Dec-11

MoD reveals 15 radioactive UK sites

"Current and former air and naval bases have been contaminated by second world war hardware, but the risks are unclear"

Category: Radiation, Weapons

30-Nov-11

GE and Hitachi plan new reactor to burn UK plutonium stockpile

"Multibillion pound plant at Sellafield would convert UK's nuclear power plant residue into fuel"


19-Aug-11

Windfarms prevent detection of secret nuclear weapon tests, says MoD

Plans for hundreds of wind turbines have been blocked over claims that vibrations will interfere with recording station

Category: Energy sources, Weapons

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