He has not even become Prime Minister, but already Gordon Brown is following in the familiar footsteps of his predecessor.
Later this week, Britain’s Prime Minister-elect will give the green light to plans for a dramatic renewal of the nuclear power programme that will see the building of up to eight new stations, possibly within 15 […]

The clock is ticking.
Yesterday the “Doomsday Clock”, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 at the dawn of the nuclear age, was moved forward from its present seven minutes to midnight, where it has stood since 2002, to five minutes to the Domesday hour.
The scientists have decided to move the minute […]

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for his country’s scientists and engineers to develop alternative energy sources.
Addressing the Indian Science Congress he said “India must find alternative sources of energy supply. We will need bio-fuel, solar energy, photo voltaic, nuclear and almost all sources, which do not burden the conventional sources of energy supply,” […]

A report to Autralian Prime Minister John Howard has concluded that twenty-five nuclear reactors, mainly on the east coast, could be producing a third of Australia’s electricity needs by the year 2050.
The cost of nuclear power would be substantially higher than fossil fuels, but the attachment of a price on carbon emissions could make the […]

While talking to Rush Limbaugh last week, and in his last minute campaign barnstorming for Republican candidates, George Bush confirmed his fear of Islamic extremists who “control oil resources” - and then immediately talked about “a country that doesn’t like us with a nuclear weapon”. You think maybe he’s thinking about Iran?
“Give me […]