Nuclear power

On this webpage:

  • Nuclear power for Australia
  • Nuclear power’s economic crisis
  • Nuclear power Q&A myth-busting
  • Nuclear power and climate change
  • Safety / accidents / attacks
  • Small modular reactors
  • New ‘Generation IV’ reactor types
  • Nuclear power’s impact on water resources
  • Debunking pro-nuclear propagandists
  • Multilateral nuclear fuel cycle proposals
  • Renewables and energy efficiency

NUCLEAR POWER FOR AUSTRALIA

  • Click here for a wepage with relevant articles.
  • And to go to the nuclear power section of the links page, click here

NUCLEAR POWER’S ECONOMIC CRISIS AND 30 YEARS OF STAGNATION

NUCLEAR POWER MYTH-BUSTING Q&A

Nuclear power myth-busting Q&A

  • What do scientists say about nuclear power in relation to other energy sources?
  • Isn’t nuclear power better than coal in the short term because of immediate danger of fuelling climate change?
  • How does nuclear power stack up against other energy sources by cost of production?
  • Thorium reactors … aren’t they a good option?
  • Isn’t nuclear fusion power just around the corner?
  • Aren’t there new reactors that are fuelled by nuclear waste ‒ wouldn’t this solve the problem of radioactive waste?
  • Isn’t it true that Finland and Sweden are about to start operating high-level nuclear waste dumps?
  • Won’t Small Modular Reactors be safer and cheaper?
  • Doesn’t nuclear power have zero emissions?
  • Nuclear accidents are rare, aren’t they?
  • Isn’t it true that Chernobyl only killed 31 people and Fukushima hasn’t killed anyone?
  • How much water does a nuclear power plant consume?
  • Are there vested interests in the current resurgence of arguments for nuclear power?

NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

SAFETY / ACCIDENTS / ATTACKS

FUKUSHIMA

CHERNOBYL

SMALL MODULAR REACTORS

Please click through to this link: https://nuclear.foe.org.au/smr/

NEW ‘GENERATION 4’ REACTOR TYPES

  • Small Modular Reactors and ‘Advanced’ or ‘Generation IV’ Reactor Concepts, 31-page FoE Australia briefing paper, June 2023
  • Dr. Edwin Lyman, 2021, ‘Advanced” Isn’t Always Better: Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors‘.
  • The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector is dystopian (2019 article in Nuclear Monitor)
  • The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector isn’t advancing ‒ thankfully (2019 article in Nuclear Monitor)
  • Sept. 2019 – Australian environment groups’ submission to federal nuclear power inquiry (lots on nuclear economics, ‘generation IV’ concepts, small modular reactors etc).
  • The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector is fuelling climate change, and WMDs (article in RenewEconomy)
  • Important French and US government reports pour cold water on Gen 4 propaganda
  • ‘Generation IV’ concepts are mostly failed Generation I technology (article by David Elliot on Nuclear Monitor website)
  • Generation IV nuclear waste claims debunked
  • Pyroprocessing: the integral fast reactor waste fiasco
  • Nuclear weapons and ‘Generation 4’ reactors
  • Nuclear Monitor, ‘Film review: ‘The New Fire’ and the old Gen IV rhetoric‘
  • 2013 paper summarising Generation IV reactor concepts (pebble bed, thorium, plutonium, fusion)
  • PARTICULAR TYPES OF REACTORS:
  • Fast neutron reactors (aka fast breeder reactors)
  • Integral Fast Reactors (and pyroprocessing)
  • Thorium – a better fuel for nuclear reactors? 
  • Thorium and WMD proliferation risks
  • High-temperature gas-cooled reactors inc pebble-bed modular reactors
  • Fusion scientist debunks fusion propaganda
  • Fusion – 2020 UK Nuclear Free Local Authorities report
  • Why molten salt reactors are problematic and Canada investing in them is a waste (article by physicist MV Ramana in The Conversation)

    • NUCLEAR POWER’S IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES

    DEBUNKING PRO-NUCLEAR PROPAGANDISTS

    MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE PROPOSALS

    RENEWABLES AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

    • links to lots of Australian and international literature on clean energy options