
MOX Fuel Disposal
The Monju reactor has been inoperative for most of the time since it was first built. It last operated in 2010, and last year it was decided top decommission it. The Japanese have no idea at present how to dispose of the spent fuel or the radioactiuve sodium from Monju. Radioactive sodium is yet another nuclear conundrum.

5 Powerful Films About Chernobyl
More than 30 years after Chernobyl, here are five films that recall the disaster, the coverups, and those affected.

Nucléaire : une maladie d’État
Les formes multiples que revêt la transmission intergénérationnelle de cette maladie d’État qu’est le nucléaire, ne semblent pas émouvoir. Au contraire. “Le nucléaire est un choix français et un choix d’avenir. C’est le rêve prométhéen !”, selon Emmanuel Macron, rejoint par Corinne Lepage. S’agit-il d’un rêve prométhéen ou d’un cauchemar ?

Les six crises du nucléaire français
Alternatives Economiques Benjamin Dessus Ces dernières semaines, en pleine campagne présidentielle, le buzz médiatique autour du nucléaire bat son plein. France Inter, dans un documentaire remarquable, nous montre le degré de complicité entre Areva et EDF, et donc de leurs dirigeants, pour tenter de masquer les malfaçons potentiellement graves de conséquences de la forge du […]

The Age of Nuclear Waste: From Fukushima to Indian Point
The Indian Point Nuclear Reactors: “The Age of Nuclear Power is Winding Down but the Age of Nuclear Waste is Just Beginning”

Nuclear Fuel Waste: The Anatomy of a Lie
Gordon Edwards, scientist and founder of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies, discusses the problem of radioactive nuclear waste. Edwards argues that there is no solution to the storage of nuclear waste. The earth is a collection of moving dynamic systems, not a lock box where we can deposit plutonium and expect it to stay excluded from the environment.

The Fukushima disaster and the seven principles of national – nuclearism
The fundamental ideology underlying the nuclear society adopted by ardent advocates of nuclear power is structured around the derealization of world views. When it deems it necessary, this ideology chooses to destroy life on alleged national interest grounds; it deprives individuals of their own existence and freedom on presumed grounds of community interest, camouflaging superior industrial interests. To achieve this, it legitimizes and organizes the co-existence of one of the most advanced technologies, with profound retrogression in consciousness.

La farce cachée du nucléaire, en bref
Voici un livre édifiant et accessible, qui révèle les arcanes de l’industrie atomique en général et du fonctionnement de nos centrales nucléaires en particulier. À l’occasion de sa sortie, le Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire“ a créé sa propre maison d’édition, Yasnost’Editions. L’auteur est issu du sérail d’EDF et il a fait sienne la doctrine de […]

Thank Goodness Nukes Are So Expensive and Complicated
Imagine you’re an evil genius in the style of a James Bond villain. You’ve got a hundred million dollars or so burning a hole in your pocket, and you’re looking to cause some destruction. You want to know your options. Welcome to the mass destruction cost curve.

How Nuclear Safety Undermines Nuclear Economics
Failed EPR and AP1000 reactor projects have brought giant energy companies to their knees, and even pro-nuclear lobbyists now acknowledge that the industry is in crisis. Jim Green, editor of the Nuclear Monitor newsletter, takes stock of the crisis in the global nuclear sector and concludes that the industry’s likely response, a retreat from post-Fukushima […]