There are many problems with nuclear power, from uranium mining, harmful effects on health and the risk of a major accident or terrorist incident through to the unresolved problem of nuclear waste and nuclear weapons proliferation. The following articles, videos and reports touch upon some of the issues:
Introductions
Stop Nuclear Power Network broadsheet (Apr 2010)
http://andreasspeck.info/files/NuclearPeoplePower-Supplement.pdf
Entertaining short cartoon: Leonardo and Albert discuss nuclear power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVwRUr-aeY
Another entertaining and informative short animation, introducing many of the issues: Boycott EDF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-aZ868vFBM
Climate of Hope - excellent 28 min video introducing nuclear power and the nuclear cycle in the context of climate change
http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/scottludlam/videos/climateofhope.mov/view
CND nuclear power Q&A briefing (Feb 2010)
http://www.cnduk.org/images/stories/briefings/nuclear_power/Q&A.pdf
CND nuclear power - more detailed briefing (Apr 2006)
http://www.cnduk.org/images/stories/briefings/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_06.pdf
Nuclear power and climate change
Building new nuclear reactors damages attempts to tackle climate change – by Pete Roche, No2NuclearPower (June 2009)
http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/reports/NewNuclearDamagesClimate.pdf
The death knell for nuclear power (2007)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387359.html
http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/07/david-flemings-new-book-provides-death-knell-for-nuclear-power
Broken Promises: Why the nuclear industry won’t deliver – A Corporate Watch report by Chris Grimshaw and Olaf Bayer (2007) http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=2968
Green Party's Keith Taylor on nuclear power (2006)
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/articles-and-speeches/53.html
Dangers
Accident risk
Risk of another Chernobyl disaster with new EPR nuclear reactor design (Sep 2010)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/09/463956.html
Health effects
Infant leukaemias near nuclear power stations - CND briefing (Jan 2010) http://www.cnduk.org/images/stories/briefings/nuclear_power/ian_fairlie_kikk_cancer_increase_summary.pdf
The Yellow Monster (trailer) - Health effects of uranium mining - Tenner Films
THE YELLOW MONSTER TRAILER from Vicki Lesley on Vimeo
Links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons
CND briefing (Apr 2006)
http://www.cnduk.org/images/stories/briefings/nuclear_power/links_npower_and_weapons_06.pdf
No2NuclearPower briefing (May 2008)
http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/reports/ProliferationBriefMay08.pdf
Minister - Interview with Tony Benn - Tenner Films
MINISTER from Vicki Lesley on Vimeo.
Alternatives
Is nuclear needed? - No Need for Nuclear
http://www.noneedfornuclear.org.uk
Some nuclear-free future energy scenarios:
Zero Carbon Britain (by 2030) – Centre for Alternative Technology (June 2010) http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com
Zero-carbon vision sees UK as cleaner, greener and leaner within 20 years by Juliette Jowit, The Guardian, 16 June 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/16/centre-for-alternative-technology-eliminate-carbon-emissions
Zero carbon Britain: how to get there in 10 steps by Tom Levitt, Ecologist, 21 June, 2010
http://www.theecologist.org/News/newsanalysis/513525/zerocarbonbritainhowtogettherein10steps.html
Decentralising Power: An Energy Revolution for the 21st Century – Greenpeace UK (PDF) (July 2005)
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/7154.pdf
Report by Greenpeace International (June 2010)
http://www.energyblueprint.info/fileadmin/media/documents/2010/0910_gpi_E_R__full_report_10_lr.pdf?PHPSESSID=1a1a2bcd2048b6cea4fd86bb6488fca7
Report summary (June 2010) http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2010/summary.pdf
See also: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/energyrevolution
The Energy Report - 100% renewable energy by 2050 - WWF and Ecofys (Feb 2011)
http://www.wwf.org.uk/wwf_articles.cfm?unewsid=4565
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/content/energy-report-100-renewable-energy-2050
From Greenhouse to Green House: Reports on the feasibility and costs of decarbonising the UK, Europe and the world—and the costs of not taking action.
http://www.mng.org.uk/gh/scenarios.htm
