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Radioactive human embryos: our nuclear legacy?

  Dr. Brian Moench says “…virtually every human on earth carries with them the nuclear legacy, a genetic footprint contaminated by the cold war, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the 400-plus nuclear power...

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IA INVESTIGATION: Victoria goes dirty brown

IA INVESTIGATION: The new Victorian Government has abandoned any concerns for the environment in a rush to turn Victoria into a big, dirty, brown coal mine. Environment editor Sandi Keane reports. In...

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Expert says no future for nuclear in Japan after Fukushima

The President of the Japanese Economic Association, Professor Tatsuo Hatta says Fukushima shows nuclear power has no future in Japan because it is much more expensive to produce than previously...

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Nuclear industry skews science after Chernobyl and Fukushima

Gayle Greene from The Asia-Pacific Journal exposes how the nuclear industry downplays the risks of nuclear energy and radiation — even after the calamities at Chernobyl and Fukushima. 1950s nuclear...

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Japanese bishops urge end to nuclear power

In response to the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, Japanese Catholic bishops issue a joint statement condemning nuclear power and urging the closure of all Japanese nuclear power stations. Abolish Nuclear...

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The corrupt Government and nuclear industry alliance

Nuclear power is inherently unsafe, and only continues because of an insidious alliance between Governments and a deeply corrupt nuclear industry. Joe Giambrone comments. This past year, since...

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Dear IA, birthday good wishes from The Planet

Environment editor Sandi Keane reflects on the birth of IA and its commitment to investigative journalism and the planet. by Sandi Keane June 24, 2010 is not a day I’ll easily forget. After twenty...

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The heavy hidden costs of nuclear power

In part 2 of his rebuttal, Ludwig Heinrich says Professor Barry Brook predictably ignores nuclear power’s significant economic, social and moral costs while spruiking its benefits. [Read Part One.]...

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Not warming to the nuclear option

The evidence consistently shows that nuclear energy – even aside from its noxious and socially unacceptable character – is just too expensive, writes Ludwig Heinrich. PROFESSOR LESLIE KEMENY, in the...

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Don’t believe thorium nuclear reactor hype

Thorium reactors are the latest big thing in nuclear spin. Noel Wauchope says: don’t believe the hype. Thorium reactors are the latest flavour in nuclear power hype. According to their enthusiastic...

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Two years after Fukushima: a tale of two symposiums

With news today that Fukushima has sprung another radioactive leak, Noel Wauchope reports on two very different nuclear symposiums held last month. The Japanese public have fallen out of love with...

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Renewables can do 24-hour base load anywhere, anytime

The University of NSW has exploded the myth that renewables can’t do 24-hour base load. Dr Mark Diesendorf reports. Clean, renewable energy. THE FUTURE of civilisation and much biodiversity hangs to a...

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Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

While nuclear energy has no direct carbon footprint, it is still a contributor to global warming; we know this, because Einstein tells us so. Guy Lane explains. Cooling towers at a nuclear power...

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