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1. Global hype about small nuclear reactors on the rise, despite cost overruns, cheaper renewables

   pressurised heavy water reactors, each with a capacity of about 200 MW. Professor MV Ramana noted in his 2012 ... pressurised water reactor. According to China National Nuclear Corporation, construction costs per kilowatt ... water reactor. The DOE announced in 2012 that it would subsidise mPower in a five-year cost-share ...

2. Vale Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, fierce advocate for his people and a nuclear free Australia

   stop the rapacious water take from the Great Artesian Basin by mining company WMC (and later BHP) to ... water has adversely affected the precious Mound Springs on Arabunna country — desert oases supported by ... water take from the Great Artesian Basin. Kevin explained: “I’ve been at this game of calling for ...

3. Nuclear power and water scarcity

   Jim Green Sue Wareham The connections between water scarcity, power generation and the federal ... government's promotion of nuclear power are worth reflecting on with National Water Week held from October ... water-hungry of all energy sources, with a single reactor consuming 35-65 million litres of water each day. ...

4. Nuclear facilities targeted in Russia's war on Ukraine

   heat load and the volume of cooling water. SNRIU said on March 10 that in the event of a total ... of the water level and temperature in the cooling pool; makeup of the cooling pool and its water ... possible for staff to monitor the water level and temperature of the spent fuel pool. But they would carry ...

5. Why nuclear power must remain outlawed in Australia

   nuclear power reactor consumes 35‒65 million litres of water a day for cooling. The water consumption of ... change threats, including dwindling and warming water sources, sea-level rise, storm damage, drought and ...

6. Nuclear power and Australia’s culture wars

   challenges in terms of the storage and transport of nuclear waste, and use of water”. Exponentially rising ...

7. Clean and green... or nuclear?

   short supply (e.g. calm, cloudy days), water from a very large dam is run downhill through turbines to ... generate electricity. At other times, water is pumped up hill to replenish the dam. In a 2010 paper, ... These include demand reduction by means of energy efficiency, energy conservation and solar hot water ...

8. New project maps Australia’s nuclear sites

   Northern Territory ceased, part of the area was converted to a lake. As a crocodile-free water body in the ... in Queensland, there is ongoing seepage of saline, metal and radionuclide-rich waters from tailings, ... there has been ongoing site contamination and lasting impacts on water quality. [Jim Green is the ...

9. Australia's role in Japan’s nuclear fiasco

   in 1999, two people died and hundreds were irradiated. In 2001, a water pipe at Hamaoka-1 exploded, ... releasing radioactive steam into the containment building. In 2002, 16 workers were irradiated after a water ...

10. Australian uranium industry in trouble after Fukushima

    recently started. Water management problems continue to plague the mining and milling of uranium at Ranger. ... from the town's water supply. In Queensland, the new Liberal National Party government has so far ...

11. After Fukushima: Nuclear less popular than ever

    Environment Jim Green A poll by Roy Morgan Research several days into the Fukushima nuclear crisis found that 61% of Australians oppose the development of nuclear power in Australia, nearly double the 34% who support it. The growth in support for nuclear ...

12. Corporate polluters hijack Earth Summit

    improvement or a continuing decline over the past 10 years — Poverty has grown, fresh water and secure food ... 4 argued: "Privatisation of water, energy and health sectors, and the inevitable imposition of user ...

13. Fukushima: the political fallout in Australia

    Environment Jim Green Several months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we’re beginning to get a sense of the likely long-term impacts. Radiation has spread across much of the northern hemisphere and parts of the southern hemisphere, including northern ...

14. Beverley uranium mine owner has shocking record

    that GA had known for years that radioactive material was leaking and that the radioactivity of water ...

15. Battle is on to keep WA uranium free

    specific, local concerns with Toro’s application to mine uranium at Wiluna. These include inadequate water ...

16. Australia’s nuclear spin doctors

    Environment Jim Green How have Australian scientists handled the difficult task of keeping us informed about the unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan? Only a few Australian scientists have featured repeatedly in the media. The most prominent have been Prof ...

17. George Monbiot’s nuclear mistakes

    on the consumption of food, water and milk; the expense and trauma of relocating 200,000 people; the ...

18. What is the Chernobyl death toll?

    nuclear plant in Japan, widespread restrictions on food and water consumption, and the growing number of ...

19. Nuclear debate: A dangerous option that won't solve climate change (Jim Green)

    as extracting it from spent fuel from light water reactors". IFR proponents propose building an ...

20. Australian uranium: feedstock for proliferation

    government. But within months, the system was being watered down. As Mike Rann, now the premier of South ...