Tim Worstall

All osrts of lefties keep telling us that interest rates are very low right now so the government should borrow to invest in infrastructure. Very much the same group of lefties tell us that we must decarbonise the energy production system in this country. The cost of nuclear power is almost entirely determined by the [...]

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The wildlife-rich wetlands of Romney Marsh in Kent could become a radioactive dumping ground for Britain Sounds a bit weird. Don’t you want some nice rocky area, not a low laying marsh? Some nice already radioactive chunk of granite perhaps? Some Cornish or Aberdonian mountain?

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The Japan Times reported on 29 March that radiation inside the vessel has reached 73 sieverts per hour – high enough to administer a lethal dose to a human in a matter of minutes, even to disable the robotic devices which are sent regularly into the reactor to monitor what is happening there. High radiation [...]

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Russia: we would build safe UK nuclear plants Russia’s state atomic energy agency has played down fears over its safety record as it confirmed its interest in building nuclear power stations in Britain. No, just no. Quite apart from anything else they’re possibly the most corrupt organisation I’ve ever dealt with. And yes, that includes [...]

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Nuclear power can’t happen without subsidy. So it shouldn’t happen. Facepalm. There is absolutely no argument where this is true of nuclear but not of renewables.

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Understandably, Japan too is now in crisis, with just two of its 54 reactors in operation. Its government is drawing up new energy plans, but the cities of Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe have already urged their main electricity supplier to cease its reliance on nuclear power. The report of the first independent, authoritative inquiry into [...]

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Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, said that he was “very concerned about the latest report from the IAEA”, adding: “We think Iran should understand the key to ending sanctions is in their own hands: they have a duty to co-operate with the international community.” Well, yes, quite. You see, the thing is, they’ve signed [...]

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Oh yes, we see all the standard fallacies here. Although there is a scientific consensus that no exposure is safe, no matter how brief, No love, there isn’t a scientific consensus that says that there is no safe level of radioactivity. Forget hormesis for a moment and just concentrate on the obvious fallacy of the [...]

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Finding a self-confessed Green backing breeder reactors. But respek to Mr. Monbiot for (sometimes) following where the evidence leads him.

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Hurrah! “This proposal will lead to a subsidised plant creating subsidised fuel so that subsidised operators can produce subsidised electricity ….” That sticks it to those windmill and solar people! Yeah! Hmm, what? They were talking about Sellafield? Oh, sorry, mumble, mumble…..

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Fuel rods inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have completely melted and bored most of the way through a concrete floor, the reactor’s last line of defence before its steel outer casing, the plant’s operator said. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said in a report that fuel inside reactor [...]

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Fukushima nuclear plant could take 30 years to clean up Removal of fuel rods and decommissioning of reactors could take decades, warns Japan’s atomic commission So, err, how long does it normally take to decommission a reactor? I have this vague sort of idea that you wait a decade or two anyway to get rid [...]

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Concerns that contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi plant had spread to Tokyo subsided on Friday after high levels of radiation recorded along a street in the city were linked to old bottles of radium stored beneath the floorboards of a nearby house. Researchers had recorded radiation of 3.35 microsieverts per hour along a street in [...]

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So they’ve found some uranium in Libya: The powder they contain appears to be yellowcake uranium from neighbouring Niger. …….There are at least 10,000 drums with a total capacity of two million litres,…….. The International Atomic Energy Agency says it knew that Col Muammar Gaddafi had stockpiled yellowcake uranium near Sabha – a relic of [...]

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Surely the end times are upon us? As many as 80 members of the Bavarian State Orchestra have refused to join a high-profile tour of Japan due to fears over radiation. Is there radiation in Japan? Sure, there’s radiation everywhere. Are there dangerous levels of radiation in Japan? Sure, there’s plenty of places with dangerous [...]

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We had a pretty good warning earlier this year, when the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused an even bigger tragedy when the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown. 20,000 people being crushed to death or drowned is a tragedy. A few piles of very expensive scrap metal with no one killed is [...]

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Nuclear advocates say that only nuclear can now provide the quantity of energy needed for the next 40 years. But its critics point to Germany, Italy, Switzerland and possibly Japan, which have turned their back on the much-disputed power source. Both can possibly be true: that some reject nuclear while nuclear is the only power [...]

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Fukushima workers brave radiation and heat for £80 a day Fears grow for inexperienced contractors working in Japanese heatwave to bring stricken nuclear reactors under control Then when you read the story there’s absolutely nothing at all about the radiation being dangerous. It’s actually about the fact that Japoan in the summer is a hot [...]

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Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan Given the fucking nonsense that was being published in newspapers like, erm, The Guardian, someone, somewhere, needed to start telling people the truth. For example, there has not [...]

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According to the survey, 1.13 becquerels of caesium-134 per litre of urine were found in an eight-year-old girl – the highest reading for that isotope. The highest reading for caesium-137 – 1.30 becquerels – came from a seven-year-old boy, Kyodo news agency said. Given that no one’s rushed these kids into a lead lined ICU [...]

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