Tim Worstall

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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Flood defences and nuclear power are expected to receive funding from the green investment bank, according to detailed plans for the new institution set out on Tuesday by Vince Cable, the business secretary. It’s sensible of course, nuclear is indeed part of the solution to our climate change problems. But there is that rather large [...]

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And not a single death nor even the likelihood of a single death in the years to come: Tokyo Electric Power Co. confirmed a meltdown of fuel rods in two more reactors at its Fukushima nuclear plant, which has been emitting radiation since an earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and cooling systems. Fuel rods [...]

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The fuel in reactors No 2 and 3 is suspected to have melted amid reports that the operators Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) failed to cool the plant in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The news came only days after it was confirmed for the first time that a meltdown had [...]

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So says the scientific report into it all. And just look at the comments section: outright denial of reality all over the place. It’s weird how science gets used in certain quarters. It’s scientifically proven that we face resource constraints, scientifically proven that we’ve peak oil, scientifically proven that there’s climate change: but when it’s [...]

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It’s all that thrusting of rods into the core, innit? That’s (no, really!) the view of the Low Carbon Kid. Incredibly this man used to be employed by DEFRA to tell us all about climate change.

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Not Russian: In a rare interview on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl on Monday, Col-Gen Nikolai Antoshkin said he was shocked at how poorly Japan had coped with its own nuclear disaster. “Look at advanced Japan,” he said. “People are housed in stadiums and are lying about on the floors of sports [...]

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There’s a special type of radioactivity you see, much more dangerous than the type that everyone’s talking about. No, really, there is. In his article on “the confusing world of radiation exposure”, readers’ editor Chris Elliott was right to point out that getting a whole year’s sunshine in an hour would fry him to a [...]

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Much better than nuclear, oh yes:

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