Regurgitating industry propaganda might go down well at the Sydney Institute but it is no substitute for informed debate on nuclear power, writes Jim Green.
Nuclear power
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Who ate all the yellowcake?
If you think it’s tough to get an incinerator built these days, trying putting a nuclear waste dump anywhere. Voters wouldn’t allow it, not in their backyards. Nuclear power is the defining struggle, around which a new politics is organised.
Going nuclear: a necessary part of our future?
Whether we go nuclear ourselves or not, nukes will be part of Australia’s future — and it may not be as bad as many now perceive, says Larvatus Prodeo.
Killing nuclear: energy politics in Spain
Unpopular Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to close down the country’s oldest nuclear power plant by 2013, but his critics are questioning if this is desirable.
Um, the nuclear ‘solution’ just melted
For all those who suggest that nuclear power is the only solution to climate change, writes Tim Hollo there’s a little spanner in the works - nukes don’t deal with the heat…
Obama: Iran has a right to nuclear power
Barack Obama has acknowledged that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy — as long as its intentions are peaceful.
Crikey wrap: a Nuclear North Korea timeline
North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons and missile tests have set the political world abuzz. Crikey intern Nicola Heath looks back at the history and what people are saying now.
Everything you know about Iran is wrong
They may not want the bomb after all, writes Fareed Zakaria and other myths unmasked.
Ok folks, it’s time to talk about nuclear power
It’s impossible to have a serious debate on the nuclear issue at the moment. And yet it’s an important discussion, writes Bernard Keane.
