The Madness of Nuclear Energy

The Ecologist

VOLUM E 2 9 No 7 NOVEMBER 199 9

Contents

385 Ending The Nuclear Century

The Editors SECTION ONE: A DYING INDUSTRY LIMPS ON

386 Nuclear Power: Time to End

the Experiment Peter Bunyard and Pete Roche

390 The Final Boltholes

Anthony Froggatt

392 The Politics of Mox

Pete Roche and Linda Gunter

394 Climate Change: The New Saviour of Nuclear

Power?

Bridget Woodman

SECTION TWO: A DEVASTATING HISTORY

395 Poisoning In The Name of 'Progress'

Chris Busby 396 A Sea of Troubles

Chris Busby 398 Even the Pigeons are Radioactive

Martin Forwood 400 Dumping in Didcot

Lucinda Labes

402 Accident. 'It Couldn't Happen Here9

Peter Bunyard 402 Chernobyl: The Great Health Cover-up

Chris Busby

408 Victims of the Nuclear Age

Rosalie Bertell 410 Radioactive Reindeer: The Chernobyl Legacy

Sara Bell

411 Body Language - The Leaf Bugs Speak Out

David Edwards

SECTION THREE: ATOMIC ECONOMICS

412 Nuclear Power - A Dead Loss

Peter Bunyard

415 Nuclear Privatisation: Voodoo Economics

Paul Brown

417 Sellafield: The Ugly Duckling

Martin Forwood

SECTION FOUR: WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

419 Nuclear Skullduggery

Chris Busby 421 Bored With Cocaine? Try Plutonium

Peter Bunyard 422 Richard Doll Falls into Plutonium Trap

Richard Bramhall 424 Poacher or Gamekeeper?

Rob Edwards and David Lowry 425 Fiddling the Nuclear Books in Germany

Peter Bunyard 426 Jack Cunningham: Nuclear Politician

Ed Metcalfe SECTION FIVE: A LEGACY OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE

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404 Three Mile Island

Peter Bunyard 404 The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Matt Henry 406 The Millenium Bug and Nuclear Power

Jan Wyllie

The Ecologist, Vol. 29, No 7, November 1999

427 Opening the Nuclear Dustbin

Helen Wallace and Richard Bramhall SECTIO N SIX : TH E WAY FORWARD 430 A Renewable Future

Godfrey Boyle 431 The Ecologist s Declaration on Nuclear

Power

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