Ernest Rutherford, at the University of Manchester, changed the world in 1917 when he split the atom. This breakthrough resulted in the development of cancer-fighting radiotherapy,...
Reacting to news that nuclear waste will be transported from Dounreay to the US and other waste from the US to Europe, Dr Richard Dixon, Director...
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has accused UK defence chiefs of breaching Health and Safety legislation by failing to protect the public from the risk...
Sixteen years ago today, Pakistan detonated five nuclear devices in retaliation to India’s own tests 18 days earlier. Never has the sub-continent come so close to...
The Environment Agency has admitted that it was a mistake to build the UK’s nuclear waste dump on its current location on the West Cumbrian coast,...
The government has been accused of rigging the consultation process to select the site of a proposed nuclear waste storage facility in favour of a location...
We are facing an energy crisis. Fossil fuel reserves will eventually run out and so we urgently need to find cleaner and more sustainable sources of...
The environmental audit committee has begun an investigation into the government’s distribution of subsidies for nuclear power, fossil fuels and renewable energy. The committee will look...
North Korea is currently threatening nuclear attacks against both the US and South Korea. Ilaria Bertini looks at whether the advantages of nuclear as a power...
The government has published its nuclear strategy, which it says will make the UK a “leading civil nuclear energy nation” and bring about the creation of...
Two years ago today, the world witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters in history when the reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded, registering a...
Cumbria will not become the host community for the government’s £12 billion nuclear waste disposal facility, after its county council voted in favour of withdrawing from...
Following the National Audit Office’s (NAO) November report on Sellafield and its running costs, Joseph Iddison takes a look at the history of nuclear energy and weighs up...
With six days to go until our crowdfunding campaign ends, we’re exploring tenuous numerical links to the number of days left. This one isn’t overly tenuous,...