Category: No Need For Nuclear
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Updated Load Factors For UK Nuclear Power Plants
We are often told that nuclear power provides reliable baseload and, unlike renewables, do not need backup. However, as the data shows1 this is not […]
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Nuclear Power: Keeping The Lights On??
People in the UK are currently (September 2021) expecting steep rises in the cost of fuel and electricity1, with some fearing the stability of supply2. […]
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Capacity Factors
I was just going to explain briefly about what ‘capacity factor’ was but while I am on the subject I decided to make a couple […]
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TASC Leaflet – Meeting Our Energy Needs
This is a copy of the leaflet produced for Together Against Sizewell C (http://www.tasizewellc.org.uk). The leaflet can be downloaded in pdf format from here. Before […]
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Using Energy and Thermal Efficiency
This is a follow on from my previous post – Energy and Temperature and looks at how we can extract and use energy from a […]
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Energy and Temperature
First of all I am going to talk a bit about energy. It is not going to be a scientific analysis but is designed to […]
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What Do We Use Energy For?
We would like to refer to proper studies on what is our energy use. Unfortunately most of the studies are based on greenhouse gas (GHG) […]
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Is Wind Power Ineffective and Costly?
There has been another spate of articles about wind being costly and ineffective. How much do subsidies for wind cost? Well, according to the London […]
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Importing French Nuclear Generated Electricity
I have heard many people argue that we HAVE to import electricity from France. The fact is that the decision on whether to import or […]
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Nuclear Produces Less Than 4% Of Our Energy
It is often stated that nuclear produces 20% of our energy needs. This is wrong since it produces less than 20% of our our electricity. […]
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Wind vs Nuclear in India
“No, no – it wasn’t China – it was India which is producing lots of nuclear plants”. Well its time to get those spreadsheets out […]
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Power for the People or Profit for the Few?
The changes to the increasing complicated electricity market and the domination of electricity supply by a few big companies brings into question whether the UKs […]
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Nuclear / Wind Power In China
China did have the most ambitious nuclear programme in the world until putting it on hold after Fukushima. Various targets have been quoted but the […]
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Wind vs Nuclear
This graph shows the capacity installed per year for nuclear power versus wind power. The installed capacity is not necessarily the actual power produced since […]
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