nuclear power – Merseyside CND

Join CND for a discussion with Professor Andy Stirling and Dr Phil Johnstone, in conversation with CND Chair Dave Webb, about the connections between the UK’s nuclear weapons programme and nuclear power. Hosted by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson.

Andy Stirling is a Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, and has served as an adviser to the EC, UK and other governments across a range of issues in the politics of science, technology and innovation.

Dr Phil Johnstone is a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, (SPRU), University of Sussex. A member of the Sussex Energy Group since 2013, Phil has researched and published on a number of topics related to energy transformations, and has a long-standing interest in nuclear power policy.

On 4th March we joined a protest was held at Urenco’s Capenhurst nuclear plant, to grieve for exactly 50 years of uranium enrichment there. Uranium mining harms the environment, nuclear generates electricity at astronomic cost and with serious risks (think of Chernobyl, Fukushima, the Windscale fire etc.), produces ever-growing radioactive waste that remains deadly for centuries that no-one knows what to do with (let our grandchildren worry about that), but the bottom line is that no macho government anywhere can have a nuclear bomb without first having a ‘civilian’ nuclear industry. Our protest was joined by a woman from Japan with first-hand knowledge of the lives ruined by the Fukushima catastrophe

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