Chernobyl book review: Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
HBO's dramatisation of the Chernobyl accident was not entirely factually accurate. But it is futile to criticise the entertainment business for this. But we cannot be so charitable toward Kate Brown’s new book Manual for Survival: a Chernobyl Guide to the Future.
Energy independence: a misguided pipedream
Obama’s and Romney’s trumpeting of energy-autarchy and energy-efficiency during the election campaign reveals how they lack both the policies to build a better future. The real challenge is not to turn the clock back on the globalisation of oil, but to accelerate the globalisation of gas.
How to make blackouts a thing of the past
The key to providing for our energy needs is technological development, not sterile rows about energy sources. This essay by Professor James Woudhuysen, Joe Kaplinsky and Paul Seaman was first published on spiked-online
Reset for nuclear PR
The worst case "media-generated scenario" for Fukushima goes on getting worse every day, nevertheless, we ought to be bold. Indeed, dammit, I'll risk being cocky by suggesting some robust messages and talking points in support of nuclear energy.
Media suffers a Fukushima meltdown
The scenes were on a scale hardly envisaged by a Hollywood disaster movie. Yet that’s no excuse for the media’s seeming loss of nerve and perspective over the troubles at Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Living and working at Chernobyl, 1995/6
I have selfishly mixed feelings about the discovery of Europe’s best-protected nature reserve surrounding Chernobyl. My joyrides in a speedboat observing the fish, birds, grazing animals and natural shoreline brushed by rushes, trees and beaches, may not be so special in future.
Book review: "Voices from Chernobyl"
“Voices of Chernobyl” by Svetlana Alexievich will provide a haunting reminder of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and a valuable one at that.
How Chernobyl myths became official
It matters that the myth-making Chernobyl.info ranks high in Google searches because it appears to be an authoritative source backed by credible institutions.
Risk free energy? Boycott BP? No way!
BP and the makers of the Titanic both at some point understated the potential risk involved in their respective challenges. That's all the more reason, I believe, for BP to use the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to set the record straight with the public about the realities of its business.
Taking the terror out of nuclear power
Every form of energy is bottled force. The chemical, biological, defence, aviation, oil, gas, hydropower industries all - like nuclear - suffer from occasional accidents. All can theoretically produce or be turned into weapons of mass destruction. So what?
Brilliant BBC Horizon
The Linear No Threshold (LNT) model for assessing radiation risk is flawed. We should base our assumptions on the reassuring factual evidence from Chernobyl rather than continue with old gloomy assumptions, which were based on flawed extrapolation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Chernobyl and the media: case studies
Three examples of misinformation or fake news about the consequences of the Chernobyl accident promulgated by mainstream media.
