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Nuclear Monitor: The WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor is a unique international newsletter serving the worldwide movement against nuclear power. Produced 20 times per year, it gives an anti-nuclear perspective on what is happening in the nuclear power industry and the resistance against it. >> get one / more info

Uranium Mining and (In)transparency: URENCO's role in the nuclear fuel chain: The URENCO group (Uranium Enrichment Company) enriches uranium for around 50 utilities in at least 18 countries. This means it fuels around 170 nuclear power stations worldwide. This report, published in May 2014, gives important background information on uranium mining and enrichment, the policy framework of the European Union, activities of URENCO, their transparency and corporate social responsibility, contract information, proliferation treaties and safeguards.

Nuclear security - in cauda venenum: In this report, published in May 2014, WISE adresses three inextricable aspects of nuclear security; 1) Nuclear security and malicious actions: Origin and availability of fissile materials and of highly radioactive materials. Potential terroristic actions with nuclear explosives, 2) Security and civil nuclear power: Models, physical laws and empirical evidence. Mechanism of Chernobyl-scale disasters. Non-nuclear terroristic attacks causing severe damage and 3) Nuclear securitiy and economics: Energy on credit, flexible standards, entanglement of interests. Putting responsibilities off and thus heading for future disasters: in cauda venenum.

comic nuclear reactor

8- page comic, "Helen and Tom and the nuclear reactor": One fine Sunday in 1963, Helen and Tom and their parents visit a new nuclear power station, Brightwell, which is holding an open day. During the guided tour, Helen and Tom wander off, and discover something unexpected.

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