Back in February 2015, I posted on BNC about the announcement of a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (henceforth NFCRC) in the uranium-mining state of South Australia (SA). This was fo...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/06/07/on-the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-royal-commission/
This is Part III of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series, we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/10/19/sustaining-the-wind-part-3-is-uranium-exhaustible/
This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1 of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the eleme...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/08/17/sustaining-the-wind-part-2-indium-and-beyond/
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Preamble Following a recent article by Helen Cal...
SA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission – update Today the Expert Advisory Committee of the South Australian Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle was announced. The members include Dr Ti...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/04/17/sa-nuclear-fuel-cycle-royal-commission-update/
Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a p...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/04/14/is-renewable-energy-looking-like-a-new-religion/
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. The Climate Council has a new report out. The Gl...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/04/09/tunnel-vision-at-the-climate-council/
This is a piece written by me (Barry Brook) and my Ph.D. student, Ben Heard, as part of the “Nuclear Debate” series on the New Matilda news/opinion site. The original article can be read her...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/02/25/the-argument-for-nuclear-energy-in-australia/
This is an article by Ben Heard and me, published today in The Conversation. I’m republishing it here. South Australian premier Jay Weatherill on Sunday announced a formal inquiry into the futu...
South Australia announces Royal Commission into Nuclear Energy We are, at last making real progress. As Ben Heard explains on DecarboniseSA, the Premier of the state of South Australia has announ...
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Kerala is a state on the South Western coast of ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/01/24/what-can-we-learn-from-kerala/
Guest Post by NNadir (who blogs occasionally at Daily Kos, profile here). This is a long but really interesting post. If you’d rather a PDF version, click here. The International Energy Agency ...
This is an article by me and Corey Bradshaw, published today in The Conversation. I’m republishing it here. Should nuclear energy be part of Australia’s (and many other countries’) future e...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/12/16/its-time-for-environmentalists-to-give-nuclear-a-fair-go/
Professor Barry W. Brook, Chair of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania, Australia. barry.brook@utas.edu.au Professor Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Chan...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/12/15/an-open-letter-to-environmentalists-on-nuclear-energy/
he exact mix of nuclear with renewable energy will be for individual countries to decide. China clearly sees a great advantage in using significantly more nuclear in the future to reduce its use ...
Pick up a research paper on battery technology, fuel cells, energy storage technologies or any of the advanced materials science used in these fields, and you will likely find somewhere in the in...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/08/22/catch-22-of-energy-storage/
Mark Horstman travels to Fukushima Prefecture in Japan to investigate where the radioactive fallout has travelled since the Daichi nuclear power plant accident over three years ago. This was the ...
Regular BNC commenter and my friend Geoff Russell (@csiroperfidy) has published a new book. It’s called “Greenjacked!: The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. The blurb: ...
On July 28, I (Barry Brook) was an invited participant in a public discussion and Q&A session on the future of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Australia. It was organised and hoste...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/08/07/nuclear-energy-the-debate-australia-has-to-have/
The following article by Ben Heard and me was published on The Conversation today. This is a repost on BNC. Nuclear waste is safe to store in our suburbs, not just the bush Right now, radioactiv...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/06/25/where-do-you-want-nuclear-waste/