Blog - Don't Nuke The Climate

research · 23 Jun 2026

Climate and environmental impact of nuclear power

Summary of a German Environment Agency study finding that renewables are key to reaching net zero by 2050, while nuclear power is not necessary and is slow and costly to build.

research · 16 Jun 2026

The invisible Massacre

Nuclear power stations draw in huge volumes of cooling water and kill billions of aquatic creatures a year, a French report says, yet regulators require no monitoring.

news · 15 May 2026

Global Movement against New Nuclear Power Plants Workshop

RDI and Tipping Point North South held a one-day hybrid training on May 8 for Nigerian journalists on why nuclear power is a false solution to Africa's energy deficit.

news · 24 Apr 2026

German nuclear facility as a gateway for Russia?

A guest article by Vladimir Slivyak argues Germany should block a Framatome plan with Rosatom subsidiary TVEL to make Russian-design reactor fuel in Lingen, warning of new dependence on Russia.

research · 24 Apr 2026

The Impact

A Greenpeace Ukraine commissioned assessment by engineer Eric Schmieman of the 14 February 2025 Russian drone strike on the Chornobyl New Safe Confinement and its impact on the plant.

news · 9 Apr 2026

Stop the Nuclear Risk in Siaya

A petition from the people of Siaya County, Kenya, calling for a planned nuclear power plant to be suspended because of displacement, Lake Victoria, waste, health and cost risks.

news · 13 Feb 2026

About Greenland: Interview with Niels Henrik Hooge

Interview with Niels Henrik Hooge of NOAH on Greenland's uranium mining ban, mining interests under US and EU pressure, and how Europe could help protect the Arctic.

research · 9 Jan 2026

Small Modular Distractors

A CAN Europe report finds small modular reactors delayed, over budget and costlier than renewables, and warns an EU SMR strategy would divert resources from the energy transition.

research · 14 Jun 2025

Africa's nuclear energy misadventure

Twelve civil society groups have published a report on African countries considering nuclear power, arguing it is too slow, harmful and costly, and calling for clean renewables instead.

news · 27 Apr 2025

Cooperation between Russia’s Rosatom and ANF must be halted

A briefing by Vladimir Slivyak urges Germany to refuse Framatome and ANF permission to make nuclear fuel with Rosatom in Lingen, citing Rosatom’s role in the war in Ukraine.

research · 27 Apr 2025

Uranium Energy: Green Future or a Toxic Legacy?

Nuclear power is marketed as clean, but uranium mining, the fuel chain and waste raise concerns. The piece marks 39 years since Chernobyl, where 23% of Belarus remains contaminated.

research · 31 Dec 2024

Indigenous Nations Resist Nuclear Colonialism

Chiefs Hugh Akagi and Ron Tremblay explain why Indigenous nations oppose shipping nuclear waste from Point Lepreau to Ontario and call for monitored, retrievable storage.

analysis · 17 Nov 2024

Bananas .. not again

Linda Pentz Gunter rebuts the pro-nuclear claim that bananas are more radioactive than living near a nuclear plant, explaining why potassium-40 differs from cesium-137 and strontium-90.

policy · 11 Nov 2024

COP 29

A COP29 article arguing that the pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050 is a costly distraction from climate finance, with a civil society statement opposing nuclear power.

analysis · 30 Oct 2024

Myths about Nuclear Power

The article challenges common myths about nuclear power, arguing that reactor disasters, unsolved waste storage and costly, delayed new plants make it a poor answer to the energy crisis.

news · 9 Oct 2024

Nuclear Power, a hazard under climate chaos conditions.

Climate crisis might jeopardize the safety of nuclear power plants.

analysis · 2 Oct 2024

The vulnerability of nuclear plants during military conflict

A Greenpeace analysis of how Russian strikes on Ukraine's power grid raise the risk of a station blackout at its nuclear plants, with possible consequences reaching much of Europe.

research · 20 Jun 2024

Power Games Assessing coal to nuclear proposals in Australia: Cost, timing, consent and other constraints

This report argues that nuclear power is too costly and too slow for Australia, and that coal-to-nuclear plans would arrive after most coal plants have already closed.

impact · 1 May 2024

Stop Pinyon Plain Mine

Leona Morgan on the restart of uranium mining at Pinyon Plain near the Grand Canyon, and the Haul No! campaign to close the mine and stop ore transport through the Navajo Nation.

research · 28 Apr 2024

National Security Risks of Nuclear Energy

A George Washington University report warns that the pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050 is expected to increase risks of proliferation, nuclear terrorism, sabotage and coercion.

analysis · 25 Mar 2024

How renewables, energy savings and flexibility can replace nuclear in Europe

An EEB report shows Europe can phase out nuclear power alongside fossil fuels and reach climate neutrality by 2040, through lower energy demand, faster renewables and flexibility.

impact · 24 Mar 2024

SMR abandoned for good reasons

Summary of a report by E&E Consultant arguing that small modular reactors are costly, risky and too slow to help decarbonize, reviving concepts abandoned sixty years ago.

research · 21 Mar 2024

IAEA Nuclear Fairy Tales

A declaration by hundreds of groups opposes the IAEA nuclear energy summit in Brussels on 21 March 2024, arguing that new nuclear plants are too slow, costly and risky to address the climate crisis.

impact · 4 Mar 2024

Koeberg's Dangerous Lifetime Extension

A paper by Dr Tristen Taylor arguing that South Africa's Koeberg nuclear plant cannot be shown to be safe for a 20-year life extension and should be permanently shut down.

environment · 12 Jan 2024

Statement from the Havasupai Tribe Regarding Energy Fuels

The Havasupai Tribe says Energy Fuels has extracted uranium at the Pinyon Plain Mine, threatening the aquifers that are the tribe's only source of water.

research · 7 Dec 2023

Factsheet German Environment Agency

A November 2023 factsheet from the German Environment Agency finds that tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050 is neither realistic nor needed to meet the Paris climate targets.

research · 14 Nov 2023

Renewable, not Radioactive: Global call for effective Climate Action COP 28

Civil society groups worldwide call for effective climate action and an end to nuclear distraction ahead of COP 28 in Dubai, backing renewables over nuclear power.

research · 10 Oct 2023

The 2023 Nuclear Free Asia Forum in South Korea: The tip of the Iceberg

A report on the 2023 Nuclear Free Asia Forum in South Korea, where anti-nuclear groups from across Asia met, and on the hidden harms of the country's nuclear programme.

research · 3 Oct 2023

The Solar World we might have had

Linda Pentz Gunter argues that nuclear power displaced the solar path urged by the 1952 Paley Commission, delaying renewables and worsening the climate crisis.

research · 26 Jun 2023

Exploring Tritium Dangers

Arjun Makhijani’s book Exploring Tritium’s Dangers examines tritium’s health and ecosystem risks, and scientists endorse it as vital given plans to release Fukushima tritium water.

impact · 7 May 2023

IPPNW World Congress Mombasa

Doctors demand a global change of course at the IPPNW World Congress in Kenya.

research · 2 Dec 2022

No use in the climate crisis

Argues that small modular reactors cannot help the climate crisis, citing cost, waste, delay and weapons links, and urges readers to press officials using Beyond Nuclear talking points.

impact · 24 Nov 2022

Not for Sale!

Climate justice groups at COP27 reject carbon markets and techno-fixes such as nuclear power and geoengineering, and call for climate reparations to Indigenous and frontline communities.

research · 22 Nov 2022

We need Just Transition Strategies Not Net Zero Scams

This article argues that just transition and net zero are contradictory, and that frontline communities and workers, not polluters, should define real climate solutions.

analysis · 7 Aug 2022

The poisoned environmental Legacy of the Nuclear Park

France gets 70% of its electricity from 56 reactors, but uranium mining and the reprocessing of irradiated fuel have harmed public health, and President Macron still plans new plants.

impact · 23 Dec 2021

Neither Climate Nor Jobs

A brief publication arguing that nuclear power is inferior to renewables on reliability, emissions, costs, jobs and economic impact, and would hinder a Just Transition.

research · 21 Dec 2021

International Civil Society Statement

A 2021 COP 26 statement signed by 479 civil society organisations, arguing that nuclear power is dirty, slow, expensive and unjust, and that renewables are the answer.

news · 28 Sept 2021

Weiteres Gutachten zur EU-Taxonomie

Ein Rechtsgutachten im Auftrag des österreichischen Klimaschutzministeriums sieht Atomkraft nicht als nachhaltige Investition im Sinne der EU-Taxonomie. Ministerin Gewessler erwägt eine Klage.

research · 18 Sept 2021

No Nuclear Industry Subsidies

A new report by Dr Mark Cooper finds that up to $50 billion in proposed US subsidies for aging nuclear plants would undermine climate, jobs and clean-energy goals.

research · 11 Aug 2021

Expert response to JRC Report

Germany's nuclear waste safety office BASE reviewed the EU Joint Research Centre's nuclear taxonomy report and finds its sustainability assessment incomplete, notably on accidents and waste.

research · 23 Jul 2021

Out with Science .. in with Lobbyists

Reclaim Finance's July 2021 report argues that fossil gas and nuclear energy do not meet the EU taxonomy's sustainability criteria and that fossil fuel lobbyists should be banned from EU institutions.

policy · 7 Jul 2021

No to Nuclear in EU Taxonomy

Australian civil society groups, including ACF and MPI, urge the European Commission to reject nuclear in the EU clean energy taxonomy, citing the harm caused by uranium mining.

policy · 6 Jul 2021

Germany leads Call against EU Nuclear

Five EU states led by Germany have asked the European Commission to keep nuclear energy out of the EU green finance taxonomy, citing shortcomings in a Joint Research Centre report.

research · 16 Jun 2021

JRC Report .. critical Review

A critical review by the Austrian Institute of Ecology says the EU JRC assessment of nuclear energy is an insufficient basis for decisions, as it omits accident, waste and proliferation risks.

policy · 6 Jun 2021

Urani Naamik No to Uranium

Green NGOs published the transcript of Greenland Minerals’ annual meeting, which they say shows the company is not taking the new Greenlandic government’s ban on uranium mining seriously.

policy · 4 Mar 2021

Antinuclear Statement of the Climate Justice Movement

European climate justice movements publicly oppose nuclear power in a joint statement published on 11 March, the 10th anniversary of Fukushima, rejecting it as a climate solution.

research · 14 Feb 2021

French Atomic Bomb Waste in Algeria

Algeria demands that France reveal where it left nuclear waste in the Sahara, after seventeen French nuclear tests there between 1960 and 1966.

news · 11 Jan 2021

Nuclear Weapons are Criminal!

Nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons are held by nine countries, and war could start by accident or miscalculation. The piece calls for taking leaders off the button and moving to abolition.

research · 19 Dec 2020

Uranium Ranger Mine closing

A new report warns that cleaning up the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu is hampered by a five-year rehabilitation timeframe, unclear funding and fears of a leaking tailings dam.

research · 18 Dec 2020

Günstiger Atomstrom? FÖS Studie

Eine neue FÖS-Studie beziffert die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Kosten der Atomkraft in Deutschland seit 1955 auf mehr als 1 Billion €. Mehr als 100 Atomanlagen wurden staatlich gefördert.

impact · 1 Nov 2020

No a la Mina in Salamanca!

Livestock farmers' unions in Salamanca, Spain, reject the UGT-FICA trade union's support for Berkeley's uranium mine, saying it would destroy local jobs, farms and meat quality.

research · 22 Oct 2020

"Dirty Dangerous Destruction"

Canadian public interest groups oppose federal funding for small modular nuclear reactors, calling them a costly, slow and dangerous distraction from tackling the climate crisis.

impact · 11 Jan 2020

Grand Canyon under Attack by Uranium Mining Plans

A report arguing that uranium mining is inherently dangerous for land, water and people, and does not belong near the Grand Canyon or the communities still living with past contamination.

research · 9 Nov 2019

High-priced and dangerous

A study of nuclear energy's costs and risks finds it is not clean, would lose money for private investors and cannot be insured, so it should not be part of a climate-friendly energy mix.

policy · 30 Sept 2019

How Nuclear Power powers the Bomb

Argues that a civil nuclear industry is needed to sustain weapons programmes, and that nuclear power is now costlier than solar and wind, which also have lower life-cycle emissions.

research · 26 Sept 2019

Worst known radioactive Dump in Johannesburg

Waste from 130 years of gold mining has left uranium in the rivers, tap water and soil around Johannesburg, where an estimated 600000 metric tons lie buried in waste rock.

impact · 24 Sept 2019

Leave uranium in the Ground

Winona LaDuke, an Anishinabe activist, describes how uranium mining harms indigenous peoples worldwide and calls for wind and solar power on reservations instead.

analysis · 21 Jul 2019

New report by Greenpeace: The global Crisis of Nuclear Waste

Greenpeace commissioned experts to review the current status of nuclear waste worldwide, finding that no long-term solution has been found for the waste the nuclear fuel chain produces.

analysis · 21 Jul 2019

An obituary for small modular reactors

This article argues that small modular reactors are tied to fossil fuel extraction and militarism, face cost overruns, and have struggled to find buyers.

research · 30 Jun 2019

Nuclear power will not save the climate, but nuclear weapons!

IPPNW Germany answers the IEA report on declining nuclear capacity, rejecting nuclear power as climate protection and arguing that civil nuclear support sustains nuclear weapons programmes.

research · 1 Nov 2017

Scientists’ appeal to the COP 23

Open letter from scientists urging the COP 23 presidency not to give nuclear power access to climate funding, arguing it is not low carbon, too costly, unreliable and unhealthy.

Rome Declaration

Climate and environmental impact of nuclear power

The invisible Massacre

Global Movement against New Nuclear Power Plants Workshop

German nuclear facility as a gateway for Russia?

The Impact

Stop the Nuclear Risk in Siaya

About Greenland: Interview with Niels Henrik Hooge

Small Modular Distractors

Africa's nuclear energy misadventure

Cooperation between Russia’s Rosatom and ANF must be halted

Uranium Energy: Green Future or a Toxic Legacy?

Indigenous Nations Resist Nuclear Colonialism

Bananas .. not again

COP 29

Myths about Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power, a hazard under climate chaos conditions.

The vulnerability of nuclear plants during military conflict

Power Games Assessing coal to nuclear proposals in Australia: Cost, timing, consent and other constraints

Stop Pinyon Plain Mine

National Security Risks of Nuclear Energy

How renewables, energy savings and flexibility can replace nuclear in Europe

SMR abandoned for good reasons

IAEA Nuclear Fairy Tales

Koeberg's Dangerous Lifetime Extension

Statement from the Havasupai Tribe Regarding Energy Fuels

Factsheet German Environment Agency

Renewable, not Radioactive: Global call for effective Climate Action COP 28

The 2023 Nuclear Free Asia Forum in South Korea: The tip of the Iceberg

The Solar World we might have had

Exploring Tritium Dangers

IPPNW World Congress Mombasa

No use in the climate crisis

Not for Sale!

We need Just Transition Strategies Not Net Zero Scams

The poisoned environmental Legacy of the Nuclear Park

Neither Climate Nor Jobs

International Civil Society Statement

Weiteres Gutachten zur EU-Taxonomie

No Nuclear Industry Subsidies

Expert response to JRC Report

Out with Science .. in with Lobbyists

No to Nuclear in EU Taxonomy

Germany leads Call against EU Nuclear

JRC Report .. critical Review

Urani Naamik No to Uranium

Antinuclear Statement of the Climate Justice Movement

French Atomic Bomb Waste in Algeria

Nuclear Weapons are Criminal!

Uranium Ranger Mine closing

Günstiger Atomstrom? FÖS Studie

No a la Mina in Salamanca!

"Dirty Dangerous Destruction"

Grand Canyon under Attack by Uranium Mining Plans

High-priced and dangerous

How Nuclear Power powers the Bomb

Worst known radioactive Dump in Johannesburg

Leave uranium in the Ground

New report by Greenpeace: The global Crisis of Nuclear Waste

An obituary for small modular reactors

Nuclear power will not save the climate, but nuclear weapons!

Scientists’ appeal to the COP 23