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Nuclear Energy

Ukraine

Get in, stay in, tune in: state prepares plan in event of a nuclear emergency

Event of this nature ‘highly improbable’, but government currently reviewing 2019 plan as European leaders grow concerned over Putin’s Ukraine escalation
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Barry J Whyte
  • October 8, 2022
Nuclear Power

John Gibbons: Clean, safe, always on – why nuclear power demands a rethink

Nuclear power has long been wrongly conflated with nuclear annihilation and the Cold War but in fact nuclear plants have caused fewer than 50 fatalities ever
  • John Gibbons
  • May 14, 2022

Clear and present dangers: The risks the country’s face, and how we should prepare

The government has just published its annual National Risk Assessment – the 2019 edition of which predicted the pandemic. What does this year’s edition hold in store?
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 19, 2021

Almost 1% of Ireland’s electricity was nuclear-generated last year

Some 16% of the energy imported from Britain in 2020 came from nuclear power
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • October 18, 2021

The nuclear option: Amid an energy supply deficit could small new-generation reactors work in Ireland?

It’s been a generation since the anti-nuclear protests at Carnsore Poin helped to scupper plans for a nuclear reactor in Ireland and made the production of nuclear energy here illegal. But times have changed and even Green Party leader Eamon Ryan says we should look at the nuclear options for sustainable power
  • Daniel Murray
  • July 18, 2021

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