Event of this nature ‘highly improbable’, but government currently reviewing 2019 plan as European leaders grow concerned over Putin’s Ukraine escalation

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

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?

Some 16% of the energy imported from Britain in 2020 came from nuclear power

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