Nuclear power -- is the health risk too great?

The Great Debate Schools Programme: Nuclear power is the answer to the world’s energy problems

The debate about nuclear power for electricity generation is one that has run for decades, with ever changing terms of reference. The 1970s and 1980s saw a significant expansion in numbers of nuclear power plants in Europe and the US and a parallel growth of anti-nuclear movements which focused on three different areas: health considerations, associated with fears about exposure to radiation; p...

How Much Is Too Little to Detect Impacts? A Case Study of a Nuclear Power Plant

Several approaches have been proposed to assess impacts on natural assemblages. Ideally, the potentially impacted site and multiple reference sites are sampled through time, before and after the impact. Often, however, the lack of information regarding the potential overall impact, the lack of knowledge about the environment in many regions worldwide, budgets constraints and the increasing dime...

Global health and the G8--is power just too sweet to share?

nuclear power: is it blessing or disaster in east asia?

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Environmental health risk assessment due to radionuclides and metal(loid)s for Igdir province in Anatolia, near the Metsamor nuclear power plant

Background: There have been growing concerns about environmental pollution and public health issues associated with metal(loid)s and radionuclides. As a baseline for monitorisation, radioactivity and specific metal(loid) levels have been measured to investigate the estimated environmental health risks in Igdir province at the Turkish side of the border, in the vicinity of the Metsamor Nuclear P...