Tim Gregory is a nuclear chemist and the author of 'Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World'. He is an Associate Fellow of Bright Blue
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On the morning of the 28 April 1986, a worker at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden set off the radiation alarm. The bottom of his shoe was contaminated. But the contamination hadn’t come from Forsmark. It had drifted from a reactor 780 miles to the south-east, still burning after it had exploded two days
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We have just about made it out of the doldrums. I’m not talking about Britain’s economic fortune. Nor am I talking about the NHS waiting list. (Both remain dire.) In true British form, I’m talking about the weather. Long our favourite subject of chit-chat, the weather has in recent years become the master of our
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The Red Queen warned Alice, ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.’ Her quip captures a cruel reality: things decay all by themselves when left unattended; keeping up – let alone making progress – requires sustained effort. And so it goes with Britain’s decaying
