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  Berry's nuclear fallout has lost her my vote

  18 Mar 2009:

  George Monbiot: How the Green party's Siân Berry has lost my vote

• A kneejerk rejection of nuclear power is not an option

  20 Feb 2009:

  George Monbiot: We have a duty to be as realistic as possible about how we might best prevent runaway climate change

• Old King Coal is a brave old soul, but he is talking utter nonsense

  12 Aug 2008:

  George Monbiot: Arthur Scargill's nostalgia would punish the people he cares about. And as for his room-full-of-radiation challenge? I accept

• We lie and bluster about our nukes - and then wag our fingers at Iran

  29 Jul 2008:

  George Monbiot: By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad

• Dounreay's catalogue of idiocy is a cautionary tale of nuclear danger

  12 Sep 2006: George Monbiot: One thing would have prevented decades of radioactive pollution in the far north of Scotland: open government.

• Sure, nuclear power is safer than in the past - but we still don't need it

  11 Jul 2006: George Monbiot: It's true that another Chernobyl couldn't happen in a new reactor, but the case against is as strong as ever.

• We must cut demand to have any hope of solving the energy crisis

  29 Nov 2005:

  George Monbiot: Neither the nuclear evangelists nor the renewables enthusiasts can take comfort from my calculations.

• The chief scientific adviser has become a government spin doctor

  25 Oct 2005:

  George Monbiot: The man who told the truth about climate change is now selling nuclear power for his political masters.

• There is an alternative

  7 Sep 2004:

  George Monbiot: Politicians are once more revving up the debate that only nuclear power can save the planet.

• Dangerous waters

  11 Jun 2002: George Monbiot: By shipping plutonium around the world, Britain is courting catastrophe.

• The nuclear winter draws near

  30 Mar 2000:

  The great experiment is over. The technology which would, we were promised, provide "electricity too cheap to meter" has failed: nuclear power in Britain is melting down. Germany, Sweden and Japan have all banned their imports of mixed oxide fuel from Britain. The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has reported "systematic management failures" at Sellafield. The government is proposing to abandon nuclear reprocessing in Britain, and if it falters Ireland and Denmark will force its hand in June. The planned privatisation of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has been suspended. Analysts have been puzzling over why the industry should be collapsing so quickly. But the question we should surely be asking is how it has survived so long.