Activities

“The legacy of Nuclear Power” by Prof.Andrew Bowers, book review and interview by Jan Haverkamp

6 September 2017

In september 2016, Andrew Blowers, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the Open University published « The Legacy of Nuclear Power ». Nuclear energy leaves behind a dangerous legacy of radioactive wastes in places that are... Read more

12th European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF) conclusions

3 August 2017

On 01/08, the European Commission published the conclusions of the 12th European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF), which took place in Prague in May 2017. This year, a more...

Controversial amendments of Nuclear Energy Act: The Hungarian government...

11 July 2017

The Hungarian government furtively withdrew the two most controversial changes of the Nuclear Energy Act. These amendments passed in December 2016 allowed the government to bypass...

Documentation

New study: Health effects of ionising radiation and their consideration in radiation protection

20 June 2017

By Gabriele Mraz from the Austrian Institute of Ecology and Oda Becker, Independent Expert for the Risks of Nuclear Facilities based in Hannover. It is supported by the Vienna Ombuds-Office for Environmental Protection. While the... Read more

English summary of the Report of the German Commission on the Storage of High-...

22 February 2017

After more than two years of work the German commission on nuclear waste disposal (“Endlagerkommission”) in July 2016 released its final report. In February 2017 a...

EU nuclear decommissioning assistance programmes are over-budget and behind...

7 December 2016

A September 2016 report from the European Court of Auditors hilglights that Eight reactors across sites in three countries – Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovakia –are years...

Media

Evaluation of Czech national programme on radioactive waste and spent fuel management: NTW calls for proper...

28 June 2017

On 28.06.2017, a public hearing is held in Prague in the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) procedure on the Update of the National Programme on Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel...

Opinion on NGO participation in the ENEF conference in Bratislava

29 November 2016

Opinion column of Philip Kearney Together with three otherNuclear Transparency Watch colleagues I attended the European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF) conference in Bratislava on October 3-4. This...

How much will it really cost to decommission the ageing French nuclear fleet ?

30 March 2017

Dr Paul Dorfman NTW Member Honorary Senior Research Associate, Energy Institute, UCL Founder, ncg Faisabilité Technique et Financière du Démantèlement des Infrastructures Nucléaires The issue...

EURATOM: the nuclear exception

28 November 2016

An opinion column of Bender Javor, Member of the European Parliament and member of NTW Last week the European Commission made a decision on one of its investigations related to the new Nuclear...

Nuclear Transparency Watch

Prevent and anticipate through transparency and participation

Report on Responses to Foreign Contributions, Public Hearing of Czech Update of the...

Nuclear life extension: présentation of Jan Haverkamp 29 june 2017 ENSREG

Evaluation of Czech national programme on radioactive waste and spent fuel...