New UK Minister of Energy and Climate Change: nuclear power a "dead end"

The London Telegraph reports that the new U.K. Minister of Energy and Climate Change, Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne, has previously stated that “No private sector investor has built a nuclear power station anywhere in the world without lashings of government subsidy since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. The World Bank refuses to lend on nuclear projects because of the long history of overruns. Our message is clear, No to nuclear, as it is not a short cut, but a dead end.”

Russia to build first nuclear reactor in Turkey

The Mediterranean Anti-Nuclear Watch network has decried today's signing of an agreement between Turkey and Russia to build a nuclear reactor on the Turkish coast. The $20 billion agreement would allow the construction of Turkey's first nuclear plant, a plan the country had previously rejected. For more, read the MANW statement.