TOP TEN FACTS

New to nuclear? Some of these facts might surprise and delight you.

If you support our goal of an evidence-based approach to clean energy for all, please talk about these issues with your family and friends.
Solving these problems will need people to keep asking questions and keep believing that solutions are possible.

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London: Global Green City

Published by IPPR Wed 6 Apr 2025 The Mayor of London elected in May 2016 will face formidable environmental challenges. London’s air pollution is lethal and illegal, responsible for more illness and premature deaths than alcohol or obesity. Traffic congestion is rising. Greenhouse gas emissions are not on track to meet current targets, and around […]

Nuclear power is in its infancy

John Laurie Energie du Thorium 18.02.2026   In an abandoned squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium, on 2nd December 1942 humanity gave birth to nuclear fission. The young human parents of this powerful child were right in the middle of a war. Impressed by his strength, they packed him […]
Natural Radiation

Nuclear is Normal: Nuclear is Natural

Will we have a second nuclear era? ~ Alvin M. Weinberg Nuclear energy was first used to generate electricity in 1951 at the EBR-I liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactor in Idaho, USA. However, it had existed on earth before this time. Notwithstanding the secret wartime CP-1 experiments under the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field stands […]