MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films
The nuclear question
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a detailed and well researched picture of the arguments for and against nuclear energy
DEADLY: The 250-MWe Dounreay prototype fast reactor in Scottland (large white and black building) which began generating electricity since 1975 alongside the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), a military submarine reactor testing facility
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JOSEPHINE BARBARO welcomes a diverse anthology of experiences by autistic women that amounts to a resounding chorus, demanding to be heard
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
PETER MASON is entertained by the autobiography of Charlie Harper, one of punk’s most enduring figures
JAMIE BRITTON reaches for the sick bucket as he is forced to engorge detail after detail of the Royal Family’s wealth
STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival
Going Nuclear
Mabon ap Gwynfor, self-published, £13
Going Nuclear by Plaid Cymru’s Senedd Member Mabon ap is a detailed examination of the links between the civil nuclear industry and how it subsidises and sustains Britain’s military nuclear capability.
The author lives in north Wales and is also the newly elected chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cymru.
Curently, in the the world’s difficult journey to net zero, protagonists for nuclear energy argue that we need it in the energy mix for those days when the sun is not shining and the wind refuses to blow.
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