Report on the 36 th Annual Symposium of the World Nuclear Association (WNA),Held in London in September 2011

‘Nuclear power: A dream that failed’, The Economist, 12 March 2012, on http://www.economist.com/node/21549936.

‘World Energy Council report details the limited impact of Fukushima on the global nuclear outlook’, Press Release, London, 8 March 2012, on http://www.worldenergy.org/wec_news/news_archive/3862.asp. The full report is on http://www.worldenergy.org/documents/world_energy_perspective__nuclear_energy_one_year_after_fukushima_world_energy_council_march_2012_1.pdf.

On recent incidents of what are delicately termed ‘electricity shortfalls’ around the world, see Sara Bryan Pasquier , Saving electricity in a hurry – update 2011, International Energy Agency, Paris, June 2011, on http://www.iea.org/papers/2011/Saving_Electricity.pdf.

Blue Ribbon Commission on America's nuclear future, Report to the Secretary of Energy, Washington, DC, January 2012, p ix, on http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/brc_finalreport_jan2012.pdf.

Ibid, pp ix, 47, 48, 52. For a view on how the content of communications might win consent for nuclear waste disposal, see James Woudhuysen Joe Kaplinsky , Energise! A future for energy innovation, Beautiful Books, 2009, pp236–8. Prism, a new means of disposing of plutonium touched on at the conference by Danny Roderick, a senior vice president at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, is covered in ‘Prism proposed for UK plutonium disposal’, World Nuclear News, 1 December 2011, on http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Prism_proposed_for_UK_plutonium_disposal-0112114.html?utm_source=World+Nuclear+News&utm_campaign=c3033bbc22-WNN_Weekly_29_November_5_December_201112_5_2011&utm_medium=email.