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The severe challenge posed by the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases has led to renewed interest in the construction of new nuclear power plants. The objective of this paper is to identify the key economic parameters commenting on their determining factors and to review the assumptions of main forecasts from the past five years to identify how and why these forecasts differ.

 Any civilian nuclear fuel cycle and especially some of the elements thereof confront the world with certain security-related risks. Nuclear materials, nuclear know-how, and technology can be proliferated.

The use of nuclear energy involves the work of several very different industrial plants. Each of these plant types has a specific hazardous potential.

The deep divide over nuclear power is nearly as old as its commercial use. - But the "accident-proof" reactor has remained an unfulfilled promise now for decades.

A series of papers on nuclear energy written by an international team of experts - published by the Johannesburg Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Africa is the continent that will be hit hardest by climate change. Unpredictable rains and floods, prolonged droughts, subsequent crop failures, and rapid desertification have already begun to change the face of our continent. Africa’s poor will be particularly hit by rising temperatures.

Heinrich Böll was a man who did not miss much, and whose short fiction, his Kurzgeschichten and his Erzählungen, are snapshots, colourful vignettes of the life and the people and the peculiar German world of his generation. But there were a few subjects that he was fixated upon. The latter would include trains and train stations, war and "the war", and then cigarettes.