File 3 - Press cuttings mainly relating to nuclear power and Ireland

Press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Evening Echo, Hibernia, Hot Press, Irish Times and Sunday Independent, originally contained in a folder marked ‘Newsclippings Nuclear – Ireland End 1979.’ Topics include the debate for and against the introduction of nuclear power into Ireland; alternative sources of energy; activities of anti-nuclear groups in Ireland and abroad; nuclear accidents; unreliability of official energy need forecasts; the arms race and the threat of nuclear war; EEC support for a nuclear plant in Ireland; British nuclear programme; dangers involved in transporting and storing plutonium; the film The China Syndrome; Carnsore public inquiry and the role of political parties in it; uranium mining; Kinsale gas field; the prospect of power cuts in the coming winter; and the impact of ecological issues and conservationist parties in the forthcoming European election. The press cuttings are grouped into months by blank sheets of paper. In ten folders.