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February 1981 issue of Science + Technology, a magazine of Irish scientific and technological issues.

This sub-series contains press cuttings, mainly on the nuclear power, nuclear power stations, nuclear accidents and incidents, uranium mining, alternative energy sources, the energy industry, anti-nuclear groups and anti-nuclear protests.

Assorted loose press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Hibernia, Irish Independent, Irish Times, People, RTÉ Guide, Sunday Press, Sunday Tribune, Wexford People and unidentified newspapers. Topics include economic development in Ireland; the Harrisburg nuclear reactor accident; the film The China Syndrome; proposal to build a tunnel under the Lee River; alternative energy sources; prospects for nuclear power in Ireland; proposal to build a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point; activities of the Irish anti-nuclear groups; uranium mining; radiation hazards; Wood Quay; planning procedures; anti-nuclear stance of the Socialist Labour Party; the proportional representation system of voting in Ireland; the 1992-2001 Strategic Plan for Cork, and the 1992 Earth Summit. Also obituaries and assorted articles on ephemeral subjects. Also a set of press cuttings and cartoons attached to a brochure entitled Face the Facts with a compliment slip of the Dublin West County Anti-Nuclear Group. In three folders.

Press cuttings from the Evening Press, Hibernian, Irish Independent, Irish Press, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Sunday Press and unidentified newspapers, originally held in the Dublin office of the Friends of the Earth. Topics include the nuclear debate; risks of nuclear power plants; demand for a public inquiry into Carnsore Point; uranium finds in Wicklow and Carlow; search for uranium in County Tyrone; anti-nuclear protests in Ireland and abroad; Labour Party policy on nuclear power; alternative sources of energy; the dangers of asbestos; and EEC nuclear dictation and its effect on Fianna Fáil’s commitment to nuclear power. The press cuttings are grouped into months by dividers, which are copies of a letter from Simon Dalby to Department of Geography, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2, seeking responses to a previously sent questionnaire regarding the controversy surrounding nuclear power in Ireland. In seven folders.

Energy in Question. Report of a Working Party on the future sources of energy for Ireland. [Dublin:] An Taisce, 1979.

Final Report of the Committee of Industrial Relations in the Electricity Supply Board. Dublin: The Stationery Office, [1969].

Nuclear Energy and the Environment. Preliminary Version. Transmitted by the Governments of Spain and France. United Nations Economic and Social Council. Economic Commission for Europe, Committee on Electric Power, [1979].

The Toxic Waste Problem in Ireland. The Need for Solutions. Report produced by the Munster Anti-Pollution Campaign following the fish kill at Mitchelstown (for which see P28/1/7/4), putting across the organisation’s point of view.

Nuclear Energy (An Bord Fuinnimh Nuicleigh) Act, 1971. Dublin: The Stationery Office, [1971].

This series contains fact sheets, programmes, membership lists, minutes, planning appeals, press releases and statements, posters, advertisements and photographs produced by political parties and anti-nuclear action groups and collected by Simon Dalby for the preparation of his MA thesis.