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David Lowry

David Lowry is an independent research consultant, focusing on UK and EU nuclear and environment policy

September 2020

  • Frank Barnaby lecturing

    Letter: Frank Barnaby obituary

    David Lowry writes: Frank Barnaby shared his knowledge of nuclear physics and politics with me

December 2010

  • Sam Cohen

    Sam Cohen obituary

    American inventor of the neutron bomb who defended it as practical and humane

May 2009

  • Fran Macy

    Obituary: A green peacemaker as the cold war thawed

April 2009

  • One big nuclear family

    David Lowry

    David Lowry: With a few more olive branches and a bit less hypocrisy, there is new hope for progress over Iran's nuclear ambitions

March 2009

  • Ed Grothus has died aged 86

    Ed Grothus

    Obituary: US atomic worker turned maverick anti-nuclear activist

November 2008

  • Could nuclear sell-off be another taxpayer bail-out?

    When the government agreed to foreign company-led consortiums taking over, it was forced to agree to become the insurer of last resort

September 2008

  • Brown goes nuclear

    David Lowry

  • The nuclear industry's secret subsidies

    David Lowry

July 2008

  • Glowing for gold

    David Lowry

    David Lowry: New nuclear power plants could generate local investment, but waste will remain on site at the new reactors for up to 100 years

May 2008

  • Tom Tuohy

    Obituary: An unsung hero, his bravery averted a possible British nuclear catastrophe

July 2007

  • A small step for mankind

    David Lowry

    David Lowry: The British government has taken a modest initiative towards the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons.

June 2007

  • Ask, but don't tell

    David Lowry

    David Lowry: For 10 years ministers have been avoiding questions using 'disproportionate cost' as a justification. In most cases the cost is political, not financial.

May 2007

  • Power for the people

    David Lowry

  • Cif green
    Nuclear's hidden subsidies

    David Lowry

  • Nuclear wrangling

    David Lowry

  • From the Guardian archive
    The conspiracy theorists may be close to the truth

    Dr David Lowry

April 2007

  • Paul Leventhal

    Obituary: A radical campaigner, he spoke out against the proliferation of nuclear power.

March 2007

  • A failure to commit

    David Lowry

    David Lowry: As the government attempts to renew Trident, it is worth revisiting the statements the UK made about nuclear disarmament in the 1960s.

April 2004

  • Ross Hesketh

    In October 1981, Ross Hesketh, who has died aged 74, wrote to the letters page of the Times. His was no ordinary letter, as it directly criticised the policy on plutonium of the then Conservative government. He wrote it - deliberately and rightly - from his position as a senior research scientist at the nuclear laboratories at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, of the then Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB).

December 2000

  • Jinzaburo Takagi

    The Japanese scientist, Jinzaburo Takagi, who has died of cancer aged 62, was an internationally renowned critic of the nuclear industry.
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