[Diggers350] When the Green Party embraced Nuclear Power, Weapons and Waste this week , did it abandon its raison d’être?

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When the Green Party embraced Nuclear Power, 
Weapons and Waste this week, did it abandon its 
raison d’être? By Dr Chris Busby https://tlio.org.uk/green-nuclear-power/

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Green Party and Nuclear Energy

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Oct 09, 2026 Christopher Busby

The recent Brighton conference policy change of 
the Green Party of England and Wales to embrace 
nuclear energy was sad but not unexpected. I have 
believed since Fukushima that the nuclear 
operators (which we used to call the nuclear 
military complex, or their agents, the 
nuclearists) had started seriously focusing on 
the last political fortress of those opposing 
nuclear. In the hysteria following Fukushima, 
they were forced to bring out their Queen, George 
Monbiot and his Guardian megaphone. This began 
with his Pauline conversion (no one has died from 
the radioactive releases) and moving to his 
attacks on me, on Christopher Busby (false 
scientist, fraud). I have written and spoken 
elsewhere that all that he said about me 
(peddling anti-radiation pills and making stupid 
epidemiological mistakes) was a pack of lies and 
half-truths, supported by bogus scientists like 
Gerry Thomas so I won’t say any more here about 
that. Except that the Green Party immediately 
disowned me, and all the funding I was receiving 
(Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Goldsmiths, the Gillettes) vanished.

Emacs!



But at the time, I was the Green Party National 
Speaker on Science and Technology, and 
immediately following Fukushima, I explained the 
problem on prime-time TV News for the BBC and 
also ITN. You can see these interviews on Youtube 
still. Everything I said then (opposed by some 
pro-nuclear furby) has since been shown to be 
true. Cancer and leukemia rates have increased in 
Japan, and also generally every country that provides cancer data.

But the Green Party began as an anti-nuclear 
party in Germany, with Petra Kelly. When I 
chained myself to the gates of Trawsfynydd 
Nuclear Power Station in Wales in 1992, Petra 
Kelly had agreed to come and support our campaign 
against opening the nuclear site, which was 
dangerous. The station operators had applied to 
run the reactors at a high temperature to anneal 
the cracks in the pressure vessel. This was not 
long after the experiment at Chernobyl. And the 
contamination of Wales by Chernobyl (which led to 
sharp increases in cancer and child leukemia).

AI (Bless her cotton socks) has this to say:

In 1992, the specific direct action involving 
anti-radiation scientist and activist Dr. 
Christopher Busby at the Trawsfynydd Nuclear 
Power Station was a coordinated blockade that 
chained shut the facility’s main gates

Having joined the Green Party that same year, 
Busby organized and led the action:

The Tactic: Activists targeted the main entrance 
of the power station, using heavy-duty D-locks 
and chains to secure themselves directly to the 
gate mechanisms, effectively blocking vehicle access to the site

Media Strategy: Busby deliberately tipped off 
major news outlets beforehand. The imagery of the 
locked gates and the high-stakes protest made 
national headlines on both BBC and ITV news broadcasts

The Aftermath: The protest successfully amplified 
the public safety debate surrounding the 
station’s embrittled reactor pressure vessels. It 
is frequently cited by Busby and Green Party 
organizers as a pivotal moment of non-violent 
pressure that ultimately pushed the operator to 
announce the plant’s permanent economic closure the following year.

We were all a bit scared by this project. The 
nuclear police had pistols and we were told they 
would shoot us. Petra Kelly was assassinated a 
few months after this. How can I say this? How do 
I know? Well, of course I don’t know and cannot 
be sure. But here is something you don’t know 
about this. The story now widely accepted (look 
at Wikipedia) is that her man, General Gert Bastiaan killed her.

The police determined that Kelly was shot dead 
while sleeping by Bastian, who then died of suicide.

Well and Good. But I spoke with Prof Ernest 
Sternglass about this. He knew both of them, and 
said it was impossible that Bastiaan would have 
killed her and himself. They were full of 
positive energy and life, when he met them in 
Berlin some 6 weeks before she died. She was very 
excited. She had received an offer of 
considerable financial support by German TV to 
make a series of documentaries with Russian and 
Belarussian scientists including Dr. Shevchenko, 
to report on the real health effects of the 
Chernobyl accident contamination. At the time, 
the nuclear operators and their tame scientists 
in the IAEA and the WHO were stating that there 
were no measurable health effects. It was the 
same at Fukushima some twenty years later. But 
back in those days they killed you, rather than 
using media to destroy your credibility. Erin 
Brockovitch for example. Ernest told me he later 
had a phone call from Shevchenko from Mexico who 
told him he was on the run and feared for his life.

Another example, which I investigated more 
closely was the Patricia Sheehan death in 
Ireland. I have done a lot of research on Ireland 
about radiation from Sellafield and wrote the 
result up in my book Wolves of Water (2006). That 
was funded by the Rowntrees. But in 1997 I was 
supported by the Irish State to carry out the 
research on cancer in North Wales (which Monbiot 
attacked) and also Ireland, where I was sent all 
the data from the Irish Cancer Registry to see if 
a similar sea coast effect existed in eastern 
areas contaminated by the Sellafield releases. It did.

Dr Patricia Sheehan, of Dundalk (County Louth) 
reported in 1983 in the British Medical Journal 
that there was a cluster of 6 Downs Syndrome 
babies born to women who attended St Louis Girls 
School in Dundalk at the time of the Windscale 
(now Sellafield) reactor fire in 1957. Later she 
found two more, totalling 8, a cohort of 8 
mothers. This is a statistically impossible event 
(background rate is 1 in 1000 live births, there 
were 28 women in the class). and so there must be 
a cause. Radiation of mothers causes Downs 
Syndrome in the babies. But huge efforts were 
made to dismiss her findings and sideline her 
efforts. I personally met with and spoke to many 
of the people involved in this. Including the dodgy characters.

AI again:

Her dedication brought the case into 
international scientific view, though her 
specific theories were eventually scientifically dismissed after her death

She published further studies in 1994, continuing 
to argue that Sellafield’s environmental 
discharges were linked to Irish birth defects. 
Her work frequently fueled intense political 
debates in Ireland’s parliament (Dáil Éireann) 
regarding the safety of the Irish Sea

Tragically, Dr. Patricia Sheehan died in a car 
accident on July 7, 1994, before the definitive 
epidemiological review of her cluster was fully realized.

I have driven on the road she died on many times. 
Her car ran off the road and crashed. No 
witnesses. That road from Dundalk is a good wide 
road. An easy road. There is no way on that road 
that she could have run off it. She was pushed off it in some way.

For example, Rosalie Bertell told me a story 
once. She was returning home from a conference in 
New York, to Canada where she lived at the time. 
A big truck with rolls of barbed wire overtook 
her on a straight stretch of road miles from 
anywhere. It went in front of her and two rolls 
of barbed wire dropped off the back and landed in 
her path. She braked and swerved and by some 
miracle didn’t go off the road and down the hill 
into the forest. She sat there for a minute or 
two and a big Police car with two officers came 
up and asked her what happened. She told them; 
they went in pursuit of the truck. She sat there 
for a long time. Eventually, maybe some hours, 
another police car came up. She told them what 
happened: they said there was no other police car on that stretch.

Others have died in car accidents. I myself, when 
driving my 650 motorbike from Sweden to Denmark 
was followed closely by a big SUV. It had 
followed me across the country from Stockholm to 
Goteborg, appearing and disappearing, picking me 
up again after a night’s stop in Jonkoping. On 
the Denmark motorway south, I began to realise 
that I was being followed. I was not sure about 
the intention; they speeded up when I did and 
slowed down when I did. I tucked in front of 
another car and stayed between two cars driving 
at about 70 to 80mph so they couldn’t get close. 
It was scary. But they followed me for an hour or 
so across Denmark until I peeled off for Alkmaar.

Back to Petra Kelly. I spoke with Scottish Dave 
in Clonakilty. He said that he was at a party in 
Dublin where Green Party leader Sarah Parkin was 
peddling her book about Petra Kelly. She wrote 
this book to put the story about that Bastiaan 
had shot Kelly. She made a special point to 
Scottish Dave (without knowing that he was a 
friend) that my ideas on nuclear power and health 
were mad. Parkin was married to Dr D M (Max) 
Parkin who ran the central (IARC) operation in 
Lyon which was set up to provide dishonest 
epidemiological papers showing that the Chernobyl 
accident had no measurable health effects. Parkin 
wrote an influential paper about child leukaemia 
after Chernobyl which is as full of holes as a 
colander. How could it be that Sarah Parkin, 
effectively head of the Green Party and Max 
Parkin (whose job became the gatekeeper of bad 
news about Chernobyl effects) were an item? 
Please! Parkin (and Porritt) always headed off 
any Green Party official interest in the health effects.

The infiltration of the Green Party over the time 
I was active, with Molly Scott Cato (and before, 
Trawsfynydd, Dungeness, non-violent Direct 
Action) was significant. But you could usually 
spot the individuals. Some of them are still 
there, pulling strings, altering minutes, 
changing agendas, dismissing dangerous 
individuals for the projects they are paid to 
tune or disrupt. Its like this everywhere. But 
this essay is about the Green Party.

On Feb 5th 1998 the STOA unit of the EU asked a 
number of scientists to discuss the draft 
Radiation Basic Safety Standards (BSS) Directive, 
which adopted the Radiation Risk Model of the 
International Commission on Radiological 
Protection (ICRP). Those invited (by the Greens) 
were Alice Stewart, Rosalie Bertell, Akexey 
Yablokov, Jean Francois Viel (who studied child 
leukemia at the La Hague reprocessing plant in 
France) and Christopher Busby (in the red corner) 
with the Scientific Secretary of the ICRP, Jack Valentin in the blue corner.

Between us, we pretty much destroyed the ICRP 
position, citing evidence: many studies that 
showed cancer and leukaemia increases at internal 
doses that were very low. At nuclear sites and 
after Chernobyl. We advised the Parliament to 
press for a clause in the BSS which demanded a 
re-assessment of the Justification of using the 
ICRP model to provide a basis for legal limits. 
And the Commission did provide such a clause: it 
is still there. It states that if new and 
important evidence becomes available that shows 
the ICRP model is wrong, then the whole thing has 
to be re-thought. Justification is about how many 
people can die annually in order to have the advantages of nuclear energy.



One of the original clauses of the BSS allowed 
the dilution of radioactivity from nuclear sites 
into consumer goods. Yes. You read that 
correctly. Richard Bramhall and I started a 
campaign in the Green Party to have this clause 
removed. The TV (in those pre-Iraq days actually 
covered news) gave us space, including a very 
powerful BBC2 documentary. The EU modified the 
clause. All the local Green parties went out on 
the streets to collect signatures. We got to meet 
Michael Meacher, the Environment Minister, and 
later we persuaded him to set up the Committee 
Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters, 
CERRIE. This met from 2000 to 2004 by which time 
it became clear that our arguments presented at 
the 1998 EU STOA meeting were supported, and that 
internal exposures were dangerous because of the 
ways on which the internal radioactive elements 
bound to DNA. What I later called radiochemical 
genotoxicity. The joint CERRIE study would have 
found, for example, that our work on the breast 
cancer rates near the Bradwell nuclear power 
station in Essex was correct: the rates were 
significantly high. So, CERRIE had to go: Meacher 
was sacked by Blair and it was swiftly shut down. 
Any dissenting report was banned. However, we had 
taken the opportunity to Sony DAT audio record 
every meeting and a transcript is being prepared. 
CERRIE was the point at which the science began 
to focus on internal radiation. It changed the direction of investigation.

At the 1998 conference, the destruction of the 
ICRP position was followed by a statement by 
their Scientific Secretary Jack Valentin. He 
said: ICRP is an independent charity and the EU 
can take advice from anyone it likes. The group 
thought about this and decided the time had come 
to provide independent advice based on published 
scientific and epidemiological evidence. We set 
up the European Committee on Radiation Risk 
(ECRR). We were given money by the Green Party 
and some Charitable organisations to provide a 
new radiation risk model which was based on 
contemporary and historic evidence. Much if this 
evidence resulted from the Chernobyl health 
effects, which were increasingly being reported 
everywhere. By 2003, the new risk model was ready 
and was presented in Brussels. The book was 
translated into Russian, Japanese, Spanish, and 
French. The ECRR followed it with an 
International Conference in Lesvos, Greece, 
funded by USA lawyer Stuart Smith, to further 
discuss the evidence and refine the model. 
Scientists came from USA, Europe, UK, Belarus, 
Russia and Ukraine. In 2010 a new ECRR Report was 
published. ECRR reports were published on 
Chernobyl effects, on Uranium and Uranium 
weapons, on mechanistic aspects of radiation 
biology, on photoelectron effects, and on many 
topics. ECRR scientists were invited to make 
presentations in most of the countries of Europe, 
in Japan after Fukushima, in the USA.

The sudden reversal of the position of the Green 
Party began with George Monbiot and Mark Lynas. 
Neither were experts or even scientists. Slowly 
the Greens were poisoned by the insidious message 
of those paid to divert their attention from the 
health effects. The anti-nuclear position was 
increasingly to argue that nuclear energy was too 
expensive, that it was uncompetitive, that it was 
the low-carbon answer to climate change, which 
was pitched as being due to Carbon Dioxide build 
up. The evidence that it was killing millions was 
side-lined and rubbished (ECRR2003 calculated 65 
million cancers). Monbiot himself had phoned me 
(I was in France at the time, I remember it well) 
before he published his seminal pro-nuclear essay 
in the Guardian. He asked about how radioactive 
emissions were causing cancer. Presumable to ask 
his controls how to deal with the counter arguments.

So, the aim of this essay is to point out that 
the Green Parties were more or less founded on 
the basis of anti-nuclear. If you have read 
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which pretty much 
started the environmental movement, you will 
remember that her main target was radioactive 
contamination: killing babies, causing cancer, 
twisting the genetic integrity of all life on 
Earth. Warnings historically given by a range of 
major scientific figures, Nobel prize winners 
Herman Muller, Linus Pauling, Andrey Sakharov, 
researchers like Alice Stewart, Rosalie Bertell, 
Ernest Sternglass, Karl Morgan, John Gofman, the list is long.

The Green Party had to be silenced, and they 
were, and now the process is complete. It was 
done with money and infiltration. I can name the 
players who did this. It included attacking the 
scientists personally: you don’t have to attack 
the science, the evidence, you ignore it. You 
attack the scientist. You do this in the 
newspapers and on the Internet. In the 2016 Test 
Veteran Court Case in the Royal Courts of 
Justice, I was not allowed to give evidence, on 
the basis that I was biased (i.e. my evidence 
opposed the ICRP model). The eminent ECRR experts 
we bought from Germany, Japan, and Ireland at 
great expense were ignored by the judge (Nick 
Blake) on the basis that they were members of the 
ECRR. Though by 2019, the Scottish High Court 
ruled that excluding my evidence had been Unlawful.

The other method, which the nuclearists have used 
since the 1990s, when I first walked into this 
intellectual swamp, is to set up and fund bogus 
anti-nuclear scientists and bogus anti-nuclear 
groups. The method, Bokononism, was described by 
Kurt Vonnegut (Cats Cradle) long ago: I can list 
the individuals and anti-nuclear groups and 
perhaps I will, but not here. This is about the Green Party.

But, as Joseph Conrad once wrote: after all the 
shouting is over, the grim silence of facts remains.

Those who supported the pro-nuclear motion at the 
Brighton conference (I read ) were mainly young 
people, young Greens. The Green Party in my day 
(1992-2011) were mostly not scientists (which is 
mainly why I became the Science and Technology 
Speaker); nowadays I look to see who is the 
expert on these issues and find it is the lady 
plumber who recently made parliament. She looks 
like a nice soul. And indeed, the leader Zac, 
looks like a nice guy. But none of them know 
anything about radiation (or I would guess 
science and technology, or epidemiology; these 
are arcane areas). There are no experts. And if I 
were to contact them to inform them that the risk 
model of the ICRP has killed 500,000,000 people 
since 1952, more than all the wars in History, 
they would look online, or ask AI, and be told I 
am a nutcase. After all, AI is just the assembly 
of all that’s on the Internet, providing a centre 
of gravity of belief. But not truth. And if you 
argue with AI, you can prove it wrong, then it always backs off and apologises.

The cancer epidemic began in 1980, some 20 years 
after the nuclear atmospheric testing 1959-63. I 
published a letter in the British Medical Journal 
about this in 1994. And wrote Wings of Death in 
1995, predicting that the children born in 
1959-1963 would have significant cancer excess 
when they grew up (they are now 60-65). They 
have. Those who were born in that period suffered 
an excess infant mortality. Those that survived 
have an excess cancer risk of more than 50%. We 
know this from studying and comparing areas of 
high fallout (high rainfall) with low fallout 
(low rainfall) by cohort year of birth in USA 
States, California and New Mexico (dry) versus 
Kentucky and Alabama (wet). This has been 
published in the scientific literature by two 
different research groups. It means that 1 in 3 
cancers was caused by radiation, essentially by 
the nuclear scientists who have lied and twisted 
the truth for more than 75 years.

Those who live near nuclear sites have an excess 
risk of cancer, as do airline stewards, CT 
patients, those living near radioactive 
contamination, or exposed to Uranium weapons (DU, 
EU) residues. But the Green Party members don’t 
look. Their gaze is diverted to Global Warming by 
people like Monbiot. Who has now decided (in a 
new book) that we should stop livestock farming 
and live on bacteria and insect pancakes.









































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