Saturday, October 06, 2012

Does the world need nuclear power to solve the climate crisis?


Nuclear power looks expensive and repulsive compared to increasingly affordable renewable energy, argues Oliver Tickell

Shortly after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the celebrated Guardian journalist George Monbiot wrote one of his most widely read articles. It was entitled 'Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power'. Whatever you might think of his judgement, you cannot fault his sense of the dramatic, or the paradoxical. "As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral," he announced. "I now support the technology."

See full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/20/world-need-nuclear-power-climate-crisis.