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The folly of atomic power
RON JACOBS recommends a frank and honest assessment of the corrupt and profit-hungry nuclear industry
CHEAP PLUTONIUM FOR THE ARMS INDUSTRY: The South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) VC Summer Nuclear Station Unit 1, October 2013

Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change
MV Ramana, Verso, £20 

 

THIS past June, a couple of my sisters and I drove from California to Minnesota. One of the states we traveled through was Idaho. We gassed up in a town called Atomic City, which advertised itself as the first city in the United States to have nuclear-powered electricity. 

This town is inside what grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory, an 890 square mile research site run by the Department of Energy together with various commercial and military interests. Its website currently touts its scientific expertise and its mission devoted to carbon-free nuclear energy, alternative energy and military security. 

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