The existing UK nuclear facilities will leave us a legacy of half a million tonnes of nuclear waste – and some of this will remain as a threat to human health and the environment for hundreds of thousands of years.
The new catch-cry of the nuclear industry is that nuclear energy is the answer to global climate change. Nuclear energy is toxic and dangerous. Far from being rehabilitated, the
nuclear option is a convenient distraction from the problem of climate change and stalls real action to combat it.
The US is adopting an increasingly aggressive nuclear doctrine that is in danger of inflaming the growing number of potential flash points throughout Asia and the Middle East.
