Letter to New York Times. Regarding the opinion article “Nuclear power can save the world” (April 7) it is noteworthy that only one of the three expert authors would appear to have any energy expertise, and frankly it reads that way, starting with its tendentiously misleading headline. The article is egregiously replete with errors of fact and interpretation, making it difficult to compose a complete riposte. Instead, may I just address two grossly misleading assertions? Firstly, nuclear waste could only be described as “compact” if you were to refer to discharged irradiated spent reactor fuel alone, and ignore the huge quantities of uranium waste tailings at uranium mines and the massive radioactive hulks of closed nuclear facilities awaiting decommissioning. Moreover, it is simply untrue to state bluntly that nuclear power plants “have not contributed to weapons proliferation.”
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