The Nuclear Fallacy

(based in part on a recent article by Yves Cochet, ex-French Minister for the Environment with his permission — quotes transl. by me)

(Mixed media combining the 2007 ionizing radiation ISO and IAEA warning symbol with a picture of IAEA fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman examining Reactor Unit 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on 27 May 2011, Wikimedia Common)

After many years of quietness, recent months have seen a flurry of posts, articles, peer reviewed papers, reports and plans advocating large-scale development of nuclear power in a variety of forms, from small modular reactors (SMRs) to very large power plants like the fated European Pressurised…