INTRODUCTION – NUCLEAR ENERGY ANSWERS ITS CRITICS

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high. With green renewable energy technologies then under development, it was wind, solar, tidal, hydro and biomass energy systems that seemed to have the energy industry future wrapped up. Until they did, oil, gas and dirty old coal, would hold the line. At least burning these fossil ...


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