Nuclear power - powerful energy source, powerful reactions

The idea of nuclear power always ignites profuse, and sometime violent, reactions.

A nuclear power plant.

However, it has been argued that if we are serious about reducing our carbon dioxide emissions, then it is time to embrace nuclear power.

A Professor of Climate Science, Barry Brook, and a Professor of Climatology, Tom Wigley, have argued for a new global movement in support of nuclear energy.

Writing on The Conversation in an article headed: “Serious about emissions? It’s time to embrace nuclear”, the paid said it was time the fossil-fuel-dominated energy was on the way into the environmental history books.

“There still exists a widely held belief that expanding electricity generation from nuclear fission poses a comparable or greater threat than climate change. This is a gross miscalculation of risk,” they said.