A Bright Future, by Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

Last week the government announced its Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, and point number three is “delivering new and advanced nuclear power”. Since it’s happening, it’s a good time to review the whole issue of nuclear power in an age of climate change, and this book is a useful place to start: A Bright Future: How some countries have solved climate change and the rest can follow.

Not that you’d know from the title that this is a book entirely about nuclear power. Nor fro...