Nuclear 2.0 Quotes

“Make no mistake: opposing low-carbon technologies is an implicit vote for a high-carbon energy system, and opponents must recognise this real-world trade-off.”[”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“There is no doubt that new designs available today are dramatically safer than those of the past, and that the potential for severe accidents in future vastly reduced.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“even if all fossil fuel runs out (or we decide to leave it in the ground so as not to fry the planet), there is no conceivable shortage of nuclear fuel to burn in fast reactors.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“This means that not only can fast reactors – deployed at scale – “solve” the nuclear waste “problem”, but that they can also run entire countries for centuries on uranium which has already been mined and for which there is little other use.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“The only serious debate in numbers terms is whether the death toll from coal is five hundred times worse than nuclear, or many thousands of times worse.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“Coal-fired power stations in fact release far more radiation into the environment than nuclear power stations, due to trace radionuclides being concentrated into coal ash and blown away in dust and smoke.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“Even if you built your house right at the perimeter fence of your local nuclear plant, you would still receive many times less additional radiation than an airline crew member would consider entirely normal, for example.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“In fact the only documented deaths attributable to Fukushima actually happened through panic-stricken attempts to avoid radiation.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“In other words, not only have there been no fatalities resulting from Fukushima, but there have been no radiation-related injuries or medically-identifiable health effects either.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“The history of the anti-nuclear movement is therefore not lit by sunshine, but shrouded in coal smoke.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“But just as they were spectacularly successful in stopping the growth of nuclear power, they were spectacularly unsuccessful in promoting the use of solar as an alternative”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“Either way, nuclear power is the only means by which we can generate prodigious amounts of energy with only a tiny human footprint on the planetary biosphere.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“Eco-romantics may fantasise about the pre-fossil fuels economy of the past, but the reality of pre-industrial agrarian society really was slavery, war, famine, disease and a short average lifespan for everyone except a very privileged aristocratic few.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“In terms of our energy mix, therefore, and despite tablet computers, synthetic biology and Twitter, we are really only mid-way through the Industrial Revolution.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“It is ironic but nonetheless true that for developing countries the best way to protect against the future effects of climate change is currently to burn more fossil fuels and thereby accelerate their economic development.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“In other words, we are losing the war on carbon precisely because we are winning the war on poverty.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

“With an Apollo Program scale-up of nuclear and other low-carbon power sources we still – just about – have time to avoid the worst of global warming.”
― Mark Lynas, Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power