This is a very interesting piece from Mark Lynas in yesterday's Sunday Times. Mark is a leading environmental campaigner and long-standing opponent of nuclear energy as a solution to the environmental crisis.
Recently however, having studied evidence about the new breed of nuclear reactors currently being developed, he has changed his mind. And, predictably, he has been ostracised by much of the green community.
Like Mark, I have long opposed nuclear energy on grounds of safety and cost. But I have have always hoped that the time might come when science would succeed in addressing those concerns, and there would no longer be any moral or financial objection to nuclear.
I haven't yet studied the evidence Mark cites, but he knows his stuff; there must be something in it. The fight against climate change needs all the help in can get, so we should at least give him a hearing. It's too easy to cling onto comfortable, long-held convictions, but they won't necessarily help save the planet.
Mark's website is here.
I think it is time for us to see all the options for efficient and cost-effective source of energy. It is time to listen and keep an open mind to any possibilities as Science evolved everyday. Changing disposition is not a crime as scientist make new discoveries everyday and theories amended.
Posted by: mining xrf | Wednesday, 10 December 2008 at 09:16 AM