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Myths about nuclear energy: how the energy lobby is pulling the wool over our eyes: publication series on ecology (2010)

Auteur	G.Rosenkranz, H.Böll Foundation
Datum	september 2010
Classificatie	6.01.0.00/265 (ALGEMEEN)
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The advocates of nuclear energy in many industrialised countries take obvious 
delight in what they call the 'de-ideologisation' of the conflict surrounding this 
energy. In view of climate change and an ever-increasing shortage of fossil energy 
sources, the tone is said to have become "calmer and more reasonable". In particular 
the supporters of nuclear electricity production are jubilant about this easing of 
tension unless there happens to be an election looming. For decades the political-
societal debate has moved away from the fundamental safety issues of nuclear 
energy to questions about the economy, climate protection, the conservation of 
resources and the safeguarding of energy supplies. In public perception, nuclear 
energy could thus become one technology among many, its use being simply a 
question of weighing everything in the same way as choosing between coal and 
natural 9as power stations. Nuclear fission is thus becoming increasingly integrated 
into what economists have defined as the triangle of the political energy debate 
consisting of economic viability, safeguarding energy supplies and the impact on 
the environment. The fact that safeguarding against catastrophes is not an aim of 
nuclear energy is of less concern to its supporters. On the contrary they are 
extremely satisfied. Supporters of nuclear energy are becoming increasingly 
successful at concealing this technology's unique potential for catastrophe behind 
a wall of arguments, all of which have one main purpose: to distract from the 
fundamental questions of safety. This publication provides the long due knowledge 
for critically debating nuclear power, identifying alternatives and exposing nuclear 
power as what it is: an irresponsible and expensive high-risk technology.

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