Mark Lynas: the green heretic persecuted for his nuclear conversion

The Times by Mark Lynas | Sep. 28, 2008 (Opinion)

Best of all, these new reactors - prototypes of which have already been tested - can produce power by burning up existing stocks of nuclear waste. As Blees puts it: "Thus we have a prodigious supply of free fuel that is actually even better than free, for it is material that we are quite desperate to get rid of." Who could object to that? Full Story »

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Paul Peete
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 by Paul Peete - Oct. 1, 2008

This article, because it represents an advocate's shift from green to pro nuclear in a similar way Greenpeace's former co-founder Patrick Moore did, sparked my interest. However on close reading it offered little in regard to any underlying proof of fast breeder reactors safety, only his conversion to it. The reference to Tom Blees book, Prescription For The Planet was not synopsized or further explained.

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