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Nuclear power: yes or no?

01 Oct 2010

The world is caught between providing enough energy for its citizens and fighting climate change by burning less fossil fuel. Ian Lowe says that climate change can only be tackled by using renewable energy sources, while Barry Brook argues that nuclear power offers the only alternative to fill this impending energy gap

Decision time
Ian Lowe There are no universal truths in a complex question such as the future role of nuclear powe

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Ian Lowe is president of the Australian Conservation Foundation and a climate scientist at Griffith University

Barry Brook holds the Sir Hubert Wilkins chair of climate change at the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute in Australia. He also runs the popular climate-change blog BraveNewClimate.com

Both authors contributed to a new book Why vs Why: Nuclear Power outlining the case for and against nuclear energy (2010, Pantera Press)
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