Nuclear Nonsense
AUTHOR: Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: E09-10
YEAR: 2009
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article
PUBLISHER: Grist.org
Stewart Brand's book, Whole Earth Discipline, features a chapter claiming that new nuclear power plants are essential and desirable, and that a global "nuclear renaissance" is booming. Amory Lovins reviews the book and finds fatal flaws in the chapter's facts and logic. Lovins explains why each of Brand's claims are unsupportable.