Moore: 'Gas costs three times as much as nuclear, at least … Solar costs 10 times as much.'
Pickering, Ontario -
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Why he says they're wrong to view nuclear energy as 'evil
MOORE:
My belief, in retrospect, is that because we were so focused on the destructive aspect of nuclear technology and nuclear war, we made the mistake of lumping nuclear energy in with nuclear weapons, as if all things nuclear were evil. And indeed today, Greenpeace still uses the word "evil" to describe nuclear energy. I think that's as big a mistake as if you lumped nuclear medicine in with nuclear weapons. Nuclear medicine uses radioactive isotopes to successfully treat millions of people every year, and those isotopes are all produced in nuclear reactors. Click here to read more...
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