Former NRC commissioner says illusion of nuclear revival "in ruins"

Former NRC commissioner, Peter Bradford (pictured left),  penned a column which appeared last week in the British daily, The Guardian, showing how the rhetoric and obedience on which the alleged nuclear "renaissance" depended was an illusion that "is all in ruins now.” The only four US reactors under construction are “hopelessly uneconomic,” Bradford wrote. "For various reasons, in many nations the nuclear industry cannot tell the truth about its progress, its promise or its perils. Its backers in government and in academia do no better," he wrote, describing the willingness of the media to lap up the propaganda. Read the full article.