NUCLEAR NONSENSE: Interview # 1 - Harvey Wasserman

Only Kooks Push Nukes
In EON's on-going interview series NUCLEAR NONSENSE: Debunking the 'Nuclear Renaissance', energy researchers and veteran campaigners point out the cascade of fatal fallacies on which this global corporate, short-term profit-driven PR blitz is based.

In interview #1 author, veteran investigative reporter and former energy adviser to Greenpeace Harvey Wasserman debunks the effort to market nuclear power as a 'cure' for global climate change and peak oil. His book SOLARTOPIA is available at http://www.solartopia.org/

Watch this space for more interviews in the series

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• harvey
• wasserman
• nuclear
• renaissance
• climate
• change
• post-carbon
• energy
• solartopia

[soylentgreenb]

"Both solar and wind, if properly sited, can provide peak power."

Wind cannot replace any fossil fuels. See Germany or Denmark; they're little additional sources that can never be relied on to produce power at any given movement; they're a supplement to natural gas at best.

[powerhawk56]

Yeah, that was part of the one thing. Wind is highly debatable, I used to think that it was an ok source but now only in smaller dc sized mills maybe. Hydro and Geothermal are also quite interesting. Geo poses some great engineering challenges that could make it not as limited as hydro if solved.

[powerease]

The inherent problems Wasserman speaks to regarding the nuclear industry were known by key industry insiders and regulators back in the 1950s. See the BBC documentary series, "Pandora's Box", segment titled, "A is for Atom".

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[gamble180]

If we could harness the force that uglied Harvey's teeth, we could power the world for centuries.

[derman077]

What happens if Earth gets hit by something and the sky gets darkened? It may be a combination we need. Wind Solar Geothermal Nuclear Over-unity if possible.

[christo930]

@gigibson2718 99% of the windmills that can be built haven't been built yet. Offshore wind is a great new frontier.

This video is nothing but his opinion and none of it is backed with evidence. It's like listening to Alex Jones.

[XPLAlN]

A classic propagandist rant! Thanks for capturing for posterity.

[frea35g]

I saw another video just now where Harvey Wesserman goes on Democracy Now! to debate nuclear power and he calls the state maintained nuclear power plant system in France "National Socialism". Nuclear power = Nazism, thanks Greenpeace.

This basically shows how intellectually honest he is. "Veteran investigative reporter" my ass.

[gigibson2718]

I think everyone is missing a key point on hydro plants. Geography. You can't just build them anywhere. Same with geothermal and wind.

A power plant in California will not provide power to the eastern seaboard. There are losses inherent in transit.

Wind and solar plants NEED natural gas to power them when there is no sun/wind.

Finally, where are you going to put these giant, inefficient, low producing fields of wind/solar plants?

Nuclear power ftw!

[patriotsundergod]

Humans only produce less than 2% of all CO2

[bimmjim]

I did engineering in mining, construction and manufacturing and I don't find any mistakes in Wassermans video. Since I majored in metalurgy, I can add that the effects caused by irradiating materials over long periods of time is not well understood. Wasserman hints at this when he mentions how the high level waste containers are already beginning to crumble.

I did metallurgy on some N-Plant parts and as a result of that experience I don't want to live anywhere near a nuclear plant. NO WAY!