The climate crisis has inspired new hope in nuclear energy. Its advocates claim we already have
the technology of the future ready to be perfected and deployed. But as M. V. Ramana argues in
this urgent and lucid book such thinking is not only naïve but dangerous. Beyond the
horrific risk of severe accidents and the intractable problem of waste disposal nuclear
energy fails the two key tests for any climate solution: cost and time. More expensive than
wind and solar it is also far slower to bring online. A typical plant takes a decade to build
permitting and financing often add another. These are years we do not have. Nuclear Is Not
the Solution dismantles the myth of cheap clean atomic energy and exposes the vested interests
that seek to profit from the technology while offloading its costs and risks onto the public.
