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Going Critical

George Monbiot · 21 Mar 2011

A change of mind in this piece

Nuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.

No longer holdsThe crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power.

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    Nuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.

    No longer holdsThe crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power.
    Their words nowAtomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has been small.

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