Is there a change by green groups for nuclear energy?

A report from the UK says change is taking place, but some green groups in the US are still hard over against it.

In a news article datelined London, the Washington Post reports some green groups now see nuclear energy “as part of the answer” to the challenge of global warming.  This is good news in the U.K. where the government has committed itself to build 12 GWe of new nuclear power generation capacity at 10 sites. 

The newspaper reports that Stephen Tindale, (right) a former head of Greenpeace in the U.K., has changed his mind about nuclear energy.  After years of telling the public “nuclear power is evil,” he’s left the organization and now tells the Washington Post, “It really is a question about the greater evil – nuclear waste or climate change.”

Tindale’s trajectory from ant-nuclear opposition to pragmatic acceptance mirrors that of former U.S. Greenpeace leader Patrick Moore who since 2006 has stumped for the CASEnergy Coalition, a pro-nuclear group funded in part by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).  With all of this retrograde activity, one could think that other hard line anti-nuclear groups in the U.S. are on the verge of doing the same.  Think again.

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Special thanks to Jeff Madison, CEO of Cool Hand Nuke, for his support of the nuclear blogger and social media meeting that took place Nov 17 at the winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society. 

Jeff wrote that his reason for supporting the meeting, even though he couldn’t be there in person, is . . .

If we do not actively participate in the new, social media with the ensuing dialogue then we will eventually become victim to it. A decision to avoid engagement cedes the conversation to the under-informed and those pushing their own agenda.  This is our opportunity to inform and shape the conversations needed to secure a peaceful, nuclear future.

Hats off to Jeff for his support! 

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