Myth Busting

Public understanding has been largely shaped by anti-nuclear campaigners…and the movie business.

If you support our goal of an evidence-based approach to clean energy for all, please talk about these issues with your family and friends.
Solving these problems will need people to keep asking questions and keep believing that solutions are possible.

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Making Sense of Radiation

Check out this guide to radiation and its health effects.

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Gerry Thomas in Fukushima

Gerry Thomas interview on fifth anniversary of Fukushima accident

BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, 11 March 2026 Interviewer, John Humphrys Guest: Professor Gerry Thomas, Imperial College London John Humphrys (JH): It is five years to the day since a giant earthquake and tsunami hit north east Japan. It left more than 18,000 people dead. It crippled the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, raising fears […]
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Nuclear is Normal: Nuclear is Natural

Will we have a second nuclear era? ~ Alvin M. Weinberg Nuclear energy was first used to generate electricity in 1951 at the EBR-I liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactor in Idaho, USA. However, it had existed on earth before this time. Notwithstanding the secret wartime CP-1 experiments under the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field stands […]
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Nuclear is Normal: Comparing Air Travel to Nuclear Energy

Guest post by Oscar Archer @ActinideAge “Airlines… show you pictures of people on beaches. They don’t tell you they’re safe.” ~ Ben Heard In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew off course and into the ocean. 239 people tragically lost their lives, and the next day millions of people quite sensibly boarded their flights. Families […]