Description
This new edition of Dollars for Death: Say NO to Uranium Mining and Nuclear Power is edited by Jim Green, national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth. Dollars for Death addresses many of the problems associated with uranium mining and nuclear power: the adverse environmental effects, the limitations of ‘safeguards’ that claim to preclude the use of Australian uranium in nuclear weapons, the huge water consumption of nuclear power plants, the after-effects of the Fukushima disaster, the legacy of nuclear waste and the crude racism that is so often a feature of nuclear politics. Nuclear power is often touted as a solution to climate change. But why turn to a technology with so many inherent and intractable problems when renewable alternative are so abundantly available?