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Nuclear option not in NZ’s interests: academic | Otago Daily Times Online

Nuclear option not in NZ’s interests: academic
Otago Daily Times By John Gibb  26 Nov 2008 Opting for nuclear power would massively damage New Zealand’s export and tourism prospects, University of Otago historian Prof Tom Brooking warned yesterday……………….nuclear power would fatally damage the country’s “clean green” image abroad, on which much of the New Zealand’s export trade and tourism depended.

He also warned about the danger of adopting merely an “engineering solution” to key national problems, and emphasised the need to include perspectives drawn from the humanities, including a sense of history……………… Prof Rob Lawson, of commerce, said that the use of nuclear power internationally, without sufficient regard to the environmental costs of nuclear fuel disposal and the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, amounted to mortgaging the future of the planet.

Nuclear option not in NZ’s interests: academic | Otago Daily Times Online

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November 26, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY