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Read this book!

 M.V. Ramana’s new book, Nuclear Is Not The Solution, The Folly of Atomic
Power in the Age of Climate Change.

I must confess that I read Ramana’s book some time ago — in other words, immediately upon receipt — because I knew it was going to be a riveting read as well as an essential primer.

Then I got enmeshed in completing my own book — No To Nuclear. Why
Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War (to
be published by Pluto Press next March and for which Ramana provided some
invaluable feedback).

Consequently, this review is inexcusably late. I
could stop here and just say “Read This Book!” But it’s important to
say why it’s essential reading. One of the challenges of our subject area
is its complexity. We struggle to reduce it to a soundbite. We must,
perforce, explain. And in so explaining, we risk losing an audience waiting
for a simple answer to the question: “Why not nuclear power?” Now, that
challenge has been made doubly difficult by having to further explain,
“why not small modular reactors?”

M.V. Ramana answers these questions
and more in his comprehensive yet concise volume, covering not only the
illusory new reactors themselves but the propaganda around them, the insane
costs, interminable timelines, the jobs delusion, false sense of prestige,
persistent waste problems and, of course, the ties to nuclear weapons. In a
stroke of brilliant originality, Ramana finds the perfect analogy to
describe the folly of small modular reactors, by quoting, of all people,
the legendary British football manager, Brian Clough. “We had a good team
on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.” “On paper” is
exactly where small modular reactors remain.

 Beyond Nuclear 14th Sept 2025,
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/09/14/read-this-book/

September 20, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | media