Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025, M.V. Ramana's book, Nuclear Is Not The Solution

Posted: 15th September 2025

Combining an easy read with a complex subject is no mean feat. M.V. Ramana’s book, Nuclear Is Not The Solution, achieves it with ease, writes Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter in her review.

Why not nuclear? The answers

Why not nuclear for climate is a simple question which often engenders a long and complicated answer. Now we are also asked, why not small modular reactors? In his new book, M.V. Ramana delivers those answers with accessible clarity - among them the illusory nature of new reactors, the hollow propaganda around them, the insane costs, interminable timelines, the jobs delusions and unsolved waste challenges. But he also touches on something more fundamental - the need for systemic political change to loosen the corporate grip on our governing bodies. READ MORE

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