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Nuclear is Not the Solution

M.V. Ramana

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Verso Books
6 January 2026
ISBN: 9781804290033
Paperback
272 pages

From the publisher

The climate crisis has inspired new hope in nuclear energy. Its advocates claim we already have the technology of the future, ready to be perfected and deployed. But as M. V. Ramana argues in this urgent and lucid book, such think ing is not only naive but dangerous.

Beyond the horrific risk of severe accidents and the intrac table problem of waste disposal, nuclear energy fails the two key tests for any climate solution: cost and time. More expensive than wind and solar, it is also far slower to bring online. A typical plant takes a decade to build; permitting and financing often add another. These are years we do not have.

Nuclear Is Not the Solution dismantles the myth of cheap, clean atomic energy and exposes the vested interests that seek to profit from the technology while offloading its costs and risks onto the public.