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Mary Mycio – Wormwood Forest

May 13, 2006 By Rod Adams

A random web search led me to a BBC interview with Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. The interview, titled Chernobyl, twenty years on aired on 29 March 2006 on Woman’s Hour.

The interview was fascinating and informative.

Here is a sample exchange from the interview:

Q: So what is your feeling about nuclear power?

A: My feeling about nuclear power has less to do with Chernobyl than with global warming. As a result of global warming, as a result of two Iraq wars, I have come to reluctantly support nuclear energy. And even when people say, “How about the victims of Chernobyl?”; “How about, you know all these health effects and all that”; the health effects of burning fossil fuels are spread out so diffusely that we can’t point to something while in nuclear energy it is easier to point to something, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

There is also a transcript of a different interview at Thereby Hangs a Tale where Ms. Mycio shares some stories about the research trips into “The Zone of Alienation” that led to her Wormwood Forest. Highly recommended.

I would love to talk with Ms. Mycio. Perhaps I can figure out how to contact her and interview her for The Atomic Show Podcast.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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