A couple of days ago I mentioned a new pro-nuclear blog titled “Some Truths of Things” written by a grad student in Melbourne, Australia. In that post I also mentioned that he has written a detailed academic paper – still a work in progress, but with references and citations – that is a rebuttal to Helen Caldicott’s “Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.”
At least one reader asked me to post a link to that paper so here is is:
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