Nuclear power is not the answer, Helen Caldicott.
Politicians of late are fond of pointing to nuclear power as a "clean" energy source. The author disagrees, showing how nuclear energy contributes to global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. , is prohibitively pro·hib·i·tive also pro·hib·i·to·ry
adj.
1. Prohibiting; forbidding: took prohibitive measures.
2. expensive and that the world lacks sufficient uranium uranium (y rā`nēəm), radioactive metallic chemical element; symbol U; at. no. 92; at. wt. 238.0289; m.p. 1,132°C;; b.p. 3,818°C;; sp. gr. 19. in any case.
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