THE huge arch of brightly coloured balloons strung over Bonn at last November’s international conference on climate change was not the work of the usual activists from Greenpeace. The demonstrators in the former German capital were smart young lobbyists from the nuclear industry.
The youth section of the European Nuclear Society, keen to highlight the fact that nuclear power stations do not emit the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, has taken a leaf out of the environmental campaigners’ handbook. But their photo opportunity may also signal the start of nuclear power’s last stand.
The consensus that human production of CO2…
