Professor Ian Plimer

It has to be cheap.

Unless it's cheap, you cannot run an industrial society.

To de-industrialise a society with expensive energy is not very sensible.

So I think to have a green revolution is wonderful because ultimately the market says, no, this is a busted flush.

It's not going to work.

Well, I think it's very complicated.

It's easy to frighten people with nuclear because you can't see it, you can't taste it, you can't smell it.

And if you've got a reactor near your house, you think, oh, it's going to blow up.

Well, some reactors, it's impossible for them to blow up.

The second thing is I think there's been an enormous amount of disinformation as part of Cold War tactics, and that continues.

The third thing is that nuclear power countries like France

went to nuclear power because there was a crisis, and that was the oil crisis, and now they are flush with cheap energy, which is nuclear.

So I think it's very easy to scare people with nuclear.

I think there's been quite a process that has been going on since Cold War times using Cold War tactics.

It's clearly not the only thing we should be having for energy.

We should have an energy mix for all the right reasons.

And I think nuclear obviously will come when there's an energy crisis.

That's how France got into being a nuclear country.

And there's tiny countries like Slovenia, three million people.

It's nuclear power.