Article: Going Nuclear; A Green Makes the Case

Patrick Moore
The Washington Post
04-16-2006
Going Nuclear; A Green Makes the Case
Byline: Patrick Moore
Edition: FINAL
Section: Outlook

In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear
energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots.
That's the conviction that inspired Greenpeace's first voyage up the spectacular
rocky northwest coast to protest the testing of U.S. hydrogen bombs in
Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Thirty years on, my views have changed, and
the rest of the environmental movement needs to update its views, too,
because nuclear energy may just be the energy source that can save our
planet from another possible disaster: catastrophic ...