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February 07, 2008

Balancing The Nuclear Power Debate

By Alastair Ford

Winging its way around the world in electronic form is a selection of quotations from a book called “Power to Save the World – The Truth About Nuclear Power”. The book is by Gwyneth Cravens, but it’s not her or her publishers on a promote that are causing selected extracts to land in the inboxes of journalists and other industry watchers. Rather it’s the enthusiasm of Australian analyst Warwick Grigor of Far East Capital that’s causing the increasing dissemination of Gwyneth Cravens’s views.

It seems fairly clear what Mr Grigor’s own views are by the title he gives to his selection of extracts: “Time to Debunk All Those Lies About Nuclear Power That Have Been Spread By The Ferals and Pseudo-Greenies”. For those in any doubt as to what this means, a quick glance at the Concise Oxford Dictionary reveals that “feral” is in fact an adjective meaning “wild”, or “untamed”, but we like its use as a noun here. The wild and untamed “pseudo-greenies” certainly do get a hearing plenty often,...