This week, Iona talks to Marco Visscher, author of The Power of Nuclear

Iona Italia talks to Marco Visscher , author of The Power of Nuclear , about nuclear power.

She talks about how he came to become an advocate for nuclear power after initial scepticism.

We discuss the role of nuclear power in mitigating climate change.

We also talk about the future of energy, in particular in Africa .

The biggest public health hazard in Fukushima is not so much diseases that are relatable to radiation because that is not at the case.

UNSCEAR has published reports showing that there are no discernible health effects from the radiation that was leaked from the Fukushima nuclear reactor.

But there is a spike in all kinds of mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, but also more obesity.

Hermann Muller pioneered the idea of linear no threshold, i.e. that there is no safe minimum dose of radiation.

He won a Nobel Prize for that work 20 years after he’d conducted the experiments.

The radiation at Three Mile Island was so very low, it’s probably compared to a CT scan, a minor thing.