No to Nuclear - Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress Provokes

There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis-but that hasn't stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. The public, politicians and the media have been easily swayed.

This should come as no surprise. After all, the pro-nuclear PR campaign is richly funded and has an army of lobbyists sowing myths while the industry reaps the rewards of taxpayer-funded subsidies.

No To Nuclear calls the industry's bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex, to serve as a rational energy choice.

The book also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of colour, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector, and questions whether the way we devalue nature and the environment is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.

List of contents

Preface: A Land of Ghosts

Introduction

1. The Beginning of the Story

2. Nuclear Injustice

3. Animals and Ecosystems

4. The False Promise of Nuclear Power

5. Nuclear Power, War and Space

6. Nuclear Weapons

7. The Attack on Integrity

8. The End of the Story?

9. Is It Too Late for Renewable Energy?

Conclusion

Appendix: Ten Reasons to Reject Nuclear Power

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

About the author

Linda Pentz Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its international specialist. Previously, she was a journalist at USA Network, Reuters, and The Times. She launched, and writes for Beyond Nuclear's online magazine, Beyond Nuclear International.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Pentz Gunter
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.03.2026
• EAN: 9780745352107
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-5210-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear power & engineering, Nuclear issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Pollution and threats to the environment