Can we trust nuclear power again? - podcast

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jul/09/can-we-trust-nuclear-power-again-podcast

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Dr Tim Gregory argues that nuclear power is safe, relatively cheap and the only realistic route to achieving net zero targets

Dr Tim Gregory is a nuclear evangelist. A chemist who works in the labs of Sellafield, Britain’s oldest nuclear site, he argues that embracing nuclear energy is the only way to achieve net zero.

He tells Helen Pidd it is an energy source long misunderstood – unfairly tainted by the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters. It is a safe technology, he says, and despite the billions it costs to build nuclear plants, it represents good value for money.

Across the world – from the UK and Denmark to Italy and the US – countries seem willing to look at nuclear again. So can we trust it?