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The 2nd Atomic Age

The David McWilliams Podcast

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We're Talking About Everything, Every Option

We need to reassess our whole energy generation in this country, and across europe. An anti nuclear has been sort of a article of faith of the green movement almost since then. It's now increasingly evident that the atomic age that should have been the second half of the twentieth century, wasn't. And somewhere in the 19 seventies, the nuclear industry ran into the sand. The government was already looking into carbon capture and storage options. But with the range of technologies permitted in ireland, that's not really technically possible. So clearly, we need to look into more options. We're going to make the case that we should look into nuclar powerers as an option.

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