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The Issue Fact or Fiction? |
As discussed in Chapter 13 on ethics, much of the opposition to nuclear energy is based on a false understanding of the facts. The anti-nuclear literature contains many erroneous and misleading allegations, collectively constituting a mythology. These are repeated endlessly, however often they are refuted, and are quoted uncritically by the media. Lewis Carroll knew of this phenomenon when he had the Bellman in The Hunting of the Snark say: "What I tell you three times is true." Some of the myths are collected here, together with the rebuttals under the following headings:
Wrong from A to Z - Acts of God and Zero Risk
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