> Nuclear power > I didn’t mention nuclear because I don’t know much about it. > See Stewart Brand’s book Whole Earth Discipline for an optimistic > tak

> Nuclear power > I didn’t mention nuclear because I don’t know much about it. > See Stewart Brand’s book Whole Earth Discipline for an optimistic > take from a recent convert. (Ironically published five months > before Fukushima, but his points still stand.) I haven't read the book (Whole Earth Discipline), but it seems to have been published at least a year and a half before the Tōhoku earthquake. In any case, advocating nuclear power before an earthquake or tsunami would only be ironic if the author were advocating building new reactors near coastlines or fault lines and allowing them to lapse on safety mechanisms. The alternative would be to argue for the whole city of Tokyo to drastically alter its energy profile so that an entire nuclear reactor weren't needed, in addition to other plants, to power the city.