"Nuclear is the cleanest source of energy by far," says environmental policy expert, Michael Shellenberger. "It's because it produces so efficiently, it produces such large quantities of electricity on small amounts of land - tiny quantities of uranium can produce all the energy I need in my entire life," he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
"And the mining is the most lucrative, it's the safest, it's the best on the environment because you don't need so much uranium to produce so much electricity. "It has the best waste management - solar produces 300 times more waste than nuclear plants." Mr Shellenberger said if climate change proponents really believed in their cause they would be "advocating nuclear" and if not - then perhaps their drive is "not about climate".
(Also see: "Beyond Hydrocarbons ... The Rest of the Story" (here).]