The Nuclear Illusion

Nuclear power is often presented as unavoidable. Too important to question. Too urgent to refuse.

The Nuclear Illusion examines nuclear energy not as a technical solution, but as a system of governance. Across cost, safety, waste, security, and institutional design, it shows how nuclear power repeatedly requires permanent exceptions to ordinary democratic rules: capped liability, sustained subsidy, enduring surveillance, and obligations imposed far beyond political time horizons.

Rather than ...