What is the truth about the nuclear industry?
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About the video: ‘What is the truth about the nuclear industry?’
Hermann Scheer maintains that the reason the nuclear lobby exists today is that many pro-nuclear institutions are still in operation since having been set up in the 50s and 60s. There are no equivalent institutions representing the interests of renewable energy. This represents an advantage and helps perpetuate the myth that renewables cannot fully replace fossil or atomic energy.
Total views: 2,151
Filmed: Geneva, Switzerland on 21 May 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Hermann Scheer
A Member of the German Parliament since 1980, Dr Hermann Scheer is also a Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is President of the European Association for Renewable Energies, EUROSOLAR, and is General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. Time Magazine honored him with the title ‘Hero for the Green Century’ in 2002 and his books on the renewable energy transition include ‘The Solar Economy.”
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