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For more than 60 years it has been accepted that radiation, that is nuclear radiation, is quite exceptionally dangerous. In this discussion this question is re-examined and the answer is shown to be rather unexpected. Wade Allison\s message is simple - we\ve got it wrong about nuclear power. In the light of such understanding, nuclear technology may be viewed differently – indeed welcomed and used carefully to benefit the environment for the future, without fear or excessive cost.

Professor Allison is a nuclear and medical physicist at the University of Oxford where he has studied and taught for over 40 years. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge before beginning a career in particle physics, studying in particular the electromagnetic field of relativistic particles and its use in experimental detectors at CERN and elsewhere.