by Linda Pentz Gunter
Pluto Press
3/20/2026, paperback
SKU: 9780745352107
There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis--but that hasn't stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. Unsurprisingly, politicians and the media have been easily swayed. After all, the pro-nuclear PR campaign is richly funded and has an army of lobbyists sowing myths, ultimately influencing public opinion.
No To Nuclear calls the industry's bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous, and too connected to the nuclear weapons complex, to serve as a rational energy choice. The book also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and marginalized communities, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector, and questions whether the way we devalue our environment is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.
Reviews:
"Linda Pentz Gunter methodically exposes, with powerful evidence, how nuclear power is unneeded, uneconomic, uninsurable, unevacuable, unsafe, and dilatorily unreliable, while being a catastrophic sabotage target. Citizens everywhere, do not let the media ignore this book! Rally around its concise readability and ready-made recommendations" -- Ralph Nader, lawyer and co-author of The Menace of Atomic Energy
"An excellent take down of the many talking points employed by nuclear power advocates. Linda Pentz Gunter has stepped up to the task of writing this necessary book admirably, offering us a wide ranging set of arguments, based on extensive research and delivered with style and humour" -- M.V. Ramana, author of Nuclear is Not the Solution
About the Author:
Linda Pentz Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its Executive Director. She also launched and writes for her organization's news platform, Beyond Nuclear International. A former journalist with Reuters, she currently writes for the Morning Star (UK) and Ralph Nader's Capitol Hill Citizen.