What kind of a job has the media done in covering nuclear power?
Terrible. Terrible. The media is attracted to fear, the way a moth is attracted to a light. It becomes the story. And many reporters are in awe of the intellectual side of the anti-nuclear movement, and perhaps its political dimensions also. So they have trouble trusting facts. They have trouble trusting their own judgment. And they exaggerate these arguments against nuclear power, and they constantly “balance” the story by giving a lot of opinion, a lot of air time to the fear-generating ideas. And those catch hold in a large segment of the population, and the problem goes forward. I think the media really needs to be responsible for thinking about where the risks are, and how you figure that out. Q: So the media have an affirmative responsibility. A: Yeah. The media have an affirmative responsibility to count the bodies, to be able to accurately assess risks, and to portray that to the public. And they’ve done a terrible job of that with nuclear power. Q: If we just hear on the media
