Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Fukushima. The nuclear industry’s record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster a decade. While many countries are curtailing or abandoning their nuclear power programs in favor of renewables (after three General Electric–designed nuclear reactors exploded
in Japan), in the United States, powerful corporations and a compliant bureaucracy want us to believe that a “nuclear renaissance” is underway.

In Nuclear Roulette, award-winning journalist Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind this “renaissance.” Some critiques are familiar—nuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and too unstable. Others may surprise, such as the industry’s historic links to nuclear weapons, its impacts on indigenous
lands and lives, the unforeseen hazards of earthquakes and climate change, the costly challenge of dismantling plants, and the unsolved problem of storing radioactive waste.

Citing Nuclear Regulatory Commission records, Smith exposes the almost daily system failures that plague the US nuclear fleet and profiles five of the country’s worst reactors.

Nuclear Roulette also demonstrates how existing and potential energy solutions—combined with conservation programs, ef"ciency gains, and reduced consumption—can replace nuclear technology and usher in a “renewable renaissance.”

“Nuclear Roulette is a potent warning of the almost incomprehensible dangers that lie ahead, as well as the damage that has already contaminated portions of our beloved planet beyond repair.”
DR. HELEN CALDICOTT, author of Nuclear Madness

“Nuclear Roulette by Gar Smith is a timely and necessary book. It should be in the
hands of everyone who cares for life and freedom.”
DR. VANDANA SHIVA, founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology

“A thoroughly brilliant work. Gar Smith cuts through the lies of the nuclear promoters to document the deadliness of atomic power.”
KARL GROSSMAN, author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power