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Going Nuclear

Author Tim Gregory
Narrator Tim Gregory
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 12 June 2025
Run Time 10 hours and 52 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Atomic and molecular physics, Chemistry, Climate change, Conservation of the environment, Economic growth, Energy efficiency, Energy resources, Environmental economics, Environmental management, Impact of science and technology on society, Nuclear physics, Popular science, Sustainability.

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What if climate change isn’t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

In this visionary book, Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero. He argues that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables, but in fully embracing another energy source that emits zero carbon dioxide: nuclear power.

Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables such as wind and solar are completely ‘green’, and debunks myths surrounding nuclear waste and radiation, demonstrating that nuclear power is not only reliable, safe and potent, but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy.

Going Nuclear calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty-first century's Apollo programme. By interweaving scientific optimism, myth-busting data, and ambitious policy ideas, Gregory illustrates the untapped and boundless potential of the atom beyond just clean energy: from advanced medicine and forensics to atomic gardening and space exploration.

This is a bold case for an alternative, sustainable and prosperous future: a world in which abundant energy is available to all.

'A thrilling book: vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring' STEVEN PINKER
'I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century' HANNAH RITCHIE

© Tim Gregory 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critics Review

Energy is necessary for everything we value in life, and the world will need gargantuan amounts of safe and reliable power to eliminate poverty, decarbonise the economy, and feed entirely new demands like artificial intelligence. Going Nuclear shows where this energy will come fromu2014and not as a last resort, but as the enabler of a new chapter in human progress. This is a thrilling book: vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring in its vision for the future.

Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and the author of ENLIGHTENMENT NOW

You will struggle to find anyone who brings nuclear power to life quite like Tim Gregory. You can feel the enthusiasm jump from the page. Thereu2019s lots to debate, but I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century.

author of NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

A passionate, accessible, and timely manifesto that reframes nuclear energy not as a necessary evil but as humanity's most promising tool for addressing climate change, energy poverty and a sustainable future

Founding Director of Terra Praxis

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