I’m sorry, but despite having cracking policies on a range of social and environmental issues, this from @TheGreenParty’s 2024 manifesto is truly lamentable. It repeats the same-old-same-old knee-jerk anti-nuclear canards that have traditionally been deployed by anti-nuclear organisations over decades.

So let’s take a deeper look 🧵 “Nuclear Energy… is unsafe”

Nope nope nopity nope – per terawatt generated, nuclear energy is amongst the very safest of forms of electricity generation. @OurWorldInData crunched the stats on this, and this article is definitely worth a read:
ourworldindata.org/safest-sources…

I wasn't really intending to announce the results of our most recent poll on nuclear until after the appropriate page on our website was uploaded, but I guess - needs-must and-all-that, so let me tell you a story - in numbers & graphics, but lets start at the beginning..🧵

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https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1597557986234630146

Between the 11th and the 15th of November 2022, @Ipsosuk conducted their 2nd online survey on our behalf, among a nationally representative quota sample of 3,236 participants aged 16‐75 in the UK, with the data weighted to a nationally representative profile...

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@dougthecoach 1) Nuclear engineers, scientists and advocates are bona fide environmentalists with a deep and abiding concern for the current state and future prospects of our planet @dougthecoach 2) Deploying Nuclear fission at scale is something we already know how to do, and every nuclear power plant that we don't build *now* only means we've got to build more CCS in the future, which is tech that we currently *don't* know how to do at scale