News stories by Dietrich Fischer

Why do we have nuclear power despite all of its dangers for current and future generations? There is a simple reason. Nuclear power plants are highly profitable for a few, at the expense of other people's safety. Electricity from a nuclear power station can be cut off if people do not pay their bills, but energy from the sun collected on house roofs cannot be cut off. It makes people independent. The nuclear lobby does not want that, writes Dietrich Fischer, Academic Director of the World Peace Academy,Director of the TRANSCEND University Press, author of "Nonmilitary Aspects of Security" and "Preventing War in the Nuclear Age."