Fallout

This tour de force by Fred Pearce takes the reader on a riveting journey through nuclear installations and radioactive landscapes around the world... The author's penetrating political eye and sober scientific gaze combine to reveal the many reasons, including toxic legacies of fear and deception, that it's time to call an end to the nuclear age. Read this book as if the future depended on it -- Betsy Hartmann
Fred Pearce takes you on an extraordinary first-person odyssey through the nuclear world we now live in, whether we like it or not. By turns thoughtful and hair-raising, this is a vivid, immediate travelogue of places most people dare not enter -- Walt Patterson
An extraordinary and necessary investigation of humanity's brief but alarming relationship with atomic power from Britain's distinguished/ veteran reporter. This is an illuminating tale of horrifying hubris, hidden catastrophes and indefensible experiments, which raises profound questions about our post-carbon energy future -- Gaia Vince
At once troubling, surprising and ruthlessly entertaining... yields some hideous examples of the industry's secrecy -- Julie McDowell * Economist *
Pearce lays bare the contradictions of our attitudes to nuclear technology... It's time we realised that fear is part of the fallout -- Caroline Crampton * Mail on Sunday *
This is an ambitious and highly readable study, based on boots-on-the-ground reporting in several countries, and clearly meticulous historical research. But the issues here are as much to do with the future: while nuclear energy might be falling out of favour, the world still can't seem to let go of nuclear weapons. We ignore past lessons at our peril, Pearce reminds us -- Catherine Healy * Sunday Business Post *