In April 2007 , Dan Becker , Director of Global Warming for the Sierra Club , declared , " Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack . " James Lovelock criticizes holders of such a view : " Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction , the Green lobbies and the media . " " . . . I am a Green and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy . " George Monbiot , an English writer known for his environmental and political activism , once expressed deep antipathy to the nuclear industry . He finally rejected his later neutral position regarding nuclear power in March 2011 . Although he " still loathe s the liars who run the nuclear industry " , Monbiot now advocates its use , having been convinced of its relative safety by what he considers the limited effects of the 2011 Japan tsunami on nuclear reactors in the region . Subsequently , he has harshly condemned the anti-nuclear movement , writing that it " has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health ... made claims ungrounded in science , unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong . " He singled out Helen Caldicott for , he wrote , making unsourced and inaccurate claims , dismissing contrary evidence as part of a cover-up , and overstating the death toll from the Chernobyl disaster by a factor of more than 140
2011 Japan tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Anti-nuclear movement