Nuclear power is seen by some as providing a secure source of energy with low greenhouse gas emissions. By others it is seen as dangerous, polluting and expensive. Based on his extensive experience of working on the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, Jim will discuss his research on wildlife populations in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the controversies surrounding the environmental impacts of ionising radiation.
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Brief Bio
Jim Smith is Professor of Environmental Science at Portsmouth University and an expert in modelling radioactive pollution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. He has co-ordinated four multi-national projects on the environmental consequences of the Chernobyl accident and regularly works in the Chernobyl 30-km Exclusion Zone. He is lead author of a major book on the accident: Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences and authored a key opinion piece in Nature in the wake of the Fukushima accident. He is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Expert Group on the Chernobyl Cooling Pond, and has taken part in an IAEA Expert Mission to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Jim is currently working on the potential re-use of radioactively “contaminated” lands in Ukraine.
You can hear him on More or Less on this edition of the World Service program.