Lies, damned lies, and nuclear power statistics - how Moorside is so much less than it claims to be - The Ecologist

Lies, damned lies, and nuclear power statistics - how Moorside is so much less than it claims to be - The Ecologist: It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated, writes Neil Crumpton, by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick to understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even odder is how the mistake always seems to go the same way, to make nuclear look bigger than it really is, and renewables smaller. Welcome to the nuclear 'X factor'!