Let’s get a few things straight. Let’s address a few of the accusations and myths levelled at Greenpeace and our opposition to nuclear power.

Greenpeace does not campaign against nuclear power for fun or spite or just for the sake of it. It is a hard, frustrating battle against vastly better resourced opponents, some of whom aren’t averse to using dirty tricks.

Greenpeace does not want to make people poor or poorer.

Greenpeace does not want people to sit in the dark or the cold.

Greenpeace does not want us all to return to living in caves. (You wouldn’t believe how many times we hear that one.)

We are not anti-technology or anti-progress. We are the very opposite of those things. We look to the future. We embrace the exciting and rapidly growing renewable energy technologies, be they solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and the rest.

In the last few days, prominent environmental campaigners in the UK – previous opponents of nuclear power – have come out in support of it, arguing it is a vital tool in the fight against climate change.

The nuclear industry and its supporters will tell you nuclear power is clean, safe, cheap, reliable, secure and low-carbon. It is none of those things. If nuclear power is so wonderful, as is argued, why is the industry mired in corruption and cover-up?

Over the next few days we’ll be examining each of these claims in turn and showing why they are false and dangerous – that they are the real myths about nuclear power. We’ll explain why Greenpeace campaigns against nuclear power and why you should too.

(Part one of the series of blog posts can be found here.)