On Wednesday evening last week, Vincent De Rivaz, Chief Executive of EDF Energy, was interviewed on the UK’s Sky News channel. It was the same day as the UK government announcing its latest nuclear power strategy.

The interview is worth watching because of the evasions and contradictions in what Mr De Rivaz said that are common in nuclear power propaganda. Unfortunately they weren’t challenged by the interviewer so, in a short series, we're going to challenge them instead ( - part one is here, part two is here).

What about the highly dangerous waste produced by nuclear reactors? Here’s Mr De Rivaz’s entire response to the question, ‘there is the legacy of waste, isn’t there? That can be very dangerous for many years…’

The biggest challenge that we are facing all of us, we know it and we know it more and more, is climate change. We need to de-carbonise electricity and if we as a country to deliver what is our plan in 2050, 80% reduction of C02 emissions we need to de-carbonise electricity. So nuclear is part of the solution for sure.

Do you think he answered the question or singularly failed to address it? We know what we think. The biggest problem of nuclear power, it’s toxic, deadly legacy that will be with the human race for hundreds of thousands of years to come, is the waste it produces. And yet the CEO of EDF, lacked the courage to give a straight question on this vital issue with a straight answer.

According to writer H. Michael Sweeney there are 25 Rules of Disinformation. The number one rule? Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.