Safer Than Wind: Radiation Expert Seeks to Ease Fears About Nuclear Health Risks

‘Australia is not known for its huge tsunamis. It is geologically stable, in most respects,’ Associate Professor Tony Hooker said.

A radioactivity sign outside the fourth nuclear reactor at the former Chernobyl Nuclear power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, is pictured on April 4, 2011. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images

One of the biggest concerns about nuclear energy has been a widespread fear that it poses significant health risks to the population at large, but Associate Professor Tony Hooker thinks otherwise.

Mr. Hooker is the Director of the Centre for Radiation Research, Education and Innovation at the University of Adelaide, and he believes radioactive energy is safer than wind and on par with solar.