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David Pearce, Professor of Political Economy, University of Aberdeen and Director of the Windscale Assessment and Review Project, argues that any future nuclear inquiry must deal effectively with the differing values adopted by the nuclear industry and its objectors. The industry must drop its haughty assumption that opposition to it is ‘irrational’.