Increasing public acceptance of the urgency of climate change is refocusing the nuclear debate. As Ontario debates changes to its Mining Act, here are two, well-informed, passionate views on the topic. Against uranium mining, and everything associated with it, are two Ontario doctors, Dr. Cathy Vakil and Dr. Linda Harvey. Human Health Implications of Uranium Mining and Nuclear Pow is their paper on the health effects of the nuclear industry. Arguing for nuclear power is lifelong environmentalist, Stewart Brand, editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and one of the early drivers of California’s environmental and clean air initiatives. In a world with no risk-free choices, both are well worth listening to, but Brand seems to have a better grasp of the big picture.