Mark Gilbert , Columnist

The World Must Avoid a Chernobyl Redux

Losing sleep over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine. Plus, private jets, mortgage pain and Taylor Swift.

August 30, 2022 at 1:33 PM UTC

By Mark Gilbert

Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. A former London bureau chief for Bloomberg News, he is author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.”

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In 1975, German synth pioneers Kraftwerk issued “Radio-Activity,” their fifth studio album. The title track had a cheerful, upbeat vocal, reflecting the optimism of the times that nuclear energy would provide the world with a cheap, reliable source of power.