Benjamin K Sovacool is perfectly entitled to his views but he is working in the law department of Vermont and has done a fair degree of legal advocacy against nuclear power he is a lawyer and clearly anti nuclear at that having spent his time in India lawyering it up against nuclear power and writing an anti nuclear book with many unsubstantiated claims contained within such as selectively quoting what MIT actually said Science and Technology Studies is a social science not a hard science Fundamentally I ask what are his science qualifications that would lead anyone to assume his opinion matters in respect to the field of Safety engineering or even nuclear engineering Safety code nuclear reactor that warranted the previous editors pushing him into the lede of a safety article As I ve said I don t mind leaving him in the lede of the article as it stands now as the selective quoting that he chose to reiterate in his anti nuclear book naturally segues into what the MIT actually said and a discussion on safety by actual qualified hard scientists in the field MIT who do have a modicum of authority to discuss nuclear safety The article IMHO is more than fair at including the two anti nuclear advocates statements who you know don t have any nuclear engineering qualifications at all