Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory acquired by The Bodley Head

We’re thrilled to share that Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World by Dr Tim Gregory has been acquired by The Bodley Head (Penguin Random House), to be published June 2025. 

UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights were acquired by Alice Skinner, commissioning editor at The Bodley Head; North American rights were acquired by Claiborne Hancock, Publisher at Pegasus Books, for publication in August 2025.

The first book of nuclear environmentalism. A ground-breaking exploration of how to harness the untapped potential of nuclear power to build a sustainable and prosperous future for all.

What if climate change isn’t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

In this visionary book, Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero. He argues that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables, but in fully embracing another energy source that emits zero carbon dioxide: nuclear power.

Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables are completely ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’, and exposes the limitations of wind and solar power, highlighting their unreliability and hidden fossil fuel dependency. He debunks myths surrounding nuclear waste and radiation, demonstrating that nuclear power is not only efficient, safe, and potent, but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy.

Going Nuclear calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty-first century’s Apollo programme. By interweaving scientific optimism, myth-busting data, and ambitious policy ideas, Gregory illustrates the boundless potential of the atom beyond just clean energy: from advanced medicine and forensics to atomic gardening and space exploration.

This is a bold case for an alternative, sustainable and prosperous future: a world in which abundant energy is available to all.

Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory will be published in the UK by The Bodley Head 12 June 2025, and in North America by Pegasus Books on 5 August 2025.