Mr. Gabriel is just completely out of touch them. No surprise there. All credible studies no nuclear life-cycle emissions puts it at a tiny fraction of coal plants, at about the same level as wind power and below solar power.

A quick googling gives:

And energy issues are not that complicated, really. It's just common sense and lots of little details. As it is fundamentally based on nature and material flows it's inherently more simple than some of the absurdly complex things things humans have invented, like the capitalist economy.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.