The western media has failed to recognise the importance of Russia’s first floating nuclear power station and has repeated inflammatory and misleading language from environmental groups that has led to breathless reporting on the launch of a “nuclear Titanic” and “Chernobyl on ice,” an article by an energy expert on the Project Syndicate website said.Samuele Furfari, a professor of the geopolitics of energy at Université libre de Bruxelles and author of ‘The Changing World of Energy and the Geopolitical Challenges’, said in the article that anti-nuclear sentiment over empirical fact has been a consistent feature of Europe’s nuclear-power debate since the 1980s. He said the alarmist rhetoric surrounding today’s emerging nuclear technology is yet another example of this contradictory and self-defeating approach.