Weatherlawyer wrote:
Something I was studiously avoiding was the windmill thread however I
had to say something in response to this:

Only when you have a really STUNNING case on paper - as nuclear
power was in the 50's -

In Britain the cost of nuclear research cost the general public a
secret amount of money, so secret that even cabinet members were
unaware of the expense.

(It was such a vast amount that the economy, already devastated by WW
2, took much longer to recover than the rest of western Europe where
the Nazis had stripped it of all they could loot and eradicated vast
sections of the population either in death camps and forced labour, or
to other casualties of war.)

The cost effect was to cripple not only Britain in the 50's but have
damaging long term effects as the shoddy, unstable reactors were kept
in production and their faults kept secret up to today.

More overt were the ways waste was disposed of. Dumping it untreated
in 45 gallon drums of the sort heros in police chases inadvertantly
crash into half way through a drive through factory in whatever Bond
type film.
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Interesting opinions (not taking the mick BTW).