On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:15:17 +0100, Roger Chapman
wrote:

So you keep on saying but it isn't me you need to convince.


I don't need to convince anyone. I just don't like it when ignorant
people propagate lies.

Unfortunately, ignorant people don't know any better.

It's exactly the same with climate change. With both climate change
and nuclear power, people are polarised into believers and
non-believers whose ignorant prejudices are fed by lies and propaganda
from both sides.

Having worked in nuclear power for almost 15 years way back when, and
having reached senior management level, I am particularly sad that, in
2010, the basic untruths of the 1950s and 1960s keep reappearing,
thanks to vested interests who, on the one hand, stand to make
billions of pounds out of nuclear power, or on the other hand, are
misguided environmentalists who fail to realise that a non-nuclear
future would be particularly bleak.

In a propaganda war such as this, truth is the first casualty. I am
merely trying to point out the truth, which unfortunately seems
equally unpalatable to the quasi-religious zealots on both sides.

Eventually, we will build new nuclear stations, but they will need a
hefty subsidy. Alas, there is no other way they will happen.

And that is my last word on the subject for now. ;-)