Huge wrote:

On 2011-03-25, Alan wrote:

Everything the "industry" said about the world wide safety of nuclear
installations is now starting to look like a pack of lies.

Number of people killed by tsunami; 10,000+
Number of people killed by Fukushima reactor; 0



Number of people killed by a Nuclear power station going tits up in a big
way is as you say almost irrelevant compared with, say the number of people
killed on the roads every year
But.
There is still a 20+mile exclusion zone around Chernobyl so if the same
thing was to happen at Dungeness an area from Brighton to Folkstone and
reaching as far as SE London if the wind was in the wrong direction would be
made uninhabitable, can you imagine the consequences of that on UK plc.
worth the risk, cant happen here, ?
That's what they thought in Fukushima, two weeks now and it's still a long
way from being safe, it could still go badly tits up.

But having said all that i cant see any alternative to Nuclear power for
elec generation in the foreseeable future.

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