Mark wrote:
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,


Er No.

First of all, a patch of Suffolk and North Essex only.
Secondly TEMPORARILY evacuated in case. Not made uninhabitable.

A chernobyl event in the UK is a million times less likely than a
terrorist bomb killing thousands in London...In fact its almost
impossible to imagine how a PWR could go up in that way short of
deliberate sabotage, and even then it would be virtually impossible.

FAR easier to build a dirtyy bob if you could get access to teh
materials, but even that is amost ipossible

can you imagine the consequences of that on UK plc.

Don't be silly, besides the effect of NOT having nuclear on UK PLC is
basically poverty for everyone.

Seems a risk well worth taking


worth the risk, cant happen here, ?

Bsically, No.

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.


No. it couldn't. And it hasn't happened in Fukushima either.
Some shut down rods overheated and a bit of material escaped. That's
all. Short half-life stuff. will be goine in 6 weeks at most.


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

Well thats a start. Now educate yourself about radioactivity and
reactors, so you don't get any more nightmares.


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