On 17/02/2021 14:49, jon wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:19:59 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

On 16 Feb 2021 at 20:30:01 GMT, T r o l l wrote:

On 16 Feb 2021 19:31:54 GMT, Tim Streater
wrote:

On 16 Feb 2021 at 12:25:38 GMT, Andrew

wrote:

On 15/02/2021 21:47, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 12/02/2021 23:55, Fredxx wrote:
On 12/02/2021 22:14, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:50:05 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
Wind turbine - ****ing noisy if you're near it, doesn't
produce much and often none at all.

See above re storage and don't melt down and pollute the
surrounding environment for thousands of years:

They do fail in spectacular ways. Only if you place large nukes
near oceans with a history of tsunamis or known safety flaws.

Even then if you check the stats the death toll from radiation
from Fukushima was...

One.

Yes, a single person. And he's only a probable.

Quite a lot of people died running away from it though.

Andy

Nobody was killed as a direct result of atmospheric testing of
nuclear weapons in the 50's and 60's but there is an identifyable
spike in the incidence in certain diseases, like childhood leukaemia
following those tests.

What has this to do with anything?

Oh dear ... these left brainers ... ;-(

Considering the bigger picture, it's not just the deaths / directly
related to an incident that need to be considered, it's all the
negative (and often unrecorded) events that come out of it.

So a plant blows up and a local shop that used to supply food to the
workers goes out of business and the owner also loses his accommodation
and eventually dies whilst homeless.

Only one (Chernobyl) can be said to have "blown up", and the operators
had to work quite hard to get it to a state where it was unstable enough
for that to happen (as can be seen by reading about it). You're just
employing the usual scare-mongering techniques, saying "So a plant blows
up ..." as if this is a common occurrence.

I have a 1978 report on the RBMK-1000 reactor, conducted by the company I
was working for at the time and it's conclusion is 'an accident waiting to
happen' (obviously not in those words)

Indeed. Which is why they would never have been licensed for use in the
West.