Nuclear power?

[winebeforepearls]

The French are keen to help us build third-generation nuclear power stations. With global warming and the insecurity of Russian and mid-east oil, should we just get on with it? Or do you think they are too dangerous?

(That's the power stations, not the French )

radiation (and other chemicals) accumulate in breastmilk and can therefore compound the problem of us being at the top of the food chain. the effects of chenobyl will be felt for a longtime yet.

a good book on chemical accumulation in breastmilk (and therefore the human race) :

www.amazon.co.uk/Having-Faith-Sandra-Steingraber/dp/0738204676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=book s&qid=1206722086&sr=8-1

I can link to more papers if you'd like - and I have been to Belarus and talked with people who actually live, and practice medicine there. Their real problem is the huge levels of industrial pollution in their country, coupled with extreme poverty somewhere that gets very,very cold.

We do know from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki data that there wasn't an increase in birth defects in the children of children who were exposed.

I don't want to appear that I don't care - my whole working life has been devoted to protecting people from radiation, and to curing people with cancer using radiation, so I really do in a very personal way. But I do care as well about good science, and I know that the after effects are studied very carefully and widely by people who have no agenda to cover anything up.

i still wouldn't want a nuclear power plant near where i live. the implications are just too huge.

we need to find an alternative or it's light-out across the country.

Well, OK, I'll have one near me

If I get to choose the colour - none of your industrial white or grey thank you.

But Casbie, if you live near Plymouth or Glasgow, there are reactors there. I live near Dartmoor when I'm in the UK, and there's loads of radiation there naturally, and people don't bat an eyelid at that.

There are no viable alternatives to nuclear power, and those alternatives that might work will take too long to develop. I'd rather live near a nuclear power station than a coal fired one tbh.

And, of course, supporting a decision to build more nuclear plants now does signal an opposition to developing other forms of power generation. We should of course do both. We should build nuclear now and we should also keep looking for other technologies to develop.

And, of course, supporting a decision to build more nuclear plants now does not signal an opposition to developing other forms of power generation. We should of course do both. We should build nuclear now and we should also keep looking for other technologies to develop.

no nuclear in cornwall as far as i know!

Plenty of Radon in the granite though!

why compound it with a nuclear plant?

then we'll all be glow-in-the-dark!