@Mr Bigstuff wrote:
Tony Blair’s been saying we need more nuclear power stations and he kept saying that they were safe. Somehow he forgot to mention the 57 safety scares that have happened in the last decade. These included staff being contaminated, radiation spillages and cracks in the safety casing of a reactor. 11 of the cases were classed as serious. I wonder if the people living near the power plants were ever informed?
57 ‘incidents’ in 10 years is a damn good safety record!
I believe nuclear energy is the way forward, sadly in the nuclear age, we’re still running on steam. A nuclear power station is merely a vast and very expensive kettle.
We need to be using the technology in order to understand it better, and unfortunately accidents will happen.