If you share my view of the threat posed by nuclear power, and with one eye cast back at Chernobyl, then I suggest you have a look at the following, as it may be of interest to you
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Nuclear power has gotten a bad press from scare-mongerers and the like. It's not as bad as people make out. (She says, having done a fair amount of investigation and had two visits to Nuclear Power Stations to back her up)
Apart from Chernobyl (which was a tragedy, but also caused by cost-cutting, bad design and untrained workers), how many other majorly environment/local populace-affecting incidents have there been in well-run Power Plants? There are dozens of meters of concrete that shield the core and its rods from anything else, so any fire would have it's work cut out for it getting through. And the rods work in water. Lots of it.
And yes, there is a problem with storing the remaining fuel once it's been used as it has a very long half-life. But again, the danger from this stuff is not as bad as scare-mongerers would have you believe.
When you power a nuclear station, you don't have to burn fossil fuels (meaning no carbon emissions). So the only pollution you cause (other than disposing/storing the rods afterwards) is heat polution in the water that comes back out of the plant into the river that feeds it. Which can be remedied quite easily.
Apart from Chernobyl (which was a tragedy, but also caused by cost-cutting, bad design and untrained workers), how many other majorly environment/local populace-affecting incidents have there been in well-run Power Plants? There are dozens of meters of concrete that shield the core and its rods from anything else, so any fire would have it's work cut out for it getting through. And the rods work in water. Lots of it.
And yes, there is a problem with storing the remaining fuel once it's been used as it has a very long half-life. But again, the danger from this stuff is not as bad as scare-mongerers would have you believe.
When you power a nuclear station, you don't have to burn fossil fuels (meaning no carbon emissions). So the only pollution you cause (other than disposing/storing the rods afterwards) is heat polution in the water that comes back out of the plant into the river that feeds it. Which can be remedied quite easily.
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