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[AtW]

Distribution of electricity is not free - for example around (AFAIK) 1/3rd of power is lost due to National Grid: so if powerplants were closer to the end users, then less (30%!) energy would need to be generated.

[FrankScribe]

Yes I know but I was thinking in terms of a wider solution - after all take the US out of the picture and we must have a 50% gain in available power.

BTW should have said all of my favourite Brasilians.

[Jabberwocky]

Retard - when Chernobyl had issues (and it was not a full blown explosion) then thousands miles away people had increase in cancer and other illnesses. If something happens with reactor in Scotland then everyone might as well leave this island for a thousand years or so.

Look my little Russian bunny rabbit, that was Soviet technology of the cold war era. British technology is far safer. And anyway oil and coal has caused many more deaths through war and pollution than civil nuclear power. We are bathed in radiation from the sun every day and it causes cancer too.

[TheMonkey]

We all need radiant energy collectors.

Only problem is that only few have been constructed and the people who construct them usually go missing.

That is all.

[AtW]

British technology is far safer.

Indeed. I remember reading in papers that one private contractor for British nuclear stations forgot to use lead screen in radioactive container and it was beaming literally death ray while it was driven for few hundred miles: it was pure luck that noone got covered by that small but deadly ray. Perhaps someone did - we will know in some years.

[bogeyman]

Indeed. I remember reading in papers that one private contractor for British nuclear stations forgot to use lead screen in radioactive container and it was beaming literally death ray while it was driven for few hundred miles: it was pure luck that noone got covered by that small but deadly ray. Perhaps someone did - we will know in some years.

Utter nonsense

What sort of radioactive material was in that container that could emit this lethal death ray?

If it was that radioactive, a bit of lead shielding isn't going to make that much difference.

Clearly you don't know anything about nuclear physics (either) !

[CaribbeanPirate]

Wasn't there a program on the BBC recently claiming that the radiation damage from Chernobyl was an exaggeration?

Burning coal dumps huge amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, far more than any of the nuclear escapades of the last century.

[AtW]

Wasn't there a program on the BBC recently claiming that the radiation damage from Chernobyl was an exaggeration?

Tell this to families in Belorussia and Ukraine who had freaks born.

[Jabberwocky]

Is that where your parents are from ?

[CaribbeanPirate]

Tell this to families in Belorussia and Ukraine who had freaks born.

This was the point of the story - there wasn't any freaks.