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Big Gav on May 27, 2008 - 8:06am

Sure - 36% will consider nuclear power and then say no once they've understood the drawbacks.

I imagine if you asked the population "have you ever considered killing yourself ?" you'd get an affirmative answer from quite a large number of people too..

Meanwhile, another small, green country is also looking to go 100% renewables and avoid nuclear power entirely as well:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/welsh-energy-drive...

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Big Gav on May 27, 2008 - 8:28am

Here's another beauty, describing the massive cleanup cost for one reactor in the UK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/25/pollution.conservation

Apparently waste from some of the used fuel rods was accidentally pumped into the sea during the 1980s - how careless of them !

I'm sure nothing like that could ever happen again if we went and built thousands of nuclear reactors - unlike UK sites full of plutonium back in the 1980s, we have tight security everywhere nowadays...

On the plus side, the locals are now getting into tidal power - an industry of the future.

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