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garyp on June 3, 2009 - 1:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The legacy of the green's malign influence on public policy and their unthinking demonising of nuclear power for over 25 years will be millions of deaths.

You can't put a stop to the one viable future energy source without consequences and without a plan. Nuclear power is no more inherently dangerous than a coal power station - keep politicians and accountants away and they can be safe. What's not safe is to claim to be looking at the big picture and avoid questioning what can really replace fossil fuels. Handwaving statements as to what renewables can deliver in fairyland don't cut it in the real world.

We needed an ongoing, continuous, programme of nuclear development and build out. Instead we have squandered the one real world successor to fossil fuels, and with it best chance of avoiding the abyss.

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PhilR on June 3, 2009 - 2:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

You can't put a stop to the one viable future energy source without consequences and without a plan. Nuclear power is no more inherently dangerous than a coal power station - keep politicians and accountants away and they can be safe

Thanks for the laugh. Evidence, please, of the former, and proof that the latter is possible, if you will.

(The points I'm talking about are in bold.)

Phil

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