Nuclear power: The only option?
Chris Gwyntopher argues that nuclear power is unsustainable and a seed of war – not a viable alternative to oil
The people living near Fukushima in Japan have suffered disastrously from the false assumption that nuclear power stations are safe, as did the people living near Chernobyl. People have had to be evacuated from a twenty kilometre exclusion zone around the plant. France’s Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety recommended that a further 70,000 people outside the zone should be evacuated. The land is contaminated. Children’s school dinners have been found to contain dangerous levels of radioactive contamination.
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