Well we have a fair bit of air travel coming up,I know who I wont be using,and will tell relatives who regularly come to vist not to use them either.....greedy *******!!!!

Well, we already live about 5km from the research reactor here & in the UK I lived in two different places both less than 10km from research reactors. I would probably be ok with it as me & OH could work there & have a short commute, provided there were decent schools, hospitals, etc also there! They were going to build one in Jervis Bay - they got as far as the concrete footings that are still there. I would live there if we had jobs there as it is lovely there (except nearest big town is Nowra....)

I have family and several friends in South Africa who live less than 10k from twin reacters and it's something that no-one really seemed to think much about. Until now.

Do you know where this happened?

The popular images, derived from the newsreels of the day, are of churns being upended over drains after concern about the presence of iodine131 led to a six-week ban on milk from farms within a 200-mile radius of the reactor. But the fallout contained longer-lasting poisons, which have since been blamed for hundreds of cancers.

Here is the full article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2591605.ece

I was within 100 miles of this incident.

There are even more analogies between coal and nuclear power when you start looking at the coal equivalents of nuclear fallout.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0326201751.htm

If coal mining had only started in the last 50 years it would probably have been deemed too dangerous to continue.

Bloody big chunk of the population of the UK was probably within 100 miles.

Hopeful with reservation.

According to the Daily Mail, a radioactive plume will arrive in Britain in a fortnight. Daily Mail, must be correct, right?

Let's hope not.

Indeed, although strangely enough their science coverage isn't always as shockingly innacurate as the rest of the paper.

Factually correct possibly, in the same way that tonight's gaseous output of my ringpiece will influence the climate of the Brazillian rain forest at some point in the future.

strawman...I don't think anyone would be happy about any power plant or industrial complex being built in their back garden.

My guess is that it happened on the site of a new and exciting Cumbrian housing estate.

There's a few above that have said they would.

I was just wondering.

And stop calling me strawman, the name's maverick

Here's an interesting article about thorium:

"Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium

If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...r-thorium.html