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Pascal Monett Silver badge
WTF?

That is a novel stance

Interesting. When anything happens that is described with the word "nuclear" in it, all of Greenpeace goes ballistic, railway transport gets shut down in Germany due to greeny protesters and Facebook/Twitter drown in anti-nuclear prose.

If, Heaven forbid, an actual accident takes place then you have literally months of people sagely telling you that we absolutely have to shut down those nuclear plants and stop irradiating the planet willy-nilly, opinion transmitted by all media known to Mankind and put on loop on every newscast for weeks.

And that despite the fact that, as you yourself acknowledge, the nuclear industry is one of the most heavily safety-regulated.

Then, apparently, you put on your tinfoil hat and go into full-out conspiracy mode to say that it's all a ploy to keep Geldoff from powering Africa.

Hats off to you, sir. That is by far the most wacky consideration I have read on these pages in a long time.

Yeah, let's make nuclear safety less stringent. Let's have nuclear power stations institute a regular radiation release schedule, to balance reactor pressure or something like that. And let's have illegal spent uranium dumping sites while we're at it.

All that would certainly allow Geldoff to power Africa. I'd bet he'd rather live there at that point as well.

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