Chernobyl disaster marked in Bridgwater (From Bridgwater Mercury)

if they really wanted to make a point they should have walked doen Chernobly high street now that i would have liked to have seen

That's going to achieve a lot isn't it. Yes they could have gone to the deserted streets of Pripyatt in the Ukraine. Apart from single mums and chavs it is probably not that much different from Bridgy

By coincidence, the Chernobyl disaster happened a few days after President Reagan had ordered the US attack on Gaddaffi"s compound to assassinate the Libyan leader. Now more attacks on Libya, another nuclear disaster in Japan.

Snow Eagle - good comment. I think it is more likely that the current nuclear disaster will drag on and on and on

How do they want power produced? More people have died in coal mines than have ever died in nuclear power accidents... people will no doubt perish servicing offshore wind farms, 1000's have died making and servicing hydroelectric dams, nothing is without risk.

I think it's funny that people still use Chernobyl as a reason to protest against Hinkley.
Nuclear power is by far the safest and CLEANEST form of generating enough energy for our increasing needs.
So there's a few tonnes of waste to get rid of, done properly (and it has been for the last god knows how long) it will serve us well for hundreds of years.
Vanman is spot on, there will always be casualties, but there will ALWAYS be improvements in safety and procedures and we always learn from other's mistakes.
Perhaps we should all go back to living in caves and hunting for food? no wait, the hippies don't want to harm the bunnie wabbits.....

Living in caves and hunting for food is a legacy we may well leave for future generations, How many millions may suffer because of nuclear waste left by thoughtless people of our age

How anyone can say nuclear power is clean is beyond me, the waste takes decades before it becomes safe!

They say protect the environment for future generations, if more nuclear power plants are built future generations will be avoiding nuclear waste all the time.

Also how can nuclear power be called "safe"? If Fukushima had been fired by, for example coal, they wouldn't have had to evacuate such a huge area because of radiation.

(Strangely the box below says "blow-high", how appropriate is that?)

the trouble is people dont want the eqiupment on there doorstep. they wanted to put in a wind farm everyone moaned about it then they wanted to put in some solar panels everyone moaned about that and now they want to do another station and everyone moans about this. where the hell do they think the electric will come from and not just that people moan that it costs a fortune so if we have to get it from another country cos no one wants it in this one it will put up prices even more, and as for safety this country is health and safety mad so the chances of anything happening is pretty slim i should think sure they would have sensors on everything the way this country is going about nuclear is that we will end up on a bike in our own homes generating our own electric infact not a bad idea would get some of the dole people of there backsides working

Quoting BlackKnight_UK
"Also how can nuclear power be called "safe"? If Fukushima had been fired by, for example coal, they wouldn't have had to evacuate such a huge area because of radiation."
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Coal will eventually run out, where-as nuclear is renewable. It also helps to remember that Fukushima would not have blown if there had not have been an unavoidable natural disaster. With an earthquake that bad, the fallout could have been much worse. An earthquake or sunami of such a scale would not happen at Hinkley, so drawing such comparisons does not really make a point.

Who knows if an earthquake or tsunami could or could not hit Hinkley Point! It is on or near a fault line, and we do get quakes here!

Regarding the comment about how clean nuclear power is. It would be more accurate to say - in the vast majority of cases, nuclear power is the cleanest form. Visit Pripyat or Fukushima and see why

How have all those complaining managed to send in there comments, electronic-mail, switch everything off and complain to yourselves, HYPOCRITES

The nuclear supporters that I know all have a vested interest of one sort or another and that I think says it all

FAO Shocking - Have you not heard of mobile phones? They run on batteries which don't have to be connected to the mains all the time!

Back to the problem of generating power for these thousands of new homes being built - why isn't every new house built with solar panels installed?
We keep hearing about people who have solar panels fitted that put spare power onto the national grid, if all the houses built in the past 10 years had solar panels would we need all these new power stations?

The EU need to make the suggestion that all new homes must be fitted with solar panels - then every will do it!

The EU says jump and the everyone says "how high"!

BlackKnight_UK wrote:
FAO Shocking - Have you not heard of mobile phones? They run on batteries which don't have to be connected to the mains all the time!

Back to the problem of generating power for these thousands of new homes being built - why isn't every new house built with solar panels installed?
We keep hearing about people who have solar panels fitted that put spare power onto the national grid, if all the houses built in the past 10 years had solar panels would we need all these new power stations?

The EU need to make the suggestion that all new homes must be fitted with solar panels - then every will do it!

The EU says jump and the everyone says "how high"!

Solar panels!
Paaaaahahahahahaa!!
Someone point out to "junior" here that we live in the UK, there's not nearly enough sunny weather to make solar panels worth the investment, let alone satisfy the power demands of today's greedy society.
To set a point straight, nuclear waste takes 100,000 years to become safe, not decades.
But then, if they bury it deep underground in granite caves, like the Swedes, problem solved!
Coal power stations, not only will run out very soon, but are more polluting than Nuclear stations.
For that point about Fukushima being better off as coal, is ridiculous, have you any idea how much power they consume in Japan? We have 10 Nuclear stations, they have 22, they also have numerous wind farms and 30-odd hydro electric power stations.
Come up with a better plan and people will listen. For now, until you can solve the Nuclear Fusion problem, STOP MOANING.

Makes an expensive solution to an alternative supply.

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Baaa! Baaa! what a load of sheep there are on here then, first of all I have to say I find the tone of these comments on the whole quite disgraceful, given that this was an event to commemorate the anniversary of an awful event that cost a lot of lives, lives that were extingusihed very painfully and slowly in most cases. Those of you who like to call nuclear safe - get a grip I reckon you'd be the first ones out if Hinkley were to blow despite your empty words.

How easy you sheep are to divide & rule the governing elite must really get a kick out of how easy you lot are to control, divide & rule "hippies" "dole scroungers" whatever! all tools of division, what we are beyond all the labels are human beings (well some of us, I'd have to say I doubt the humanity of a lot of the commentators on here!) but anyway...

Let's get a few things straight for the record:
1 nuclear is not a renewable technology, uranium is mined just the same as coal with the same attendent health detriment to the miners as coal (as well as an additional few).
2 the people that protested against a wind farm here - are the same people who want nuclear power, they were all worried about a few hypothetical birds flying into turbines but couldnt give a monkeys about the human cost of nuclear - quite absurd!
3 being opposed to nuclear power doesn't automatically entail a strong desire to live in a cave,
4 living in a concrete box spending your evenings glued to the drivel on TV is hardly much of an evolutionary step past cave-dwelling - in fact I know which I'd prefer...
5 all of these useless arguments in favour of nuclear power do not hold water, when you get down to it, they are all the propoganda generated by PR companies on behalf of the nuclear industry, the apologists such as Monbiot & Lynas are feathering their nests very well thanks to these people! Don't believe me? well take a look for yourself here, this is an article from 2006, you can soon see how well there plans & propoganda were going until Fukushima inconveniently exploded not once but multiple times! http://www.ethicalco
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The legitimate issue that many people have with nuclear is that just as with the banks the perceived benefits are privatised (eg profit) whilst the risks are socailised.

When you've met people from the contaminated territories of Chernobyl, Belarus etc make sure you look them in the eye and tell them how wonderful you think nuclear power is. In fact why dont some of you consider hosting children of Chernobyl when they come here for respite from the contamination? maybe you might learn something!

No technology is without risks, that goes without saying, but these risks have to be weighed up and when it comes down to it nuclear is far too risky, not just for events such as chernobyl and the on-going disaster in Japan but equally the insidous discharges that are made with the sanction of the state. It has long been known that there is no safe level of radiation and that it all carries an increased risk of cancer & mutations, the last 60 or so years have just been a game of smoke & mirrors to keep you the public fooled, wasn't to difficult either was it?

Wake up & smell the coffee, the germ line of all life on earth is being insdiously mutated by manmade radiation, you dont have to look very hard or very far for the eveidence? When was the last time someone in your family didn't die of cancer? or some other 'rare' disorder that is becoming increasingly common. Alzheimers? not just the disease of old age the establishment would like you to think, both Alzheimers and Parkinsons have been linked to Radon gas in the brain - concentrated in the brains protein causes one whilst concentrated in the brains lipids it casues the other. Whilst true that much of the research at the moment is trying to connect it with naturally occuring Radon you only have to look at how much the incidence of these diseases are on the increase to work out that the geology that leads to the formation of radon naturally isnt changing at that fast a rate. Radon is also produced as part of the radioactive decay sequence of technically enhanced uranium.

Decentralised energy is the real solution, but both government and the nuclear & fossil lobby are spendng an awful lot of money trying to persuade you that it cant be done! Of course it can, we have the technology and the resources to harness all of our energy needs from nature, just 6% of the incident solar radiation that falls on the earth is all that is required to meet annual global energy consumption right now, so dont believe their hype, check out Woking Borough Council a tory led council who decentralised in 2006 reducing their carbon emmissions by 80%. Check out zero carbon britain for info on how it can be done by 2030. Or check out Greenpeaces energy revolutions report for how we can be 97% renewable by 2050. The only thing missing is the political will and that won't happen until the silent majority no longer remain silent!

On October 3rd 2011 Hinkley point will be blockaded again. Have you got what it takes to join us on the line and to and stand up to the government and the nuclear industry and take responsiblity for our own energy by saying no to new nuclear? Information will become available about the blocakde when it is formally announced, keep your eye on Stop Hinkleys website for information. This Blockade, backed by CND and possibly some other NGOs will be a national blockade with people coming from all over the country. Watch this space....

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