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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
I've heard the story of the Radium Girls.
Unbelievably shocking treatment.
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Yes.. shocking. Because people will almost always put short-time profit before everything else... Someone on that blog mentioned asbestos - same story, just different stuff.
As far as nuclear power is concerned, I have no problems with that.
I lived for almost 10 years very close to one (50km or so) , the only effect we saw was a slightly risen temperature of the river ( water from river was used for cooling).
This plant is still operating, almost 30 years so far, and only once there was a small accident involving leakage of water from primary circuit (but no radiation). Actually, the real scare for us was Chernobyl incident, and it was thousands of km away..
This technology (not the one used in Chernobyl) is very mature and safe.. it also creates jobs (highly skilled, though) and it is cheap in the long run.
Australia has enormous deposits of uranium.. and a lots of deserts that could be used to store waste, and even employ locals, after proper training.. I am sure this will happen sooner or later.