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Originally Posted by MargaretR
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There are more pleasant ways of dying 
I wonder if Andrew has changed his opinion in the light of current events.
Incidentally there is no comfort in thinking 'it couldn't happen here'.
I recall the Windscale (Sellafield) fire in the late 50s, and today there was a scale 3 earthquake in northern France. The channel coast is where France has most of its nuclear power stations.
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The strongest recorded earthquake in the UK was a 6.1 scale quake in 1931 in the North Sea but it did very little damage and is regarded as an extremely rare occurrence for the area as we are sat in a region of low seismic activity.
In the absence of cold fusion reactors I'm afraid that the nuclear option remains the most clean and efficient for us in the future. Photovoltaic panels and miniature wind turbines on top of every house in the country might be a better way but I can't see it happening anytime soon.