This quick TED talk sums up the basic issues around the big buck energy question right now- do we go nuclear or solely rely on a new generation of renewable energy sources in the UK?
One obstacle that this debate only briefly mentions is the public fear of proximity to a nuclear power plant.
This next clip from a Horizon documentary "Nuclear Nightmares" 2006 almost insanely feels like it should calm public fears to some extent; it implies that only 56 deaths can be directly attributed to the Chernobyl disaster. Does this imply that even a serious accident in a nuclear reactor would not seriously affect the surrounding population? If so, the unlikely event of an incident would have an even smaller impact in comparison with the suffering that the world's population is about to suffer from changing climates.
