Comment on from "Demon haunted world" (1996)
d00ery@lemmy.world 8 months agoI didn’t know about the Windscale fire or cover up. Although the production of plutonium is mentioned in the Wikipedia article I linked.
The primary purpose of both plants was to produce weapons-grade plutonium for the UK’s nuclear weapons programme, but they also generated electrical power for the National Grid.
I don’t feel any safer with the French doing it as they have also had accidents. (Understandable with new technology) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
As for the China, would we even know if they’d had accidents …
General_Effort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Actually yes, because radioactive leaks are very detectable.
I was just teasing, of course. IDK if the other players were luckier or saner. The Windscale piles were definitely quite insane, though.