The world of theory and prayer and make no doubt that's exactly what some of the comments expressed in this thread are. If we don't pull our finger out what's to say other countries won't opt for Nuclear. This silly view of lets leave it in the ground is baseless, yes leave it there for others to mine and exploit whilst we stand there as a bunch of losers who missed the opportunity. We get health issues everytime we walk down a polluted street, or fill up our car at the garage by small dosages. If we can get to grips with nuclear as a longer term solution then we can surely begin to learn about the genie in the bottle from which we can proliferate knowledge in future for other applications too.

The human race has always had to be careful at each new technological step and sometimes learnt the hard way how to tame each new discovery so that man is the master. But we have nevertheless progressed and I cannot see how nuclear can be exempt from mainstay power generation. More fact less media speculation.