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Originally Posted by steamship

Here's an interesting article also about the nuclear industry, and goes into how clean nuclear could really be. The link points to the Wayback Machine, as the link on the real site doesn't work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131005...m/busted1.html

Interesting. It wouldn't surprise me if much of that is true. I remember watching a documentary some years ago about the Windscale disaster, where ex-workers gave their accounts on what really happened. Apparently the British government put pressure on Windscale to dramatically increase production. This was not for the benefit of producing more clean energy but so that the waste/by-product of the nuclear reaction could be used to make atomic bombs. Warnings were ignored and production was eventually pushed beyond breaking point.