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Letter: What we really fear from nuclear power

Published 16 September 2015

From Roy Harrison

Regardless of whether people make unreasonable associations between nuclear power and nuclear war, or harbour unreasonable fears of small doses of radiation, it is entirely reasonable for them to fear being made homeless.

Compare the area of the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl reactors in Ukraine with southern England. The risk of a disaster happening is, I hope, very, very small: but, when it happens, the consequences can be very, very severe.
East Wellow, Hampshire, UK

Issue no. 3039 published 19 September 2015

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