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What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

The problem of radioactive waste remains unsolved. All reactors create deadly by-products that must be isolated for centuries. These wastes will have to be moved throughout the nation on trucks and trains, which could themselves have accidents and become terror and proliferation targets. There is no storage site even planned for the wastes that would come from new reactors. The controversial dump under construction at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which may never open, cannot handle even the waste from reactors already in existence. sign the petition

[BBC 5/10/2007] Fifty years ago, on the night of 10 October 1957, Britain was on the brink of an unprecedented nuclear tragedy.

A fire ripped through the radioactive materials in the core of Windscale, Britain’s first nuclear reactor.

Tom Tuohy, the deputy general manager at the site, led the team faced with dealing with a nightmare no-one had thought possible.

“Mankind had never faced a situation like this; there’s no-one to give you any advice,” he said. more.