Nuke Accident Would Dwarf Oil Spill

It is worth pointing out, to advocates of nuclear power, that uranium is a scarce resource - more so than easily obtainable 'conventional' oil has become (hence deep sea drilling and the Gulf disaster).



Uranium is also toxic to mine and tailings dumps are problems in themselves, see http://www.sea-us.org.au/roxby/roxby.html



Nuclear power is not an option (I am just adding to the article).



In addition I know what radiation sickness is, albeit that mine came from radiation-therapy to cure a cancer and numerous previous X-rays, so did not involve all the toxic stuff from fall-out.



But it took over five years for my immune system to recover and for many strange side-effects to subside, like sudden out-breaks of ulcers and odd results from blood tests.



Believe me: even beneficial radiation is nasty, much like chemo-therapy.
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