Nuclear facts, not fiction are needed here

Listen up South Africa. Britain is planning to build a whole raft of new nuclear power plants. France already gets 80 per cent of its electricity from nuclear plants ( and even has enough to export to Germany). The so called Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown was nothing of the sort. Nobody died. None of the neighbours developed cancers attributable to the very small leak and despite all the hype about the China Syndrome ( the scare story of the day was that the core of the reactor would burrow through the earth all the way to China) the Three Mile Island plant is still there providing electricity. Yes, Chernobyl was a disaster. Yes, people died. Those who died were the brave firemen and others who capped the reactor with concrete -- not the neighbours, near or far. The area around Chernobyl was evacuated but, hey, guess what? Animals returned and are happily grazing and living without glowing in the dark or producing offspring with three heads. Chernobyl was a Russian-designed and built plant, erected during the Soviet era and its main purpose was to provide fuel for bombs -- with electricity and safety a very secondary consideration. No one would have dared build one like it in the West. So, now you know enough to judge the hysterical noises now coming from Earthlife Africa in an attempt to block Escom's plans to build new nuclear plants in South Africa. There will be more green lies and exaggerations. Keep cool and remember, they are trying to scare you.