• d00ery@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I didn’t know about the Windscale fire or cover up. Although the production of plutonium is mentioned in the Wikipedia article I linked.

    The primary purpose of both plants was to produce weapons-grade plutonium for the UK’s nuclear weapons programme, but they also generated electrical power for the National Grid.

    I don’t feel any safer with the French doing it as they have also had accidents. (Understandable with new technology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

    As for China, would we even know if they’d had accidents …

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      9 months ago

      would we even know if they’d had accidents

      Actually yes, because radioactive leaks are very detectable.

      I was just teasing, of course. IDK if the other players were luckier or saner. The Windscale piles were definitely quite insane, though.