Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Are you not worried about countries going nuclear?

Frankly, I'm more worried about what a dictatorship like Iran will be using their nuclear plants for than than the plants themselves. Nuclear plants are known for being the old-fashioned method of creating plutonium for fission bombs. It was the very reason they were introduced to my country in the firstt place. Britain's first plant was Windscale, which the MacMillan government created so that Britain could keep up with America and the Soviets in the arms race. It was later used to create Tritium in order to create Britain's first hydrogen bomb (which it failed at). I had to be shut down after a disastrous accident which released dangerous amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Since its closure, it is now better known as waste disposal site; Sellafeield

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