O Noel!

Radiation explains me lovely tan.

An submariners need more of it.

SSNs for peace?

Exhibit A http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/us-nuclear-subs-that-temporarily-docked.html

and B http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/guam-nuclear-submarine-and-air-base.html

:)

Peter-kin

There's a wikipedia page which provides a bit more background on the financing of the series. It would be interesting to know who the technical advisors that worked with the screen-writer were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_%E2%80%93_Twisting_the_Dragon%E2%80%99s_Tail

Thank you, Dan Monceaux
It seems that the series was not funded by nuclear interests. So it looks as though they relied on nuclear physicists for their information on ionising radiation. Professor Thomas seems limited to discussing the sort-lived radioactive iodine.

It would have been an improvement had they consulted a radiation expert, for example Dr Ian Fairlie. His most recent article explains the current debate about low level radiation. http://www.ianfairlie.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/US-NRC-Consultation-4-1.pdf

I simply do not have the time to refute all the spurious arguments in Noel's post. I guess it proves the point that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Today's nuclear technology is so far beyond the post war fission reactors that Noel's concerns are mostly risable. The real problem is that persons like her with zealous belief in their own myths can do much damage. If the climate fundamentalists are even 20% right, nuclear power will be the saviour of planet earth and advanced civilisations. Without nuclear some humans may survive, but my guess is that they will wish they had not.

G'day Pliny of Perth

Your poor post paints a pattern of periodic pathos.

You may be an "I simply do not have the time" pauper, but you will have to do more than attempt to drag the author down to the depths ye inhabit.

Poida de la Pox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpS31FJO8_o

Gudday Plantagenet,

Your terse dismissal is unfortunately justified to some degree. However I am about to depart for the far blue yonder and just now resemble a lizard flat out drinking. Allow me to comment that I am well informed with a hard science background and that a complete rebuttal of Noel Wauchope's claims is a very lengthy business. I do sincerely believe that views similar to hers are dangerous and very misleading and have the capacity to do harm to the national interest. In fact, many of the population of Australia are behaving like lemmings dancing to a pied piper's flute playing songs of political correctness and denial of reality. Will Australia wake up in time? By the way, I understood that the last of the plantagenets died out with Richard III in 1485.