Runner I concur. I saw the priest shaking water on the line of coffins. Sad opportunities media and panic merchants like the " their ABC and BBC mother of ABC are and always have has no worries. I lived in the UK and watched the BBC spin crap to support the IRA and enflame the Troubles, while Ulster suffered. They sat in the only 5 star Europa hotel, on company paid tab at bar. No wonder both sides bombed over 20 times.

That shot of coffins raise the issue of Family Isolation, not the horror of real wars, afghan, Syria, Kosovo et al, Vietnam, Korea, WW1/2...…

And as for Dr 'stormin' Normas Swan...… Grrrrrr! his the worse. Just look at the CORONA CAST and the CORONA factcheck site promoted by Mad Madeline on ABC Breakfast...….and we pay them well for this... and ITA B where is she.. Hiding in that panic room penthouse apartment in New York with Emp Mal and Queen Lucy I guess.!..... double GrrrrrrH!

Mhaze,

Roughly 80% of France's electricity is generated from Nuclear generation at half the price that Germany and Denmark do.

They also buy cheap power from the above when the wind and solar generate more than Germany and Denmark can use, and sell them expensive power when the wind and solar dry up without which G&D would need to buy massive batteries.

That there are other sources of CO2 is not pertinent to this discussion.

Hi Alan B. A "safe" nuclear reactor free kick for you.

Checkout "New TRISO Nuclear Mini-Reactors Will Be Safe: Program Manager" at http://breakingdefense.com/2020/04/new-triso-nuclear-mini-reactors-will-be-safe-program-manager/

"If the Pentagon does build the mobile reactors, it will deploy them far from the front lines – and even if they’re hit, their revolutionary TRISO fuel pellets will stay intact at temperatures that can melt steel.

the [US] Defense Department has not seen reactors as a viable alternative for its energy-hungry outposts on land — until now.

But what about the much-publicized risks of nuclear power? Better technology and a much smaller size should make the new mini-reactors dramatically safer than any existing nuclear power plant, the program director told me.

Earlier this month, the Defense Department announced it had awarded contracts to three companies – BWX, Westinghouse, and X-Energy – to develop competing designs for a mobile miniature nuclear reactor. It’s part of a program named Project Pele, after the Hawaiian goddess of creation and fire.

That’s thanks to a revolutionary new technology called TRISO http://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/triso-particles-most-robust-nuclear-fuel-earth which replaces large uranium cores with millions of tiny pellets, each of them sufficiently hardened to lock radioactivity inside that they can remain intact at temperatures that would melt steel.

[As vulnerability to terrorism and cconventional attack has always been my concern with reactors and get this.] "Even if an enemy missile hit a TRISO reactor – and the Pentagon doesn’t plan to put these anywhere near a war zone – the blast would mainly scatter pellets across the landscape, with only a few breaking open to emit tiny amounts of radioactive material. The goal is to design the TRISO reactor so that a conventional warhead powerful enough to crack the reactor open would actually do more damage to the surrounding environment by the sheer force of its explosive blast than any radiation released..."

PETE COMMENT

But a caution: TRISO technology is in a very, very, unproven stage of development. But with the Pentagon to possibly fund TRISO development what can possibly go wrong?

Cheers

Pete