"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Franz Heymann wrote:

Down to here you spoke a great deal of sense. However, you are
wrong
about the release of radioactive gases into the air by nuclear
power
stations. In normal operation, nuclear power stations do not
release
any radioactive gases into the air at all. As a matter of fact,
the
old coal fired power stations *did* release a considerable amount
of
radioactive materials into the atmosphere, but it was not
considered
polite to mention that fact.

Any more than much of the west and north of the UK is situated on
top of a low-grade uranium ore, and many (most?) chippings used
on roads are 0.001% uranium.

And uranium is radioactive and hence carcinogenic :-)

As is tritium. Think of all those trutium-laden granite houses in
Cornwall. But it is also not polite to speak about that, for fear of
upsetting the housing market.

Franz