Radiation is good for you! (Horizon)

leaskovski · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:00

Anyone just watch that on BBC2??
Wow, very interesting stuff! Needless to say, it is either the government paying off the BBC to try and convince the masses, or, we just don’t understand it enough!

What made me laugh, was the headline figures for the predicted amount of deaths for Chernobyl! 4000 or about that they thought. But so far they said that only about 50 odd can actually be pointed at the accident!

If the BBC are still doing that download thing so you can watch a programme, I seriously recommend people to watch this! :eek:

Reppyboyo · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:02

Then what about those lads in the Russian Submarine that fixed the nuclear reactor or something?

leaskovski · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:05

Just a quick bbc link about the programme...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5173310.stm

Glaucus · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:05

I'm assuming it was talking about low level radiation. As high level is known to be fatal.

leaskovski · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:09

AcidHell2 said:
I'm assuming it was talking about low level radiation. As high level is known to be fatal.

Yeah, low level as in a nuclear power plant going bye bye, eg, Chernobyl. lol I could believe what they were saying in the programme!

Ex-RoNiN · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:10

Radiation is good for you!

This coming a few days after the government announces they will build more nuclear power plants :rolleyes:

Glaucus · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:11

Ex-RoNiN said:
This coming a few days after the government announces they will build more nuclear power plants

Its the only fuel we can use in the near future. It's also extremley safe. A modern power station cann't melt down.

Ex-RoNiN · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:12

AcidHell2 said:
Its the only fuel we can use in the near future. It's also extremley safe. A modern power station cann't melt down.

And completely irrelevant to the topic, and to the comment I made. If you want to have a debate on the safety of nuclear power, open your own thread instead of derailing this one.

Eliot · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:15

actually i thought nuclear is gonna be on its way out, we have like 100 years of it no?

Sleepy · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:22

Ex-RoNiN said:
This coming a few days after the government announces they will build more nuclear power plants

Yeah cos Horizon is such a major influence on the publics opinion just one BBC program made by lackies of nuLabour will sway the masses to President Blairs viewpoint. :rolleyes:

BTW this program said nothing new.

m3csl2004 · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:25

horizon makes me cry

4 episodes a week im watching atm - all painfully over dramatic

leaskovski · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:28

Sleepy said:
BTW this program said nothing new.

Whhhhooooooo! I'll stop you there! Can i be you?

Well, i've never heard all this before. Personally the only stuff i've heard about Chernobyl is all the media overkill.

philio16 · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:33

Eliot said:
actually i thought nuclear is gonna be on its way out, we have like 100 years of it no?

nuclear fusion is the next one....all you need is water pretty much, and theres infinite sources of that! it is impossible to blow up/melt down and theres very little waste!

benjo plz. · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:35

leaskovski said:
Yeah, low level as in a nuclear power plant going bye bye, eg, Chernobyl.

Yer, as long as you're like over 100 miles away

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Pumpkinstew · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:06

Eliot said:
actually i thought nuclear is gonna be on its way out, we have like 100 years of it no?

All of Britains nuclear power stations are scheduled to be decomissioned within the next 20 years or so. Hence the need to build new ones.

Dtab · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:23

Was a very interesting watch,the most shocking bit for me was the number of abortions that were almost forced on people in the vacinity.I'm sure they said 200k,but thinking about it after that seems way too high,did i mis-hear it or was that the figure given? Even if it was 'only' 2000 that would dwarf the number who actually died by a factor of 40.

Aod · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:27

Abortions do not count as deaths. end of.

even if they did, they would not have been as a result of radiation damage, more a result of the Fear of radiation damage.

Eliot · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:41

philio16 said:
nuclear fusion is the next one....all you need is water pretty much, and theres infinite sources of that! it is impossible to blow up/melt down and theres very little waste!

so whe cant do it now then i guess? not enough tech? thats sounds like free energy to me lol

Zip · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:43

philio16 said:
nuclear fusion is the next one....all you need is water pretty much, and theres infinite sources of that! it is impossible to blow up/melt down and theres very little waste!

But there is a hose pipe ban over there so you lot will miss out

Vegetarian · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:45

BBC is basicly owned by govenment - and is their properganda tool - just ask anyone one that works for the BBC!