simon l& and a half said:Windscale - an inevitable part of our nuclear industry - has killed hundreds if not thousands.
What's for darn sure is that wind turbines will never have to be bankrolled in the fashion (if £70,000,000,000 can ever be fashionable) that this government intends.
Wind power could give us 20% of our electricity by 2015. Nuclear might give us one power station in 2017. Given that we're in a hurry...
Hundreds if not thousands killed? Where is the evidence?
Wind farms are built using a government subsidy called The Renewables Obligation. Electricity suppliers are obliged to build a certain amount of renewable generating capacity in return for government cash to make them economic to the companies. Otherwise they'd be a waste of time and money to the companies and they would just not be built. Wind power never will be bankrolled by the taxpayer to the same extent as nuclear has or will be. That's because wind power is at best going to be an expensive minor contributor to our energy needs whereas nuclear power could easily provide nearly all electricity, just as it does in France.