WHO figures on deaths from Chernobyl .....reported in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/sep/06/energy.ukraine Chernobyl was 23 bleedin years ago, using a nuclear technology that was considered highly dangerous in the west even then and, of course, was functioning under the madness of a command economy...run by the state with no checks and balances. France gets over 60% of its electricity from nuclear power and many other countries have pretty high levels, some risk, yes, catastophic risk? Well, not convinced, and given that our climate is likely to take us to catastrophic levels in about 100 years, if not earlier, then we maybe can take those risks. We should certainly lbre brave enough to look at them without the shrill mantra of "Chernobyl, Chernobyl" every time nuclear power is bought up. By the way, Google deaths from mining in say just China last year and then come back on dangerous nuclear power. To dismiss it as a solution to the the massive dangers of global warming is Luddism pure and simple. PS the media argument is ridiculous - and a place for elsewhere - but if Guardian readers are really so uncomfortable with criticism of the paper I suggest we lose say references to neocons, Fox and The Daily Mail which are banded round as 'givens' of stupidity fairly readily on here. Or don't the rules work both ways?...as you know I think that Fox and The Daily Mail are both full of idiocy but is The Guardian sacrosanct?