Why now?

     Several years ago, when I wrote Everyone Can be a herO, (fiction from the future) I didn't know what was going to happen at Fukushima.  In my book I guessed that the English government would be sparing when it came to the truth about the amount of radioactive contamination left and that there would still be people around wanting to make money out of nuclear power. There would also be a majority of people who didn't want it and just wanted a healthy and fairer life for the future generations, although they knew that, because of the accident, their future would be blighted by increased disease and mutations.  In my book, however, no one speaks about it. The kids don't know much about nuclear waste, because they boycotted nuclear power lessons on principle.
     Society has learned to cope without oil and it hasn't been as hard as people expected, but when a nuclear accident happens, this is something that can't just be a forgotten event. The aftermath is there for millions of years.
     It takes people power and a deal of bravery to protest and stand up against the hidden lobby who want to make money out of the situation and whereas the good guys play clean, the bad guys play dirty.  Plus ca change...

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The harsh facts

The harsh fact is that nuclear accidents leave a legacy of sicknesses which develop over the years and are spread across the globe. If the wind blows you "hot spot" particles to breath in or eat and those hot spots causes you cancer, it doesn't make much difference if your friends have them or not.. Those ones are yours. This means that countries have a global responsibility to their neighbours.
We seem to be very quick in offering to go and bomb someone else's country, in England. Well, not me, but our government. Maybe they don't mind what they do to other people, and  it's up to us to point out to them.. because the Lib Dems certainly seem to have forgotten.. that nuclear power is dangerous, accidents do happen and countries like Norway have already chosen not to have nuclear power.  However, the wind from Sellafield only takes minutes to reach them, if it's blowing in the right direction. We don't have the right to risk giving  the Norwegian people cancer.  They didn't vote this government in and my guess is that if a lot of people in this country had known how it would turn out.. they wouldn't have either.