SO LET’S get this clear. Fact one: the Government believes that, properly designed and run, a new generation of nuclear power stations would be perfectly, absolutely, indubitably, demonstrably, assuredly and without qualification, safe. Got that? Safe. S-a-f-e. People who might live nearby can be assured, on the basis of impeccable scientific advice, that these power stations represent no danger at all: neither of low-level radiation, nor of a nuclear disaster.
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So what could be the objection?

shamelessly lifted from Matthew Parris in today's Times