I spent some of my childhood near Britain's Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant and had family-members who worked there. My grandfather (who worked there) and my aunt (who didn't!) both died due to blood clots that where caused by a gene mutation that hadn't affect our family before we came into contact with Sellafield. The incidence of child lukeamia is significantly higher in the areas around the plant, though this has been repeatedly covered up. Britich Nuclear Fuels Ltd even paid for a specialist cancer unit in Newcastle to ensure that deaths would be registered there and not near Sellafield. They've even changed the name (from Windscale) in the hope that people will forget the problems with the plant.

Please don't look to Britain. Our nuclear policy is a shambling array of misinformation. The original government whitepapers (from the 50's) completely failed to acknowledge the decommissioning costs involved in nuclear power plants (which are stupendously big) and incorrectly stated that nuclear power was the best option (when in fact alternative power forms are much cheaper and less dangerous in the long term).

Please don't build this plant, uranium and plutonium are fundamentally bad for humans, please consider alternative power forms that don't kill you if you come into contact with even the smallest particle of them.(United Kingdom)