So I’m enjoying the scenery from a Brit rail and suddenly I see these humungous Homer Simpson type nuclear power plants in the countryside in the UK, smoking away. Do residents in the UK have any problem with having nuclear power plants in their back yards? It seems that many people in the U.S. have an aversion to having these near residential areas. NIMBY (for acronym fans): not in my back yard. This is another of a million topics I have not studied. I understand that there have been some good arguments for more nuclear energy or power. Was just wondering how people in other countries feel about this.
My guess is that you might have been on the East Coast main line from London to York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, about fifty miles south of York. You can see several power stations there, but I think most of them are coal-burning stations.
Of course there are many nuclear power stations here, and people don’t like them much. There is a lot of controversy about Sellafield and Dounreay reprocessing stuff from other countries; generally people don’t feel that there is much democratic control over the nuclear industry.