Alrighty then, getting about time to put up the next update. Who’s ready to see things start to heat up for dear old Oswald?
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For Christ's sake, nuclear power was the way forward towards cleaner energy and they ruined it with the first bloody station. Idiots.
Hopefully everyone decided the elites were the problem, forced everyone to stick to the safety measures and carried on building them.
So it seems here that Winsdscale played a similar effect on an authoritarian regime as Chernobyl did on Gorbachev's USSR.
Though it appears in this timeline people are as unable to properly gauge nuclear costs as they are in our own: no one ever castigates coal like they do nuclear, and yet if you count the cost of the coal industry in lives lost through to immediate accident, lives shortened due to things like black lung, and the environment cost of coal - nuclear is a babe in the woods. Just goes to show - perception is everything.
Incidentally my favourite "take" on Windscale in fiction comes from the comic/graphic novel Action at a Distance - part of the Peter Grant/Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronvitich. For those interested in modern urban fantasy, written with a wicked sense of humour and more than a touch of satire, I recommend them.
Well the mines are obviously going to have to be addressed sooner or later, so either way I don’t think nuclear power is out for the count just yet. Having the French around to spread the fission gospel will probably help.
Have loads of nuke stations and when they find that north sea oil and gas, they can use it for something else or build a military surplus.
Military surplus? In my Commonwealth of Britain?!
Not much other use for fossil fuels once you've got a nuclear state up and running
Given the apprppriation and deployment of early 20th century syndicalism thought, I'm surprised there isn't required national service already for everyone between 15 and 25 of at least some time working for the good of the People doing something, which for most would be military.
The radical thing of course is just to leave them in the ground. (The fact that even suggesting this feels far and away the most far fetched possibility in this TL is… well, grim doesn’t quite cover it does it.)
Very good update. Amazed I've never heard of this incident until now.
I suspect more and more unrest over coal as it inevitably has to cease production and transfer to something else. There quite simply isn't enough left, and there's much better options coming along every few years.
If one seeks to be a power, one has to be a nuclear power. The world being as it is, not as we would wish it.
I do feel sorry for the ordinary coal-workers, but to be brutally honest the eventual closing of the pits will probably do wonders - in the long term - for the general health and wellbeing of the miners and their descendants. Not to mention the environmental cost - the first glimmerings of which are surely not long away now.
And I would not be surprised if the union grips ever more tightly to what it has even as what is has starts so slip away - it will be like trying to grip sand in a fist.
A poignant representation of what it must feel like with the development of such weapons at the fore. While we have thankfully moved on a bit (albeit only slightly), it still casts a shadow onto the modern day.
If one seeks to be a power, one has to be a nuclear power. The world being as it is, not as we would wish it.
Looking ahead, I think we’re heading back into an off-season slow down, and I’m sure most people are off hunting for bugs in CK3, but I’ll probably keep the update momentum up here going into autumn regardless. That probably sees us at 1969 by the New Year? Do shout if things are pushing along too fast.