There were in fact several civilian workers who died quite unpleasantly from exposure to radiation while working with experimental nuclear power plants in the States. The nuclear power plant advocates tend to exclude them from the body count. Then there was the utter disaster of Ukranian Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, with three dozen workers almost immediately killed, and thousands more who have died since who lived in the surrounding area.

I'm still not convinced that nuclear power is worth the admittedly small risk of a catastrophic meltdown.

And it's my understanding that reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods (high level radioactive waste) when successful still results in huge volumes of lower level radioactive waste.

The spent fuel pools which are now scattered around our country adjacent to nuclear power plants, or where the plants have been decommissioned, also make tempting targets for terrorists.

Charley Noble