ABSTRACT
The view is widely encouraged by the anti-nuclear movement that everyone sensitive to the environment should be opposed to the development of nuclear energy. By twisting this dogma around, the inference is then made that supporters of nuclear energy are hostile to the environment. The authors propose to show here that this inference by inversion is false. Of the several million people who annually visit the Lake District National Park in the UK, they doubt that one in a thousand is visually aware of the nearby nuclear establishments at Windscale, the largest of their kind in Britain. Yet a considerable fraction of visitors soon becomes uncomfortably aware of the desecration of the Park caused by the City of Manchester. Some issues concerning animals are fairly clear-cut, while others are not. For the clear-cut cases it is reasonable to take clear-cut decisions.
