giving more power than solar panels.
The first crash of a Pu-powered satellite was in 1964. This spread 1kg of Pu-238 over all continents. Modern craft generally carry far more Pu: the 1997 Cassini probe to Saturn had 33kg. NASA's environmental impact statement for Cassini, should it have burnt up in the atmosphere, stated that 5 billion people would be affected and that seriously contaminated urban areas would require permanent evacuation.
An independent physicist, involved in plutonium work for the Manhattan project, estimated that the number of extra cancers would be 950,000. Currently, 34 nuclear powered satellites are orbiting earth. They will eventually return as their orbits decay.
Using nuclear power in space (to say nothing of nuclear weapons is another example of the environmental irresponsibility of capitalism. Added to this are the creation of space junk and the proliferation of There is a threat from nuclear-powered aircraft too. The Pentagon is planning a nuclear-powered pilotless (drone) aircraft, which will be able to fly for months without stopping or refuelling, rather than hours.
These craft are used for surveillance in the exclusion zones over Iraq and armed ones were used in Afghanistan and to kill an alleged Al Qaeda member and four companions in a car in Yemen recently.
In twelve years of UK and US bombing, Iraq has been able to shoot down two drones and nothing else. In several years time, downing a drone - which could be designed to explode if hit - would spread radioactivity far and wide, like a "dirty" bomb. example of the environmental irresponsibility of capitalism. .... ••••••• planning controls and build 600,000 new houses in the next 30 years, including 200,000 in the Thames estuary flood plain and up to 370,000 in Milton Keynes, raising its population from 210,000 to I million.
At the same time, nine northern regions are to receive £500m to demolish unwanted homes. The House Builders Federation naturally welcomed the plan. The govern-