WORLDbytes Report Suggests British Public Not Sold on Nuclear Hype

London, United Kingdom, June 16, 2011 --(PR.com)-- WORLDbytes, the online citizen TV channel, has today launched a report which investigates public thinking on nuclear power on the streets of East London. As WORLDbytes director, Ceri Dingle says: “The findings are salutary; savvy citizens may worry about waste, but few have completely swallowed the nuclear doom mongering.”

After the accident at the Fukushima power plant in tsunami-hit Japan earlier this year, apocalyptic headlines of a nuclear meltdown dominated the Western press, whilst thousands had died not from radiation but from the earthquake and tsunami. This compelling report suggests that the British public have not entirely bought into the fear whipped up in much of the media and consider the facts of Fukushima testament to how safe nuclear power may be. As one contributor points out, “I have seen a shift of focus in the media from the tsunami, which was a great disaster, twenty thousand people have died, to the plant accident. I don’t know why that is. Maybe they’re against it.”

Another tells them, “I don’t see that there’s actually going to be much of an alternative if we all want the amount of heat and light and power that we all seem to want, to live the way we want to live...what concerns me about green power is I just can’t see that it’s going to generate enough power with wind farms.”

The report “The View On The Streets: Nuclear Power” is available to watch on WORLDbytes at: http://www.worldbytes.org/the-view-on-the-streets-nuclear-power/.

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For more information and interviews contact:
Ceri Dingle or Viv Regan at: info@worldbytes.org Tel: +44 (0)20 8985 5435

Notes to editors:
WORLDbytes is a unique online Citizen TV channel featuring reports and programmes created by young volunteers learning to shoot "on the job." Its programmes aim to get behind the headlines and promote a people-first perspective on a wide-range of issues. The channel's credo is "don't shout at the telly, change the message on it."

WORLDbytes is run by the education charity WORLDwrite, registered charity number 1060869. The charity champions quality citizen reporting and provides free film training to make this possible. The charity's website address is www.worldwrite.org.uk.

WORLDwrite has an open door policy and encourages all-comers to get involved and recognise there are no limits to what's possible.

For more general information, please visit: www.worldwrite.org.uk & www.worldbytes.org.

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