I fully understand why we have nuclear reactors but there nothing new and you have to assume eventually it will be phased out because of the serious dangers that go with them. Radiation posioning is a serious matter which could eventually have an effect on all our lives one way or another.
Radiation poisoning is serious, but so is global warming and running out of fossil fuels.
If you don't understand this difference between there, they're and their you're probably going to struggle with nuclear fission.

The whole Japanese nuclear plant thing was a bomb waiting to go off. The UK doesn't have the same issues, but the OP has suggested the radiation from the plant is 'eating the earth'. Oh yeah, it'll probably go clean through.