I'm not worried about birds, couldn't give a flying fuck about birds. You misunderstand.
I'm worried about them swimming in a highly radioactive fucking spent fuel, that's crumbling at the seams full to the brim with decades old fuel rods that have literally eroded into sludge, becoming heavily contaminated with radioisotopes, and then redistributing such contamination wherever they then choose to fuck off to.
That could be outside the local chippy, or in your back garden.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/55612.stm
There are alternatives to NP, they just don't have the financial backing or vested interests of people with influence behind them like that industry has.