nuclear waste
Posted by jossc — 6 October 2008 at 4:59pm
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Hartlepool nuclear plant - completely out of action
Should you happen to find yourself debating with a passionate supporter of nuclear power about how to supply our country's future energy needs, the odds are that pretty early in the debate they'll play their trump card - namely that only nuclear can supply the 'base load' necessary to ensure that the lights stay on throughout the long, dark British winter. Hang the dangers of radioactivity, forget the ruinous expense, they'll say - we can't do without nuclear power.
Posted by jamie — 26 August 2008 at 3:41pm
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Some unsettling
news appeared in the Independent
over the weekend, which revealed that an Environment Agency report has said
that containers at Sellafield (where most of the UK's waste is stored) may not
be as stable as was thought. The
document effectively destroys Britain's
already shaky disposal plans just as ministers are preparing an expansion of
nuclear power.
Posted by jamie — 24 July 2008 at 2:55pm
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Well, what do you know? Another news story has
broken which demonstrates that the UK's nuclear industry is not the
robust, well-managed machine our ministers would have us believe. The
government has sneaked out a report assessing the working practices of the
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) which is managing the clean-up of
existing power stations and waste. They were clearly hoping no one would notice
as there's no doubt that many people have been caught with their pants
anklewards.
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Posted by jamie — 12 June 2008 at 3:01pm
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We've known for quite some time that the
government's preferred solution to that nagging problem of all the nuclear
waste currently lying around the place is to dump it in a
big hole in the ground. Nice. However, they've had trouble finding anywhere
in the country which has been willing to live with this waste bubbling away
beneath their feet but now they've come up with the perfect solution: bribery!
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Posted by jossc — 29 May 2008 at 11:32am
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Sellafield: major ongoing problems have been hidden from the public
Yesterday, Gordon Brown
felt compelled to go on the record to announce that the UK needs to not
only maintain but to increase
its nuclear power capacity. And yet the nuclear industry is not exactly
hale and hearty because, let's face it, it's been a terrible week for the poor dears.
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