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Where should this be stored, in repositorys underground, on site by the nuclear power stations or elsewhere...overseas, in space etc etc
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Where should this be stored, in repositorys underground, on site by the nuclear power stations or elsewhere...overseas, in space etc etc
not in my back garden
TWith the possible prospect of an independent Scotland and a present SNP majority in the Scottish Assembly the time honoured device of dumping any Nuclear Issues in Scotland e.g. Dounreay, Faslane} may no longer be a political option?
Or Aberdeen gently fizzing from it's granite.
It's not as if Hunterston A, B, and Torness have produced any of the unwanted stuff.
Irony of Dounreay's fast breeder was that it actually ate some of the unwanted stuff.
Oh yes and don't forget the ex-RN long black ex lurking things that sit in Rosyth.
Or Aberdeen gently fizzing from it's granite.
grober said:It's interesting to examine the history of why Dounreay was chosen as the site for the first experimental Fast Breeder Reactor. As revealed by secret cabinet papers released a few years ago there was a point at the start of Britain starting to develop its own nuclear weapons when they contemplated detonating such a weapon on mainland Britain. Caithness was chosen as an area of low population density and possibly because it was as far away from London/Westminster as possible. In the end they decided against it -- BECAUSE THEY RECKONED THE CLIMATE WAS TOO DAMP FOR THE INSTRUMENTS RECORDING THE EFFECTS OF THE EXPLOSION TO WORK PROPERLY.
So when it came to site-ing a possibly hazardous prototype fast breeder reactor all the preliminary survey work and projected effects of an "incident" had been done already not forgetting it was still about as far away from the London Government as you could get.
Matter of public record if anyone wants to check.
Wasn't it picked due to its remote location and sparse population?
How about in some of the old shut down tube lines under London.
not in my back garden
Thought I just said that? However in today's more open political climate what looks eminently sensible to a government minister in Whitehall may not be so appealing to some of the people who actually live there? As apparently was the case in Cumbria today?
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