Bury your nuclear waste, UK advised (New Scientist, 27 April 2006)  The UK government has been advised by an official panel to dispose of nuclear waste by burying it deep underground - the same solution it has already rejected three times over the last 30 years.

Clean-up of N-plant sites speeded up (East Anglian Daily Times, 12 August 2005)  AN ENVIRONMENTAL group has raised fears that a landmark strategy which would hasten the clean-up of nuclear sites - including Sizewell A and Bradwell - could actually pave the way for a new generation of plants.

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MEDIA & NEWS STORIES ON NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT & DECOMMISSIONING

 

What will be the total cost of nuclear waste? We won't know until the final bill has been totted up in thousands of years. EdF won't take on that liability. EdF and the UK government are planning to dump it onto future generations.

"if anybody, including BNFL were given a choice about whether to start building a large oxide reprocessing plant now, the answer would almost certainly be in the negative. THORP may be a marvel of modern engineering, but it is a marvel designed in a period of unreserved optimism about nuclear power that has now passed " [Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry]

 

 

In January 2008 Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, and Northavon MP, Steve Webb said: "The price of dealing with existing nuclear waste has leapt by a staggering £17 billion in the last four years alone. Suggestions that costs may soar even further in the future are very disturbing.

"Since no one seems to know what the final cost for decommissioning will be, how can the Government promise that taxpayers will not end up bailing out the private sector?

"How much is it going to cost our children to clean up the mess left by the new generation of nuclear power stations being planned by this Government?"

 

 

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