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OT Nuclear waste.
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I presume this is the bit you wanted us to note:
'While the Government believes that safe and secure interim storage is an effective method of managing waste in the short to medium term, the Government is committed to delivering a permanent disposal solution'
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I'm sure the French would take it if they asked them, they have a lot of their own. Brian
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Does this mean the government might be seriously considering LFTR?
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Do you not know the meaning of the word "interim". It means they mean to do bugger all.
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Your article assures us that:
'the Government is committed to delivering a permanent disposal solution'
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Well, I picked up on that crucial statement, hence my throwaway remark about LFTR. :-)
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This is a diy newsgroup. I've only rarely had to dispose of nuclear waste a s part of diy, and I just put it in the trash with everything else. I'd sug gest that their ideas of disposal are simply not very practical for the ave rage diyer - or even the average enthusiast.
But as ever diy disposal is cheaper than the professionals. 250 million or whatever it was for 21 trucks of garbage seems a bit steep for my wallet. I can don a lead apron, stack some concrete blocks in the back & drive a tru ck for a lot less. But really it all seems a bit OTT for a smoke alarm or a trimphone.
NT :)
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I think it was Walter Marshall (or perhaps James Lovelock?) who said he would be more than happy to have a suitably shielded large lump of vitrified high level waste to provide domestic heating. As would I. (There is nothing like enough for everyone to have one).
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Yes. I think that the 'nuclear waste' footprint of an all nuclear UK citizen would come to something about the size of a tennis ball over his or her lifetime.
Bury it in the same coffin...
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That would give future archaeologists something to puzzle over.
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Perhaps not for very long though.
Adrian