£56bn bill on the cards for getting rid of nuclear waste

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Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Friday August 12, 2005
The Guardian

The cost of cleaning up more than 50 years of nuclear waste from Britain's power stations and military projects has risen by £8bn to £56bn and will rise further, Sir Anthony Cleaver, chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, said yesterday.

If another 100 tonnes of plutonium plus thousands of tonnes of uranium stored at Sellafield, Cumbria, are also classified as waste, the bill will rise by a further £10bn.

/snip/ - - (ummmm what else would you call the plutonium and THOUSANDS OF TONNES of uranium - I thot Uranium was worth $$$ and theys got thousand of tons just "hangin around"?????? - meybe Iran can use it . . . )

"The authority is to open a new low-level waste depository at Dounreay, and find a replacement for the existing dump at Drigg, in Cumbria, which is filling up and will end up inundated because of the rising sea level."

/snip/ (and they built this dump at such a low level above sea level why?? :shrug:)

"The government is subsidising Thorp with £200m a year in cash even though the plant was put out of action in May by a leak, and no permission has been given for a restart."



This newclear energy thing might not be such a bargoon after all - remember - many outfits hide/bury toxins so they don't have to deal with the problem - but future generations will

(sigh)