Nuclear clean-up costs billions more (UK)

[struggle4progress]

Mar 31 2006
Daily Post

THE decommissioning clean-up costs of Britain's nuclear power sites have escalated from £44bn to £56bn, it was disclosed yesterday.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said a new estimate, however, would push the costs of cleaning and operating its 20 sites to £70bn.

That figure includes an operating cost of £14bn, according to a spokesman ...

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[ladjf]

1. Don't worry too much about a possible nuclear accident such

as happened in Chernobyl. It only takes about 250,000 years for the radioactivity to drop to non-lethal levels. (sarcasm)

[dcfirefighter]

2. Don't worry too much about the REAL ocean acidification

due to increased atmospheric carbon levels that happen when people burn stuff to make energy, waiting for perfection in the for of teensy weensy amounts of solar and wind power.

Or, we could build new nuke plants and require them to post GBP100bn worth of bonds, which would raise their per kWh cost by a fraction of a cent. (pence?)

[NNadir]

3. Actually we shouldn't worry about too many Chernobyls

Very few RBMK reactors still operate.