Impressed £67.5 billion... nope... 117.4 billion, and rising.

I do believe the problem lies in this;

""There needs to be immediate change at the top of the consortium and a radical re-evaluation of the piecemeal hiving-off of the nuclear sector to private companies that are clearly ill-equipped to cope and have little interest in ensuring Britain has world-class nuclear facilities."

RAther then nuclear power itself.

Oh and;

 

I do believe you are correct Thot

 

For that amount of money, we could build a unmanned space ship and send it into space and just dump the nuclear waste in space, or randomly destroy planets, that'd be fun.

 

Yeah let's send all the waste to Pluto that fucker tricked us into thinking it was a Planet for years!

 

I mean, look at Mars, the yanks have the Buggy thing there drilling tiny holes and being yay we've drilled a hole, lets send a fucking spaceship there, nuke the planet and just be like, yo, we did that shit, if there was life, there's not anymore, yo.

 

I don't think it's fair to judge by Sellafield, it was a one off, reprocessing centre and produced all our..and much of America's weapons grade plutonium, everything was dumped there and the original dumping was done with no thought whatsoever of the future, it was our..and many countries, nuclear pit. Calder hall was the worlds first reactor to produce electricity commercially and produced 60mw.

 

We have Americas? Really?

The size of that country, and we have Americas waste too?

 

Don't worry, you repaid it in full with simon cowell.

 

I wonder what the benefit of having our own nuke R&D start to finish on our soil, guaranteed power for certain parts of the country (not dependent on supply of coal or gas from wartorn countries) and the general expertise in nuke-tech is? Over the last 50-60 years? Probably more than £1bn a year. Fuck it. Cost of doing business.

 

Thought they were storing much of it in Granite caves in Wales. Which they then flooded killing a student activist group (incl. Joanne Whalley) who were funded by the CIA.....

 

Edge Of Darkness - excellent drama series on BBC many many years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/edge/intro.shtml

 

If the Falkland islanders ever vote to be handed back to Argentina then then have the perfect place to bury it all

 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...-plan-to-make-nuclear-waste-disappear-8732655

Notable? " $3 billion price tag".

Problem might lay elsewhere as mentioned

 

We build nuclear reactors for subs in Derby, we build our own missiles and bombs, we maintain many nuke plants in the UK, we have a large and active physics community researching various nuke-related theory. Don't be so shortsighted. There is a benefit to spending that money, it may or may not outweigh the overall cost but I'd rather have a home grown bomb that we can threaten anyone we fucking like with at virtually any cost. This planet is heading for some serious war in the next 50 years. Do you want to grow potatoes and wear a stop the war badge or tool the fuck up?

It's not just about energy and cost per kilowatthour.

 

I think the amount is acceptable for what it has created and continues to create.

However, it should not be down to the tax payer to take on the entire cost...though if private companies got hit with it they would soon absorb it into our bills so it's kind of a lose-lose situation.

 

Well you can't know anything for a 100%, but as stated there it would take such an event to dig out those canisters(sealed with best tech we got, encased in bedrock etc) that the nuclear waste would be a smallscale problem at that point.

When it's complete, there's no reason for people to go there and they probably won't even know(outside history books) that the storage even existed.

100k years is good enough for me as a solid storage

 

My ex brother in law worked for bnfl..in charge of one of the disposal plants..the stories he told me you can be sure 61 billion is going in the pockets of advisors and lawyers..90% of the waste is low level but requires an army of suits just to bury a glove that is less radioactive than the ground it is buried in.

 

Surprise, government paying people serious money for doing minimal work.

I wonder what the true unemployment number would be if we cut all these 'experts' and 'advisors'