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I know there's a lot of pro-nuclear types on this board so I thought I'd post this. I already knew that this sort of thing would be the case but seeing it in an actual news article still managed to surprise me
The article's about decomissioning the old nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd, in Snowdonia. They're attempting to clean it up a little quicker to shave £150 million off the bill.
The bit in the article that made me think was this:
We know that Labour's "review" of new nuclear was found by the British courts to be illegal. But we're getting 'em anyway - it's not as if the Cuntlibdematives are going to change set-in-stone policy despite it's illegality.
So, apart form the unlimited costs that the UK taxpayer will now have to pick up (estimated to be 90bn+), it's massively saddening to me that we're going to have sites all over the UK that will have to be maintained until the next century before, presumably, we have to concrete over them for the next twenty thousand years or so
The article's about decomissioning the old nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd, in Snowdonia. They're attempting to clean it up a little quicker to shave £150 million off the bill.
The bit in the article that made me think was this:
Even if the plans to deal with the intermediate level waste go ahead, the site will not be closed.
It will enter a period called "care and maintenance", in effect a mothballing of the site with the intermediate waste in store.
This will last until 2088, when the site will be completely cleared, which should be finished by 2098.
We know that Labour's "review" of new nuclear was found by the British courts to be illegal. But we're getting 'em anyway - it's not as if the Cuntlibdematives are going to change set-in-stone policy despite it's illegality.
So, apart form the unlimited costs that the UK taxpayer will now have to pick up (estimated to be 90bn+), it's massively saddening to me that we're going to have sites all over the UK that will have to be maintained until the next century before, presumably, we have to concrete over them for the next twenty thousand years or so