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Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?
(www.bbc.com)
The poorest one, most likely.
Its cool. Just go back to one the bazillion previous threads on nuclear waste disposal. There was a dude who said they'd gladly put all nuclear waste under their house since its so safe in modern times. Just contact that one, all good then.
I did some postgraduate courses with guys from Sellafield - the shenanigans they talked about didn't fill me with confidence.
I went on a school trip there and it is very impressive, like a Bond villains lair, but they did always gloss over the waste issue and, until that's solved, we should be wary of building any similar large reactors.
Yeah my mate worked there for a few years after his chemical engineering degree. I hadn't realised what a disaster it was until he spoke about it. Apparently the Russians phoned the site when Chernobyl happened because it was the worst nuclear disaster in Europe that had happened before.
Mate also told me there were many flora and fauna that lived in the area despite the high levels of gamma radiation. One of his colleagues had a bird shit in her hair on the way in to work one day and it wouldn't wash out in the chemical shower so they had to shave her hair off.
Can’t we dump them where we’ve extracted oil from? Surely under the sea is a better choice.
ILL TAKE IT, I WANT IT. ILL FUCKING TAKE IT, GIVE ME YOUR NUCLEAR WASTE!!!!!!!
I’m guessing one that isn’t covered by a national park, aonb, is sparsely populated, has the least benefit from tourism and doesn’t produce food.
I’m not sure where that would be.
Newport city centre then wheeeyyyyyy
I suspect it'll probably end up in the same places most other large hazardous industrial sites will be - rural, coastal just off an arterial road route somewhere. See also: Torness, Easington, Milford Haven etc.
That said, Tom Scott did a video (because of course he did) on plans for nuclear testing on UK soil - have a look if you're interested - and it seems the answer to that was underneath a chunky section of Yorkshire moorland.
Get good old Nige to take to Clacton. It will only improve the place.
Except he’ll just take it to his mate in America.
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