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Is Rehabitating old nuclear power stations a priority?

Planning permission is always a problem for new nuclear sites but surely we can rebuild an existing station on the same site?

I am against trying to clear existing sites of tiny amounts of radio active dust when in fact we need to rebuild our nuclear power stations.

The alternative would be to go back to coal once we have prioritised the design for some carbon capture plant for the chimney stack.

In the meantime DRAX and other stations should burn plastic as well as wood waste rather than shipping it at huge cost to be burnt overseas. 

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  • "Don't worry about the low-level nuclear waste we've left scattered around.  We've decided it's not worth the cost of cleaning up".
    At the right price that would work for me. I have a physics background and can do the risk sums. It always amuses me that there is an inversion, and the general public are !"£ scared of radiation, and really blase about viruses and food poisoning and so on, and the respective  professionals are quite calm about radiation, and !"£$ worried about biological hazards...

    Low level waste is just that.

    Mike.

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  • "Don't worry about the low-level nuclear waste we've left scattered around.  We've decided it's not worth the cost of cleaning up".
    At the right price that would work for me. I have a physics background and can do the risk sums. It always amuses me that there is an inversion, and the general public are !"£ scared of radiation, and really blase about viruses and food poisoning and so on, and the respective  professionals are quite calm about radiation, and !"£$ worried about biological hazards...

    Low level waste is just that.

    Mike.

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