Sellafield nuclear waste storage and development

JimmyA programme on BBC2 on Tuesday  was most enlightening but concluded that we need more nuclear power to avoid CO2 emissions that cause climate change in the future, but did not see any solution to the waste problem.

Is the requirement for such low  Sievert  levels really necessary.??    Japan I believe were allowed to empty slightly radiated water into the sea with no problem?

Are we over specifying and wasting tax payers money for no benefit at all? 

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  • Now here is another thought for you. 

    Whilst working for the disability bathroom companies and travelling for other purposes, all my journeys and places I visited were recorded on my Google Maps Timeline on the Google servers.

    Google are changing the the means of storage for the Maps Timeline from their servers to the mobile devices being used with in app storage taking up storage space on the mobile device. 

    I have just lost around eight years of data recording where I have been with the switch to the data being stored on my phone, plus the information is no longer being shared with my IPad through the server. So I no longer have a complete record of where I have been for the last eight and I am going to have to ensure I fill in my paper diary daily if I want to be certain my records are really correct. 

    Presumably Google are making the changes to reduce the number of servers they require and the amount of electricity they need. 

    The relevance of this is that Google have just ordered six or more nuclear reactors to power some of their AI data centres. 

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/15/google-buy-nuclear-power-ai-datacentres-kairos-power

    Being able to ask your phone a question, telling Alexa to turn the lights on or anything else that requires interaction with a computer and AI requires electricity and it seems that as a result of this using Google services and AI is going to produce nuclear waste that will need to be stored safely indefinitely. 

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  • Now here is another thought for you. 

    Whilst working for the disability bathroom companies and travelling for other purposes, all my journeys and places I visited were recorded on my Google Maps Timeline on the Google servers.

    Google are changing the the means of storage for the Maps Timeline from their servers to the mobile devices being used with in app storage taking up storage space on the mobile device. 

    I have just lost around eight years of data recording where I have been with the switch to the data being stored on my phone, plus the information is no longer being shared with my IPad through the server. So I no longer have a complete record of where I have been for the last eight and I am going to have to ensure I fill in my paper diary daily if I want to be certain my records are really correct. 

    Presumably Google are making the changes to reduce the number of servers they require and the amount of electricity they need. 

    The relevance of this is that Google have just ordered six or more nuclear reactors to power some of their AI data centres. 

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/15/google-buy-nuclear-power-ai-datacentres-kairos-power

    Being able to ask your phone a question, telling Alexa to turn the lights on or anything else that requires interaction with a computer and AI requires electricity and it seems that as a result of this using Google services and AI is going to produce nuclear waste that will need to be stored safely indefinitely. 

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