Kitchen Garden Forum

Whenever the subject of nuclear power is discussed the detractors and windmill lovers cite the nuclear waste problem.

I fully accept there is problem and that I trust (hope) in time this will be solved in as safe a manner as possible. The two existing nuclear plants near me have always transported their radioactive waste away by road, close to my house, and then by rail but the third proposed nuclear station (Hinkley C) will keep its waste at the site.

I have read many complaints from people moving to the area that there was no reference to the nuclear plants on their search when considering moving here. If this is so then I have sympathy for them, since many have said that they would have moved/ retired to elsewhere in the West Country since nuclear waste is a worry to them.

Unfortunately whilst I fully accept radio active waste/leakage is certainly not a good thing and to be avoided as far as possible, few seem to realise that radio active leakage occurs naturally in most of the West Country and no doubt in other parts of the UK as well But, not publicised very much, I wonder why?)

http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/B875.pdf
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 933461.ece

Barney

The trouble with any UN agency, John, is that, far from being non-political, it very soon turns into an internal power struggle between nation and nation, each one trying to safeguard what it thinks are its own interests. Then you get a majority of representatives finding they have something in common [eg being developing nations] and banding together against proposals from the outgroup which may be the ones with most merit. The ones in the outgroup are oftenthe ones with the money available for funding and won't provide it for second-rate proposals. And so it goes on. I don't think a Un agency will achieve anything. What we have to do to combat greenhouse gases [apart from culling the human race] is for the Americans to reduce their consumption and the developed world to give clean energy technology to India and China.