Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar'


	Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar'

JICWyllie

5-27-2008 6:21 PM

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energy, nuclear, i-costs, i-decommisssioning, i-record

JICWyllie says:

This is a very big story. Nobody knows how much nuclear decommissioning will cost, only that it will cost billions more than anticipated. Nobody thought about decommissioning when the plants were built! It basically means that nuclear power is not a serious option.

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At the largest site, Sellafield, on the Cumbrian coast, I saw for myself one of the "ponds" in which an unknown mass of radioactive material was dumped in the 1950s.
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