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Old 13-03-2012, 11:58   #11
Tim Deegan
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Re: UK nuclear plans 'put energy in French hands'Government plans for nuclear power r

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
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Similar concentrations of radioactive waste are around smelting plants.

I think I'd rather have a reactor that is under constant surveilance to the n'th degree than the wholesale pollution accumulated over decades of uncontrolled combustion by products.
Sorry but that is complete rubbish. Radioactive waste is extremely highly radioactive, and has to be sealed in indestructable glass flasks that will last 1000's of years, so that the radiation doesn't leak out.

Carbon may be slightly radioactive, but doesn't even come close.

So the facts are that waste from a nuclear power station that is 100% sealed gives off less radiation than the carbon from a coal fired power station...well it doesn't take a scientist to work that out, because the carbon isn't sealed.

The many leaks of radiation that have taken place over the years in the UK, have not been from radioactive waste, then have been from the plants themselves.
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