The world goes nuclear, but what about the waste?
Wednesday 13th May 2009, 2:29PM BST.
RADIOACTIVE waste produced by a factory at Cap de la Hague is expected to double by 2015.
Areva, which is the largest nuclear reprocessing factory in the world and the custodian of the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear matter, has released its objective.
It states that in five years’ time it plans to reprocess 1,500 tonnes per year.
The new director of the factory, Jean-Jacques Dreher, released the figures, for the factory situated on the Normandy coast, nine miles from Alderney and within sight of Guernsey and Sark.
Areva’s previous boss, Denis Eudier, took up his post in 2005, when the French nuclear industry was in recession due to a global downturn in investment in nuclear installations.
But in the space of five years, climate change and carbon fears have led governments to reinvest in new nuclear technology rather than coal or oil-fired power stations.
An Areva statement revealed that between 150 and 200 nuclear power stations, many of them French-designed EPR reactors, are to be built over the next 40 years.
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as the world looks to build hundreds of new nuclear plants in a panic reaction to global warming, it will enhance the risk of nuclear accident, nuclear terrorist attack and will sow a million more nuclear waste seeds amongst us all. i note from time to time the efforts of the state’s emergency planning officer in rehearsing for local disasters, including letting local agencies loose to dish out cups of tea to victims of the big waves coming over the wall and so forth. what i want to know mr emergency planning officer is, when Flamanville or La Hague goes up during a persisent north-easterly, how you get my kids of the island? i see in the telephone directory you suggest i make sure i have adequate insurance in such an event. listen buster – what we need to know is how we get off the island cos if you have no plan then my kids have to run for their granddad’s boat. hundreds of new nuclear plants? emotionally, logically, we still live in the sodding stone age. pretty soon we may really be back in the caves. sorry to spoil your after dinner brandys mr emergency planning officer and state’s purchaser of french power.
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I have a simple solution to store nuclear waste safely and inexpensively, but cannot find any interest.
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