Electric vehicles

[Dave Wortley]

Nuclear power is not the solution to energy needs in my opinion. We talk of climate change and the future for our grandchildren and their grandchildren but little consideration appears to be given to the decommissioning and disposal of the various degrees of radioactive waste. I was involved in a BNFL project in the mid eighties which is now undergoing decommissioning, only thirty-odd years after it was constructed. This equipment in itself was for processing and disposing by vitrification and deep underground burial in the Lake District ( of all places!)of nuclear waste brought to Britain from Japan and other countries. Tonnes of radioactive equipment to be somehow shoved out of the way for millennia, buried deep underground. Surely this is very irresponsible of our generation, an awful legacy to be dealt with. No solution has yet been found. Nuclear power is an incidental byproduct of the race for nuclear weaponry in the first instance. Who remembers Calder Hall, now Sellafield?