Thursday February 4, 2010, 5:12 am
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Thank you Naoko !

Thursday February 4, 2010, 5:51 am
One of the storage plans for low level waste was to utilise spent oil fields near my home. That plan has been shelved and the government are now planning to use the the enormous undergroun caverns to store natural gas to offset peek demand in winter. My county is the government disignated dustbin for all things unpleasent from nuclear waste to unsightly higly subsidised wind turbines that only generate when the wind is blowing and now for gas storage. Reason; as an agricultural county the population is mainly animals and fields full of crops with a relatively low human population so the people vote is not likely to keep them out of government! Now if the cows and grain crops were given a vote they would not last a minute! When the ground has become so polluted that cows cannot graze it and crops will not grow on it then perhaps they will get the message, sadly it will then be too late. As well as being the bread basket of the UK the county is also the energy conduit with a large oil refinery in the north of the county and the North Sea Gas terminal on the coast plus dozens of wind turbines built or planned, not for the benefit of the county but those who are energy junkies elsewhere in the country like the corridors of power in London!

Thursday February 4, 2010, 12:16 pm
Noted Naoko

Thursday February 4, 2010, 2:30 pm
I applaud their efforts in reprocessing spent uranium rods to be further utilized, but the article erroneously stated radioactive waste can last hundreds of years, it's actually thousands of years.

To transport and store this waste is a concern of the inevitable happening...a spill contaminating a populated area or the seas during transport, a storage leak or a terrorist act.

At least reprocessing minimizes storage quantity...

Friday February 5, 2010, 8:08 am
Noted.