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Originally Posted by w14
As I asked in one of my earlier posts, have you heard about breeder reactors?
Again, I wish you would read what I said. The words "half life" never left my fingertips. I said it is STABLE after fifty years, once vitrified.
And this is a problem because ...
Isn't your argument that we need to act to save the planet?
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Yes I have heard about breeders. The problem with using them is the same with using any traded fossil fuel. You are not really getting rid of the problem of having to pay for the fuel in the first place. Yes they might be more a lot more efficient but you still need the fuel; What do you think would happen if the supplier suddenly noticed that he was getting smaller and smaller orders?
Please tell me what you mean by stable? The element is still radioactive and will continue to decay. It is this procedure of decay that causes the health problems of radioactive poisoning.
And yes my argument is that we should save the planet. Producing more nuclear waste does nothing to help us achieve that goal, and nor does wasting £billions on subsidizing an already well established corporation. Do you think that if I had a company that was not doing so well, that the government would happily just give me a few billions? So why should they help BNFL?
Surely it makes a lot more sense to have used the billions wasted on BNFL to build renewable energy power stations? You know one day all the resources will be gone, and we will have nothing to keep us running, but there will be several EXTREMELY wealthy individuals rushing to move to Wales.