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Originally Posted by Bagor
Don't know if I can agree with that using Sellafield in the UK as a case example. The Irish and Norwegian governments have had as their policy for quite a while now to seek the closing of the plant due to waste drifting along their coastlines.
Granted Sellafield is an old plant and now a processing plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield |
I meant in general... it's not part of the normal practice of a nuclear plant to discharge waste into the environment, unlike burning fossil fuels. Human error can fail to react to problems, but that's my point is if we'd been working on engineering better reactors for the past 50 years we'd be much further ahead with safer reactors and better rules and processes.