Nuclear waste could power Britain | Science | The Observer

Okay, I'm a nuclear-power skeptic, but even I thought, when I first looked at this article, that if we have the stuff sitting there, it might be better to use it better. However, that was to reckon without this: "The Sellafield reprocessing plan would cost several billion pounds, a price that infuriates opponents of nuclear energy. 'There is no economic justification for this plan,' said Roger Higman, of Friends of the Earth. 'It would just be another massive subsidy for the nuclear industry. We should invest in renewables.'
Problem is still that it is uneconomic and presumably a better investment return comes from renewables. In addition the plutonium economy would involve yet further degradations to civil liberties. ID-cards and plutonium go together. One wonders whether there is a clue here to government agendas?
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