10 May 2004

Suspicious dealing on nuclear waste

At least supicious to me: when I first read about this I was wondering whetehr it was a way for the nuclear power industry to wriggle out of the cost implications of disposal, and I'm not convinced yet that this isn't partly what it's about. Given the way that policy is increasingly cost-sensitive, anything that messes with the cost of ... oh let's say, nuclear generation of electricity by not including in it the decommissioning and waste disposal costs, makes it more likely that it will be seen as a viable option ... paranoid? who me?

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