Hidden fears over Britain's nuclear plants

This disturbing report, straight after Tony Blair gave his personal support to nuke power, has to put a further question mark against the idea.

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In fact it reminds me of another set of reasons to be fearful. The disposal [read long-term storage, 'long-term' as in 250,000 years] of the spent fuel and related substances requires geological stability in low lying usually coastal regions. These are just the kinds of regions likely to be affected by flooding due to global warming. And in any case the effects of global warming on geology are difficult to determine but likely to be non trivial in at least some cases. Nukes are not a good idea in a time of climate change; the time-scales are huge and we just cannot know that there will be a safe storage for that long in a changing climate. Moral irresponsibility would be one word for it - well, two.

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