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We must count the real costs of nuclear power

Letter: Your author, in his enthusiasm to highlight the cheaper costs to
build new nuclear plants, failed to include the ever-increasing costs of
decommissioning nuclear plants at the end of their working life. This must
be included in any comparison of costs. He also failed to mention the
problems of vast amounts of highly dangerous radioactive nuclear waste and
accidents, freak weather – such as the tsunamis causing radioactive leaks
in Japan – and potential terrorist attacks. Nuclear may not cause
atmospheric carbon waste but it does create hugely toxic radioactive waste
that remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. A problem that
threatens the health of all life.

 Guardian 9th July 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/09/we-must-count-the-real-costs-of-nuclear-power

July 13, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | wastes