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La Puce · 19-01-2007, 11:31 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

wrote:
Nick Maclaren wrote:
| Use nuclear energy to generate electricity.

Perhaps. With the current bunch of bureaucrats in charge of safety,
especially long-term safety, I am not convinced.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

The French use nuclear energy Nick and I don't see any problems with
long term safety. IMHO, nuclear energy has to be the way forward.

Radioactive waste from a storage site at Soulaine in eastern France,
where containment problems were reported in recent weeks, could end up
in grapes used to make champagne as it penetrates into groundwater.
Water leakage had caused fissures in the site's storage cells, French
nuclear safety agency DGSNR said last month. Low-level radioactivity
has already been found in groundwater 10km from Champagne vineyards,
Greenpeace said. Once full, the Soulaine nuclear dump will be among the
world's biggest. The site accommodates waste from French energy
producers Electricite de France (EdF) and AREVA, taking in the output
of France's nuclear power stations that provide 90% of the country's
electricity.

But waste from abroad, including Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and
Japan, is also accepted and which is illegal under French law. Another
radioactive waste site is planned in the Champagne region at Bure, this
time for highest level radioactive waste. Problems with radioactivity
leaking into groundwater were also recently reported at the La Hague
nuclear waste site in Normandy, where dairy farmers felt the effects of
the contamination.

Wine producers in another famous French wine-growing region - the Rhone
valley -prevented the construction of a high level radioactive waste
storage site with protests over the contamination threat to their
vineyards.

As for England ... here is the list of another 12 shortlisted possible
waste site (out of the 252 already in England) .
Dounreay, Caithness, Scotland
Altnabreac, Caithness, Scotland
Fuday, Western Isles, Scotland
Sandray, Western Isles, Scotland
Offshore - West (serviced by Hunterston Port)
Bradwell, Essex
Potton Island, Essex
Killingholme, South Humberside
Offshore - East (serviced by Redcar Port)
Sellafield, Cumbria (two locations)
Stanford, Norfolk

If you don't want this to happen in your backyard - don't allow it in
someone else's. I say this, not Greenpeace ;o)