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The importance of facts in research: the IFR : Comments
By Ben Heard and Tom Keen, published 18/6/2012Nuclear technologies are a key to reducing carbon emissions, so let's understand how they really work.
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The point that the plutonium has to be dealt with is well made and a 'motherhood statement' - it's too dangerous to be left or even buried anywhere.
I'm willing to accept that a demonstration IFR be built - in a country that produces the plutonium and all of it should be dealt with there. No other country should ever be conned into taking this waste. If it works safely then that type should be built near the existing reactors that produce plutonium and no more conventional reactors should be built.
Cease any technology that produces more Pu, even if that means closing conventional reactors.
Nuclear may well be as 'low carbon' as solar thermal but it's far more polluting. Solar thermal costs will soon come down to below nuclear and there's no decommissioning or waste issues with it. I know which one I and for that matter the general populace would prefer.