Representation by Jeremy Raison
- Date submitted
- 30 September 2020
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- Members of the public/businesses
Nuclear waste can’t be recycled, lasts thousands of years (in Scotland they’re talking about having an action plan for Dounreay the very first phase of it which won’t kick in for three hundred years), the new reactor doesn’t actually work and IS dangerous (it’s the French govt’s last ditch attempt to keep their nuclear industry alive but they haven’t yet worked out how to stop the concrete shell from cracking, making it susceptible both to inward ingress of sea water - like Fukushima - and leaking radioactive waste into the land), it’s way more expensive than wind energy, wave energy, thermal energy and sun energy, none of which need to harm the planet. Scotland has days when all its energy is met by renewables and that’s with the UK govt refusing to subsidise the renewables industry with a fraction of the subsidy given to nuclear, and constantly changing the rules. We’re meant to be saving the planet not contributing to its destruction.