International experts agree that
there will continue to be disastrous failures at nuclear power stations and
that this cannot be avoided 2 .
As Edward Teller, the great nuclear physicist, said, 'If you [try to] construct something foolproof, there will always be a fool greater than the proof,'
Nuclear power
stations are prohibitively expensive
Nuclear power stations are so expensive that they are never built without substantial contribution to their costs from citizens in the form of subsidies.
The UK government has said it will not subsidies new nuclear power stations. However this seems to refer to the most overt form of subsidies and not to "hidden " subsidies.
Nuclear power stations are so dangerous that no insurance company will undertake to pay the total costs of a disaster or a terrorist attack. So in order to get them built the government has to limit liability. This is a subsidy.
The cost of decommissioning will be an enormous sum and the final total is unknown.
Any limitation to liability for decommissioning costs will be a subsidy. If the industry does not pay the total costs of disposing of nuclear waste and ensuring it is safe for thousand of years then this is a subsidy. The industry does not pay the total costs of all research into nuclear energy .This is a subsidy.
Nuclear power stations
use the same technology as that required to manufacture nuclear weapons
Any country which purifies uranium for use in nuclear power stations can also use its purification plant to manufacture weapons grade fissile material.
Already nuclear power development has been used repeatedly as a cover for developing nuclear weapons. Of the 10 nations which have developed nuclear weapons "six did so with political cover and/or technical support from their supposedly peaceful nuclear program -- India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa, North Korea and France' 3 .
The resulting nuclear
waste will be dangerous for thousands for years
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