As I have said many times on this blog, nuclear waste is a terrible problem. There are millions of tons of nuclear waste around the globe. It will either have to be buried in the geological repositories under construction or recycled into new nuclear fuel. There are schemes to build special nuclear reactors that can directly burn nuclear waste.
I have blogged about the U.K. nuclear program in the past. The most recent such blogs have mostly been about the big Hinkley Point C project. The European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) was created by a treaty signed in 1957. It forms the basis for regulation of the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the European Union. A major current question confronting the U.K.
Ambient office = 116 nanosieverts per hour
China has horrible pollution problems. In some cities, the air is so polluted that it is like a thick fog. A great deal of this pollution is caused by the burning of coal. About seventy percent of China's electricity is currently generated by coal-fired power plants.
Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March of 2011, the Swiss were motivated to rethink their energy policy. The Swiss decided to phase out nuclear power, reduce energy consumption and concentrate on renewable sustainable energy sources. The first steps in this new direction were only approved by the Swiss Parliament this last September.
One of the greatest challenges facing the U.K. nuclear industry is the disposal of nuclear waste.
