howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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such a disapointment,was hoping for them to use for the better.jobs and tourisam for starters.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well lets look on the bright side, it will save on the electricity bill for the lighthouse and streetlighting as Dungeness as a whole will glow in the dark
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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there was a bit on meridian earlier and all seems to be a storm in an egg cup, the earliest anything could start is 2023.
besides shepway are having a consultation with their residents so that should put everyones mind at rest.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The place is a dump anyway.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It's a pity that Dungeness didn't get permission for a new nuclear plant, rather than storing waste.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes Roger is right there, it is a great shame that they didnt allow a new Nuclear facility there in the recent retructuring of the industry. KCC gave them their full support for that and a lot of lobbying was done...to no effect. I have a feeling this latest story is more about lobbying again, rather than a realistic approach to anything new. Terrible to see the job losses...even more importantly perhaps.. skills being lost.
KCC are completely against this new move.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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What is not apparent from the report on post No.1 is that waste would be travelling to this site from ALL OVER UK, by rail, not just for the waste produced at Dungeness.
This would involve a MASSIVE quantity.
A lot of the waste would be brought through London!
And the Romney Marsh is mostly below sea level.
Hundreds and hundreds of tons would be involved and the option surely has to remain that procedures must be put in place to retrieve and make safe all of the deposited radio active material, IF, in years to come - maybe hundred or more years from now the containment has deteriorated - which it will eventually do. It seems to be a horrifying prospect.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It will probably be coming by sea from near Europe too, so could come into Dover and travel onwards by rail.
There will be lots of scare stories coming out, so we must have all sorts of information first.
Roger
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Haven't seen the headlines on today's Herald -got to be a doomsday theme I reckon.
Never give up...
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Have to agree with Roger in a earlier post, a new nuclear power station would have been preferable to this time bomb. Much needed employment as well.
Audere est facere.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Roger - what I heard about the nuclear waste coming through London from all over UK was in details given on Radio Kent from a report, they did not mention the sea and did not mention coming from overseas, so I don't know.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The nuclear waste is a lot safer than the reactor itself, there is no risk of a meltdown or the raw material
Been nice knowing you :)
