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What do you say to the enormous hidden costs of decommissioning nuclear: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantl...

Are these only an issue for legacy sites and not so much for new builds?

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I would say that the Sellafield plant has a huge amount of nuclear waste that the UK has to deal with from nuclear weapons development and early power station decommissioning, and that modern nuclear power stations do produce waste but at considerably lower quantities than we already need to deal with, to the point that it’s basically a rounding error.

That's good news at least

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