Fact is that the Dounreay facility was one of the UK's worst decisions. What with Monju disaster in Japan, using solid Plutonium fuel rods and Sodium coolant, what with radiation hazard and Plutonium's relatively unstable characteristics at criticality, it is a recipe for disaster. What should have been investigated was molten Plutonium salt reactors, but now it is too late. Some ill-informed political leaders at the time, and naive scientist just focused on pushing technology without considering decommissioning and nuclear waste, have lead to degradation of the environment at Dounreay with hot particles and a hugely expensive decommissioning task. In comparison, Danish politicians in year 1986 took a holistic approach and decided against nuclear power because of the nuclear waste issue and turned to wind turbines instead. Now renewables are much cheaper than nuclear, and without the nuclear waste problems. We have idiots in UK government promoting Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C that will turn into disaster projects. Hinkley Point C will have a major failure around year 2030 and will contaminate most of Somerset, just like Fukushima Dai'ichi accident has ruined Fukushima prefecture for next 100000 years; mark my words here, I have insights into the future.
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Fact is that the Dounreay facility was one of the UK's worst decisions. What with Monju disaster in Japan, using solid Plutonium fuel rods and Sodium coolant, what with radiation hazard and Plutonium's relatively unstable characteristics at criticality, it is a recipe for disaster. What should have been investigated was molten Plutonium salt reactors, but now it is too late. Some ill-informed political leaders at the time, and naive scientist just focused on pushing technology without considering decommissioning and nuclear waste, have lead to degradation of the environment at Dounreay with hot particles and a hugely expensive decommissioning task. In comparison, Danish politicians in year 1986 took a holistic approach and decided against nuclear power because of the nuclear waste issue and turned to wind turbines instead. Now renewables are much cheaper than nuclear, and without the nuclear waste problems. We have idiots in UK government promoting Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C that will turn into disaster projects. Hinkley Point C will have a major failure around year 2030 and will contaminate most of Somerset, just like Fukushima Dai'ichi accident has ruined Fukushima prefecture for next 100000 years; mark my words here, I have insights into the future.