Really love the openness of these videos, its so nice to hear about the true challenges nuclear clean-up involves. The timescales are astounding from 2008 to now 2024 for the new hardware for this to be introduced from concept designs. Its great to see local talent, companies and younger generations getting involved.
I think I missed something, you are not doing reprocessing so the pools are filling up so you came up with a storage method that allows 50% more storage is that right? But what happens when it does fill up ie half the time of the original containers, where is all that stored fuel going?
I am pretty sure that the UK is still looking for a "final storage solution" as are all other countries that use nuclear power and that generate radioactive waste. But it's not easy to find the right spot, and for example, Germany has miserably failed when trying to store waste in an old salt mine ("Asse"). The search for a safe storage site (presumably safety requirements for tens of thousands of years) is a spicy task and will affect many many generations.
Need more ponds or capacity, shuffle more boxes etc for a few more decades. 10:58 . Can’t come out ponds as they don’t have the longer term store capacity and rate is too low. AGR fleet will get extended and extended so problem isn’t going away.
The UK will have to look for long-term solutions with storage caves underground, for example like Finland. Nobody will be able to store the waste in ponds for hundreds (short half-life products) or thousands of years. Some people hope that transmutation can solve the waste problem. But I highly doubt that transmutation will ever be a cost-effective and ecologically better solution to the problem.
@@cymbala6208 The UK does have a Geological Disposal programme, just not to the extent that we're actually building one :| Reprocessing and burning high-level waste makes some sense but it's cheaper to just store and dispose at the moment,
Really love the openness of these videos, its so nice to hear about the true challenges nuclear clean-up involves. The timescales are astounding from 2008 to now 2024 for the new hardware for this to be introduced from concept designs. Its great to see local talent, companies and younger generations getting involved.
Yeah, it requires a great set of skills to milk the money for as long as possible.
@@simsnqta alternative ? Here are some speedos go take care of pool 3
Well done everyone - excellent stuff!
Can't wait to visit, God Willing, this autumn to see the history and the future going on at the site.
I think I missed something, you are not doing reprocessing so the pools are filling up so you came up with a storage method that allows 50% more storage is that right? But what happens when it does fill up ie half the time of the original containers, where is all that stored fuel going?
I am pretty sure that the UK is still looking for a "final storage solution" as are all other countries that use nuclear power and that generate radioactive waste. But it's not easy to find the right spot, and for example, Germany has miserably failed when trying to store waste in an old salt mine ("Asse"). The search for a safe storage site (presumably safety requirements for tens of thousands of years) is a spicy task and will affect many many generations.
Is it really that difficult to build another pond?
Worries me they already assuming cases/contents will corroded based on time it’s will be in ponds. Needs x10 people and money to speed this up.
So the real question is what happens when their full
The AGRs that produce this type of spent fuel are coming to their end of life; so they will shut down before the pond is full.
Need more ponds or capacity, shuffle more boxes etc for a few more decades. 10:58 . Can’t come out ponds as they don’t have the longer term store capacity and rate is too low. AGR fleet will get extended and extended so problem isn’t going away.
The UK will have to look for long-term solutions with storage caves underground, for example like Finland. Nobody will be able to store the waste in ponds for hundreds (short half-life products) or thousands of years. Some people hope that transmutation can solve the waste problem. But I highly doubt that transmutation will ever be a cost-effective and ecologically better solution to the problem.
@@cymbala6208 The UK does have a Geological Disposal programme, just not to the extent that we're actually building one :| Reprocessing and burning high-level waste makes some sense but it's cheaper to just store and dispose at the moment,
@bearbin yes, I read about the geolocical research in the UK on a German website. It's always a long process.
Interesting to see pension payments to see how many have cancer
So glad our taxes aren't going to waste... Oh wait... 😂😂😂