At 18:00 10-7-01 -0400, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>Steve wrote:
> > "J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
> > The plant in Dodewaard was shut down for two reasons.
> > First, the SEP (Cooperation of Electricity-producing
> > Companies) didn't want to invest tens of millions of
> > guilders in it after the government announced it wanted
> > to get rid of nuclear energy.
>
>That leads to the next question: Why did the government
>decide it wanted to get rid of nuclear energy?
>
>I can guess one reason. It's probably very expensive to bury your poop in
>someone elses yard, and I'll bet the Netherlands has no good place in
>their own yard.
We don't have a place to bury nuclear waste ourselves, but that wasn't the
reason (we shipped it to Sellafield (UK) for whatever it is they do with
nuclear waste there). The reason was related to it, though: our then
Minister for the Environment didn't want nuclear power because he didn't
believe there was a safe way to dispose of nuclear waste.
Jeroen
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