{"id":486,"date":"2005-05-11T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/britains-nuclear-future\/"},"modified":"2005-05-11T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T12:12:00","slug":"britains-nuclear-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/britains-nuclear-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s nuclear future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that ex-CND member Tony Blair seems to be making noises about getting hold of more nuclear weapons and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=4535578\">building more nuclear power-plants<\/a>, I&#8217;m quite surprised that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,3604,1479483,00.html\">this little bit of news<\/a> hasn&#8217;t had more airtime:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel dissolved in concentrated nitric acid, enough to half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool, has forced the closure of Sellafield&#8217;s Thorp reprocessing plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The highly dangerous mixture, containing about 20 tonnes of uranium and plutonium fuel, has leaked through a fractured pipe into a huge stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive that it is impossible to enter.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christ&#8230; I mean, I&#8217;m all for having loads of nuclear power stations (efficiency, less pollution, potential to turn us all into superheroes etc.), but, erm&#8230; might it not be a good idea to make sure that our current ones are up to speed before we start pissing about with any more? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/4531209.stm\">Maybe we should be asking Iran for some pointers&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that ex-CND member Tony Blair seems to be making noises about getting hold of more nuclear weapons and building more nuclear power-plants, I&#8217;m quite surprised that this little bit of news hasn&#8217;t had more airtime: &#8220;A leak of highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/britains-nuclear-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}