Nuclear plant clean-up bill hits £62.7bn (UK)

jpak

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Thu Mar-30-06 03:55 PM
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Nuclear plant clean-up bill hits £62.7bn (UK)

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=491832006

THE estimated cost of cleaning up Britain's ageing nuclear power plants has risen by £6.7 billion to £62.7 billion according to figures released today.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has revealed its strategy for cleaning up the UK's 20 civil nuclear sites, which includes Dounreay in Caithness, and Hunterston A in Ayrshire.

The agency had previously estimated the bill at £56 billion but the cost of cleaning up Sellafield in Cumbira is thought to have pushed costs up.

The NDA review identified a further £7.5 billion may be needed for further work but the full costs of clean-up are set to be established by 2008.

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jpak

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Thu Mar-30-06 04:59 PM
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1. This is ~109 billion in "real money"

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Thu Mar-30-06 05:17 PM
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2. Euros, you mean?

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phantom power

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Thu Mar-30-06 05:19 PM
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3. Gold and silver. Yarrrrr.

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Thu Mar-30-06 05:29 PM
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4. Obscure trivia #45,653

The UK pound - aka pound sterling - was originally defined as the value of 1 troy pound of sterling silver. A pound of sterling today cost 75.6 pounds sterling.

Bet you didn't know that you didn't know that. :silly:

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phantom power

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Thu Mar-30-06 05:31 PM
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5. But why did they start calling it a "quid?"

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Dead_Parrot

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Thu Mar-30-06 05:46 PM
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6. Beats me

Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 06:21 PM by Dead_Parrot

:shrug: I'll have to dig out my copy of Brewster's Phrase & Fable from the garage...

Edit: The Guardian to the rescue...

Either:

...Gaelic-speaking Irishmen in the British Army would refer to "my money" as "mo chuid": "cuid"(pronounced, very roughly, "quid")...

Or

...Perhaps as in quid pro quo. Just as notes offer the statement "promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum" thereby indicating that they are not really worth anything except that they may be "cashed" in...

Both seem plausible. :)

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BeFree

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Thu Mar-30-06 08:47 PM
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7. Did you ever notice....

...that since we have so many nuclear plants giving off heat to the atmospere, radiated heat, at that, that the climate has really warmed in the last 30 years?

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