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Nuclear Waste Deposition and Disposal
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The problems of safe storage and disposal of radioactive waste were fully considered and laid before Parliament more than twenty years ago. Solutions worked out at that time have since been implemented without leading to any serious safety problems. Despite the steady advance in handling technology, there remains a serious problem of misrepresentation by anti-nuclear organisations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the Sustainable Development Commission. One reason for their prominence in the public debate is possibly the degradation of education standards in the UK. The lay public are ill-prepared to judge issues needing at least a moderate working knowledge of sciences like physics and chemistry because, in increasing numbers of schools, these subjects do not even find a place in the curriculum. The public are consequently poorly equipped to judge whether there is a real problem with existing long-term storage of radioactive waste - which is why the Joan Pye Project has drawn attention to these ongoing developments, and to the promise which they show of being wholly successful.

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