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| By Chris McKenna via Wikimedia Commons |
Cast your mind back to January 2008. The SNP had been in power for less than a year, and a bizarre political spat erupted. The Scottish Government decided that, instead of sending our nuclear waste to England, we would instead keep it in this country.
Quite what they were planning to do with it was never revealed, but evidently they've since had a change of heart as they are not standing in the way of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority taking all the leftover waste from Dounreay to Sellafield in England. By train.
Are trains more secure and safe than transporting the material by road? Given the industry I work in, I'd say yes, with a huge "but" hanging over the answer. One accident with a nuclear train (not uncommon) has the potential to be more catastrophic than one accident with one lorry, despite the best attempts by British Rail to reassure us as you can see in the video below.
I have no answer to the problem of nuclear waste. Which is not surprising, given that the experts have no answer either. Taking it to one repository at Sellafield seems as good a solution as any, by whatever means. I just don't like it.
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