Are we surprised that GreenPeace is lying about environmental issues again? This band of pirates and renegades has no credibility in scientific discussions. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore even argues that Greenpeace is motivated by politics rather than science and that none of the directors has any formal science education. And yet you consider Greenpeace to be a credible source for your article?

Something that all should be aware of is that nuclear waste can be easily "cleaned up" The Canadian Atomic Energy commission has certified that when radioactives are burned with "brown's gas" All or most of the radioactivity is neutralized. The Japanese and Canadians are well aware of this. The American AIC ignores it. Read up on Brown's Gas.

It is so sad that we are still spending money on ways to poison ourselves long into the future, Never in recorded history have the people on this planet been more sick ! Looks like people are too sick to care enough to say.... enough !!!! And open there heads to realize that if you keep doing the same things the same old way, nothing changes ..... Time to wake up and and save ourselves by doing some research into things considered out of the box, like cold water fisson, heat from water without all of the horrible side effects of nuclear energy. Testla Technology where is it ?????

This whole conversation is mute when you consider that this world has many clean options, as well as FREE ENERGY that has been supressed for many years.What is SCALER ENERGY ??? Do more than than be ignorant !! Look it up !! its only a few key strokes away !!

one company to make a profit selling clean electricity [joke] one company to provide the years of storage and the clean up [joke] both to make a profit for shareholders,[not a joke] the way forward is in the use of water,streams and rivers providing local power.tidal and wave to provide the grids.geo thermal both in homes and industry. but of course no energy firm or goverment want this.

I was a nuclear power plant lab tech and operator in the Navy and my brother has a Phd in Nuclear Eng. We both agree, they are dangerous, expensive and obsolete. And there is the waste problem, after over 50 years, we are no closer to a solution.

We need nuclear, we have needed it and needed to add to it for some time now, these anti nuke wackos have put our energy needs in jeopardy now. The anti nuke wackos are the same type who have put this country in its crisis it is now in.

From the posiva report (pg 137), where the reference to the factor of seven comes from:
"The results received from using the model have not been compared with experimental results, but the model is believed to overestimate the share of immediately released isotopes. The increase in the quantity of released iodine would still not lead to exceeding the dose limits in the case of canisters with manufacturing defect."
Further more, the factor of seven is associated with high-burnup fuel, at nearly twice the current burnups -- presumably a limiting, rather than realistic case.

Are we surprised to hear that the French are lying about nuclear power ?
They lied about the costs associated with the EPR in Finland, which is now over 50% over budget and over 3 years late. And a similar pattern is developing at EPR being built in France.
They lie that reprocessing at the Hague is actually solving the nuclear waste problem, when in the best case it is delaying the highest level wastes and certainly dramatically expanding the volume of wastes.
Who can blame them, of course, If you tell the truth about nuclear power, then no one would want to buy it. Which is of course the most important thing to the French.