Nearly 40 years ago, on a PR trip to Windscale nuclear power station, we were assured that within the next few years a permanent solution would be found for waste disposal. I'm still waiting to hear the details. This is one of the reasons I was absolutely flabbergasted by your graph claiming nuclear to be the cheapest method for electricity generation (17 July, p 6).
The apparent discrepancy is presumably justified by the sentence, "Many economists argue that the environmental costs of fossil fuels and nuclear energy should be factored into their price, but there is no agreed way to do this." That's OK then. Let's just ignore the true cost of all the future problems, some of which are touched on in the same issue (plutonium on page 12, and those for coal on page 16).
When you've finished with a wind turbine, you can dismantle it and ...
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