#nuclear storage

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COMING SOON! Abandoned Nuclear Storage.

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Cuts threaten safety at Ministry of Defence sites, warns report

Defence Environment and Safety Board warns that austerity will 'undoubtedly place a severe strain on systems'

The report warns: "It will become increasingly difficult to maintain that the defence nuclear programmes are being managed with due regard for the protection of the workforce, the public and the environment", noting the principal threats to safety in the medium term "are the adequacy of resources… and the maintenance of a sustainable cadre of suitably competent staff". "A private company would never be able to get away with such a poor safety performance as that shown by the Ministry of Defence," said Peter Burt, of the Nuclear Information Service, which is opposed to nuclear weapons. The report also says much of the military's fuels storage infrastructure must be classed as high risk, because it "is beyond its designated life" and "falls below current legislative requirements in key areas".

http://m.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/12/cuts-threaten-safety-at-ministry-of-defence-sites?cat=politics&type=article

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It's important not to talk to citizens like a nuclear engineer, she adds, but like a person. It's important not to lecture them from a podium in a municipal building, she continues, but in their homes over coffee and cake and in places where people don't feel intimidated or afraid to ask potentially embarrassing questions. "The community determines how quickly we move forward," Laârouchi Engström says. "We don't."

The Nuclear Sell: Why One Swedish Town Welcomes a Waste Dump - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Diplomacy, transparency, and an open dialogue can make pretty much anything possible, it seems.

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Into eternity (2010, Michael Madsen)