Bit of a depressing one, this. All the talk there’s been of late about green energy, renewables, and whatnot must have been making me see through green-tinted spectacles. I genuinely was convinced that the kind of thing I’m about to mention had no place in the 21st century. But anyway – the Lake District has been mooted as an ideal place for the underground disposal of nuclear waste.
I’d always wondered why they didn’t just fire nuclear waste into space. Space could cope. Space could deal with it. Space is tough. But no, the reason we can’t send it out into the final frontier is because there’s the risk of rocket malfunction and it could go back to earth. Also, rockets couldn’t carry a lot of the waste, so there would need to be a constant stream of launches.
So, the Lake District it is, then. My enthusiasm for renewables has just experienced a sudden recharge.
