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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 11:53 pm I'm not sure how much of a nuclear or gas power station is recyclable but it wouldn't surprise me if it were less.
Nuclear ones certainly are unbelievably costly to decommission. My older brother has spent the best part of his career at a single site on a decomm project.
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DefTrap wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:55 am
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 11:53 pm I'm not sure how much of a nuclear or gas power station is recyclable but it wouldn't surprise me if it were less.
Nuclear ones certainly are unbelievably costly to decommission. My older brother has spent the best part of his career at a single site on a decomm project.
Modern nuclear power stations are built and run with consideration given to “end of life.”

Not saying it isn’t still an issue, but there shouldn’t be so many nasty surprises!
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JackyJoll wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:17 am Modern nuclear power stations are built and run with consideration given to “end of life.”
Have any of the modern(ish) plants which give such consideration actually got to end of life yet? :D

It was the same when I worked on Subs, but all the while the old boats are just rusting away in Devonport and their spent fuel is in a pond in Cumbria waiting for someone to figure out what to do with it :lol:

I'm actually a big fan of Nuclear in many ways, but Jesus H Christ is it an expensive ball ache!
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Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:37 pm No surprise there...

No surprise with the disinformation campaign to pin the murders on a fictitious muslim illegal migrant. Personally I think all these right wing agitators on social media should be charged with inciting a riot.
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JamJar wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 11:54 am
Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:37 pm No surprise there...

No surprise with the disinformation campaign to pin the murders on a fictitious muslim illegal migrant. Personally I think all these right wing agitators on social media should be charged with inciting a riot.
You're misinformed. It kicked off last night as a man armed with a knife approached the vigil. Do you feel the same about left wing agitators? And what's fictitious about him? The Police have identified him as a Rwandan male who moved to Wales with his parents when he was one. Have the police got that wrong then? Do you know more than them?

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Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:07 pm
JamJar wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 11:54 am
Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:37 pm No surprise there...

No surprise with the disinformation campaign to pin the murders on a fictitious muslim illegal migrant. Personally I think all these right wing agitators on social media should be charged with inciting a riot.
You're misinformed. It kicked off last night as a man armed with a knife approached the vigil. Do you feel the same about left wing agitators? And what's fictitious about him? The Police have identified him as a Rwandan male who moved to Wales with his parents when he was one. Have the police got that wrong then? Do you know more than them?

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You're misinformed, according to the police it was EDL supporters that attacked the mosque and it was doubtful that they were locals.
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JamJar wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:31 pm]You're misinformed, according to the police it was EDL supporters that attacked the mosque and it was doubtful that they were locals.
All I can see is that politicians claimed that, like the Southend riot last night the police don't seem to have accused any group.
BBC wrote:Rioters were from out of town, says police chief
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Our colleagues on Radio 5 Live earlier spoke to the Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner, Emily Spurrell.

She says the rioters were from "out of town" - something local MP Patrick Hurley also said earlier.

"These individuals came into Southport, did not reflect the local population, and used the incident to incite violence and hatred, and it’s absolutely not something the people of Southport want or the families want," she says.

She adds: "My understanding from local people on the ground is that these were not local residents, these were individuals that came from out of town who had been stirred up online by the likes of the EDL [English Defence League], just looking for a fight."
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Made me laugh

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whatever your take on the goings on in Southport, this is inarguably very funny. Concussion, no bollocks and nicked tomorrow for rioting. Silly old twat.🤣 <a href="https://t.co/q9WPnAnqn0">pic.twitter.co ... </p>&mdash; Tom Latchem (@TomLatchem) <a href=" 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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It's bad form to laugh at another's misfortune, but... :lol:
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Nahhh fucking idiots need a dose of truncheon meat to the cranium.
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Gratuitous reporting at it's finest.
I have very little time for Price and surprised how little punishment she's had for repeated drink driving but how is this in the public interest?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cne4k0w1m1ko
BBC wrote:Warrant issued for Katie Price's arrest
She missed a court hearing over her bankruptsy for unpaid tax, whoop-de-do.
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In October last year, Ms Price said she was “fed up” with being threatened with legal action
Not sure sticking your fingers in your ears and going LALALA works for anyone other than Donald Trump love ;)
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I've thought about being a Pumpkin Kicker or a Geocash Stealler. But never a Tube Pusher.

"Tube Pusher found guilty of attempted murder."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnl0419eykjo
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I see the rascist halfwits have been out shouting at clouds again. Brilliant lads, well done. Dicks.
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dern wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:46 am I see the rascist halfwits have been out shouting at clouds again. Brilliant lads, well done. Dicks.
Didn't a bunch of them turn up in Southend? Probably 'geographically challenged'. :roll:
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dern wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:46 am I see the rascist halfwits have been out shouting at clouds again. Brilliant lads, well done. Dicks.
Someone will be along shortly to tell you they are not racists and the mooslims started it anyway
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Count Steer wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:55 am
dern wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:46 am I see the rascist halfwits have been out shouting at clouds again. Brilliant lads, well done. Dicks.
Didn't a bunch of them turn up in Southend? Probably 'geographically challenged'. :roll:
40 of them stood outside a holiday inn in Manchester where some asylum seekers were housed and shouted "we want our country back". It's a spectacular level of stupid.
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JamJar wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 10:01 am
dern wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:46 am I see the rascist halfwits have been out shouting at clouds again. Brilliant lads, well done. Dicks.
Someone will be along shortly to tell you they are not racists and the mooslims started it anyway
The EDL are clearly and obviously a racist, fascist right wing organisation with close links with (and a common number of members from) the National Front, BNP and white supremacist groups. They can call themselves the buttercup club if they like, it doesn't make any difference.
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Fark. Machetes in broad daylight.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn073gel8r0o

The UK really has gone to the dogs after all the shite this week.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 12:54 pm Fark. Machetes in broad daylight.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn073gel8r0o

The UK really has gone to the dogs after all the shite this week.
I really can't understand why, in these sorts of situations, onlookers don't think "I'm out of here!" - instead "Ooh - I'll stick around, get my phone and video it :) "
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