By John Surrey
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In a sense, in opting for an international reactor system, one is also opting for international safety regulations which, as we have noted, are fluid. 5. State support In all countries with civil nuclear programmes the state has played a leading role in promoting the technology and 18 The Urban Transportation of Irradiated Fuel subsidising R & D on a scale accorded to no other 'infant' industry. Whereas in the US and Germany, the industry tends to blame its predicament on 'failure of political leadership', the problems clearly call for more than the type of political support which can be provided in most western democracies.
The first public manifestations of nuclear power were the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought to an end the second world war. Moreover, it was out of the wartime weapons programme that the civil nuclear power programme was born. That is the origin of the fear that many people have of all things nuclear. Some people imagine that if an accident befell a nuclear power station it would explode like an atomic bomb. It would not. Some people, no doubt, think the same of the transport of irradiated nuclear fuel.
Utilities and governments are increasingly likely to resist having to shoulder a mounting bill in order to protect an industry with limited prospects. 7. Irradiated fuel traffic With the exception of France, because of its large nuclear power programme since 1973, traffic in irradiated fuel is generally at a much lower level than expected 10 years ago and, Aims and Context 19 indeed, in the US there is virtually none at all. The main reasons arc the virtual collapse of reactor ordering since 1974, combined with unresolved problems at the back end of the fuel cycle- particularly the lack of major commercial reprocessing plants outside France (La Hague) and Britain (Sellafield) and the non-acceptance in some countries of proposed methods of indefinite storage of the 'high-level' radioactive waste returned from the reprocessing plant.