Professor Philip Walton:

On the subject of waste, one has to look at what would happen if we were to use coal as an alternative. At Moneypoint the burning of coal emits about 5 million tonnes of CO2. The nuclear industry manages its waste. It is small in volume. I do not have a great problem with its being buried in very deep mines. Even though the Moneypoint plant is scrubbed regularly and new scrubbers have been installed at a cost of €3 million, it still emits tens of thousands of tonnes of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. It is spewing its waste out while the nuclear industry is managing it.