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Design and production by CSALT and CSEC, Lancaster University.

Recorded 20th November 2001 at Berkeley Nuclear Power Station UK. Processed & edited by Lancaster University Television Unit.. Riscom 2 would like to thank staff & colleagues at BNFL and Berkeley Nuclear Power Station for their support and assistance with this video interview.. All materials (c)2001 Riscom2


A quick tour of Berkeley Visitor's Centre
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Could you tell us who you are and a little about yourself?

41 sec

What does your work involve here at Berkeley?

58 sec

How is your expertise here in decommissioning a nuclear power station used elsewhere?

35 sec

Would it not be easier to just maybe throw the waste into the River Severn and send it out to sea?

51 sec

When I drove here I went through a small village. How do you work with the local community when you are decommissioning a nuclear power station?

35 sec

What kinds of radioactive waste are produced by this power station?

51 sec

In the tour you have some photographs of large water tanks. What were they used for?

52 sec

Berkeley was the first nuclear power station to be decommissioned in the UK. How long did this take and what did it involve?

89 sec

How open should we be in how we handle and what we do with radioactive waste?

119 sec

What was it your children said when they visited the power station?

34 sec

How do you think we should store radioactive materials?

69 sec

There are people and groups who say we shouldn't use nuclear power, we should close all nuclear power stations down, and we should store the radioactive waste on the surface where we can keep a close eye on it. What are your views on this?

102 sec

The audience watching this interview are mainly students and teenagers. If you had one message for them, what would that be?

46 sec