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People can stick their heads in the contaminated Dounreay sand and they can throw public subsidy at the nuclear industry that the renewables sector would die for, but they cannot ignore the laws of physics.
The smaller someone's pension, the earlier they die. That is just not acceptable. Unfortunately, that means that because of the rights in Jack McConnell's pension scheme, he is likely to live as long as Methuselah.
There might be a human rights issue over a disqualification sine die, just as the human rights issue of imprisonment without fixed time limit is being tested in Europe.
As a backstop to that, we then have to ensure that the inquiry process is adequately resourced, so that if people do not feel that their point or solution has been properly investigated at the first stage, there is another opportunity during the independent inquiry. We could die of paralysis by analysis: how many stages do we want?
Might the problems at the beginning—with people asking for a recall because they did not understand the undertaking—die down when people become more aware of the system?
There is no doubt that marine and bird-life will be affected and will die. Scapa Flow has been ruled out for financial reasons because it costs more to discharge ballast 100 miles out at sea.