Yet the German government, for one, has been reluctant to spend money on reactors to burn Russian plutonium at a time when it aims to wind down Germany's own nuclear-power industry.

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Macdonald, who had been on a community work placement at the Ransomes Europark industrial estate, in Ipswich, tried to burn down a shop and flat above it in Great Yarmouth on 16 September.

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Have we summoned that effigy down the mountain to burn or has it been spared this time around?

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It takes a long time to grow and can burn down with a just touch of carelessness.

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"I don't think he really thought this through, and it ended up where he had to do something that was pretty wacky, which was burn down his house, " said Rubin.

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