UK nuclear plans 'put energy in French hands'Government plans for nuclear power risk
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Well that's no suprise and quite unavoidable. We need a new generation nuclear industry and in the UK we just don't have the talent needed because we as a nation got scared of the nuclear boggy man. The French on the other hand embraced nuclear and carried on building/refining the technology after Chernobyl. So when it comes to looking for a knowledgeable partner to help bring new reactors online who better to look at then one of very few world leaders in the tech who just happen to bee only 30 miles across the channel.
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Germany are actually getting rid of their nuclear power stations. I bet the French will hand them back to the UK when they need decomissioning, so the French make the profits, and then we have to pay out. |
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Thanks to decades of short termism and political dithering we're now in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to energy supplies. I dislike the thought of our nuclear power generating capacity being provided by a foreign power but it seems we have no choice. Developing our own industry to the required levels now would take many years, by which time it'd probably be too late. The way energy prices are rising, it may even already be too late for us to avoid significant problems as a result of shortages and a lack of generating capacity. One thing seems certain, if we don't do something very significant about this problem soon the lights are going to start going out in the not too distant future and recent price rises will seem trivial.
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It's actually quite funny that people believed the government when they said the radiation from Chernobyl had contaminated sheep and cattle in Cumbria...news to everyone, that leak came from Sellafield (which used to be called Windscale, until it got such a bad name due to leaks). It was just very convenient for the government that a nuclear power station had just blown up in Russia, so they could blame it instead. |
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Carbon may be slightly radioactive, but doesn't even come close. So the facts are that waste from a nuclear power station that is 100% sealed gives off less radiation than the carbon from a coal fired power station...well it doesn't take a scientist to work that out, because the carbon isn't sealed. The many leaks of radiation that have taken place over the years in the UK, have not been from radioactive waste, then have been from the plants themselves. |
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There are is also wave power, and hydroelectric. |
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The problem with a nuclear fix is that it's a short term solution, as i do remember reading that there's only so much of the right plutonium available on the planet.
The amounts available were such that there was probably only enough to last about 30 years, and given how many countries are also seeing it as viable alternative to fossil fuels right now, that number could be getting shorter. |
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