Government say YES to Nuclear Powerplants - How long before they lose the plutonium?

[Gimpymoo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7179579.stm

With their current track record, can they be trusted not to lose any plutonium?

I appreciate the need for more power, but why not invest in renewable energies?

If this is still their opinion come the next election then my vote will be going else where.

 

[Haiku]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17826699

 

[Tefal]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7179579.stm

With their current track record, can they be trusted not to lose any plutonium?

I appreciate the need for more power, but why not invest in renewable energies?

If this is still their opinion come the next election then my vote will be going else where.

renewable energies would produce less and indium for solar panels is running low at the moment.

and we've never lost uranium or plutonium in the past.

Also most of the fuel for nuclear power comes from decommissioned nuclear weapons, as proposed under the START agrements..

 

[Geffen]

The comparison with losing data CD is bit stretched. The CD were sent in the governments internal post and got lost along the way. While if you want to send plutonium anywhere the Governments policy is that you have to use special deliver. With special deliver you can tract the item online so it won't get lost and if that doesn't work just look the part of the country that has a strange glow and with a higher than normal unexplained death rate.

 

[Chaosboss]

The comparison with losing data CD is bit stretched. The CD were sent in the governments internal post and got lost along the way. While if you want to send plutonium anywhere the Governments policy is that you have to use special deliver. With special deliver you can tract the item online so it won't get lost and if that doesn't work just look the part of the country that has a strange glow and with a higher than normal unexplained death rate.

lol to that!

 

[sbi5ar]

The comparison with losing data CD is bit stretched. The CD were sent in the governments internal post and got lost along the way. While if you want to send plutonium anywhere the Governments policy is that you have to use special deliver. With special deliver you can tract the item online so it won't get lost and if that doesn't work just look the part of the country that has a strange glow and with a higher than normal unexplained death rate.

online tracking of plutonium.... its the future!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jono]

And of course all the couriers would be easily identifiable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwlwn-dE2Jw

 

[pyro]

The comparison with losing data CD is bit stretched. The CD were sent in the governments internal post and got lost along the way. While if you want to send plutonium anywhere the Governments policy is that you have to use special deliver. With special deliver you can tract the item online so it won't get lost and if that doesn't work just look the part of the country that has a strange glow and with a higher than normal unexplained death rate.

Your plutonium is at your doorstep!

 

[do_ron_ron]

renewable energies would produce less and indium for solar panels is running low at the moment.

and we've never lost uranium or plutonium in the past.

What was the news that they lost over 2lb of the stuff a couple of years back? More uranium/plotonium - the greater the chance of larger amounts being lost. Let private industry do it and it will end up in a dump in an African country(like the PCB's)

 

[MookJong]

I'm pretty cynical when it comes to this government but the idea they would loose the plutonium is just lazy pub banter.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

The comparison with losing data CD is bit stretched. The CD were sent in the governments internal post and got lost along the way. While if you want to send plutonium anywhere the Governments policy is that you have to use special deliver. With special deliver you can tract the item online so it won't get lost and if that doesn't work just look the part of the country that has a strange glow and with a higher than normal unexplained death rate.

..but will they leave "attempted delivery" card

 

[Tefal]

What was the news that they lost over 2lb of the stuff a couple of years back? More uranium/plotonium - the greater the chance of larger amounts being lost. Let private industry do it and it will end up in a dump in an African country(like the PCB's)

they didn't lose it as in off the back of a lorry there was just a discrepancy between the calculated amount they should get from waste and the amount they actually got.

 

[dannyjo22]

What I dont get is they say Gas is running out and getting too expensive and that nuclear energy is the way forward for cheaper energy.

Why then are we still fitting gas central heating to houses?

How are we going to convert 50 million houses to a form of electrical heating?

 

[Tefal]

What I dont get is they say Gas is running out and getting too expensive and that nuclear energy is the way forward for cheaper energy.

Why then are we still fitting gas central heating to houses?

How are we going to convert 50 million houses to a form of electrical heating?

use an electric boiler to heat the water instead?

 

[Schnippzle]

What I dont get is they say Gas is running out and getting too expensive and that nuclear energy is the way forward for cheaper energy.

Why then are we still fitting gas central heating to houses?

How are we going to convert 50 million houses to a form of electrical heating?

Because British Gas and which ever other companies that supply the gas are certainly not going to stand for the cost, and most of the consumers who do have gas boilers either dont care, dont know about the needed change or cant afford it.

 

[Muffin`]

What I dont get is they say Gas is running out and getting too expensive and that nuclear energy is the way forward for cheaper energy.

Why then are we still fitting gas central heating to houses?

Theres still a lot of money to be made, there is enough Gas to last many many years, but it will come from Russia, which relations at the moment, aren't brilliant.

If no wars or sanctions happen we could be all sold Gas till 2015, when the Nuclear plants will be up and running and we can remove our dependence.

 

[Combat squirrel]

As said in the other thread its annoying how people just dont understand how nuclear power works, and what are you going on about posting plutonium ? dear oh dear.

Nuclear power is one of the safest sources of energy in the world, Fact.

 

[Clinkz]

Theres still a lot of money to be made, there is enough Gas to last many many years, but it will come from Russia, which relations at the moment, aren't brilliant.

If no wars or sanctions happen we could be all sold Gas till 2015, when the Nuclear plants will be up and running and we can remove our dependence.

Surely this will merely transfer our dependence from one fuel source to another. As far as im aware, stocks of nuclear fuels are far from plentiful and there is only something like a 40 years worth supply.

 

[Tefal]

As said in the other thread its annoying how people just dont understand how nuclear power works, and what are you going on about posting plutonium ?

Nuclear power is one of the safest sources of energy in the world, Fact.

You ever see the tests they put the transport container through?

There's some great videos of them running multi carriage trains at high speed into them, without them even cracking.

 

[Tefal]

Surely this will merely transfer our dependence from one fuel source to another. As far as im aware, stocks of nuclear fuels are far from plentiful and there is only something like a 40 years worth supply.

what where did you hear that bs?