Great British Nuclear - UK's Push To Include Nuclear Energy

Tephnos said:
I will absolutely blame the Greens for making stupid and unelectable idealist policies that ensures they never get power. And their blanket anti-nuclear stance, even to fusion.
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ALSO, the government needs the power to push these projects ahead without the constant delays caused by legal challenges. To my mind, the people elected the government in to do a job and if they can't do that because of protestors then there is something badly wrong. I think this is why we haven't had an energy policy for the last forty years. Too many legal challenges to everything the government try to do.
 
I'm all for new nuclear, think the government should be doing everything they can to smooth the way for building new plants, which should include legal reforms to make the planning process quicker and making sure the regulator has a positive approach rather than simply being an obstacle.

Of course many governments over the years have made announcements about new nuclear and then things have gradually fizzled out in later years, but let's hope this time is different. Nuclear is safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly. Should be supplying at least our entire baseload imo.

The amount of waste produced is actually tiny relative to the amount of energy produced and with some political will behind a) R&D of new reactor technologies which can reuse waste or produce much less waste in the first place, which the Chinese are currently leading the way on and b) a long term storage solution for waste which won't be reused, it should be even less of a problem than it currently is

Arguments against nuclear based on past disasters don't properly consider a) the vast amount of energy produced safely by nuclear, meaning even taking historical accidents into account the energy:fatality ratio is very good and b) modern reactor designs are so far removed from designs like Chernobyl that it would be like arguing modern electric trains are unsafe based on the fact that hundreds of years ago steam engine boiler explosions killed lots of people.
 
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SPG said:
It's not where we are, it's another 10 years before nuclear hits it mark could be longer pending all the committees required etc etc.

So we should be upsetting the countryside and building more wind farms,solar and Welsh, Scottish mountain storage systems and push green energy 100% we also no longer have the skill base for nuclear mass scale.
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10 years? The govt's target is 2050! Onshore wind can be online in 4 years, 1 if you take out the red tape. But its not prestigious and frankly regarded as laughable no govt wants to boast about how many windfarms they have. Norway has huge investment in hydro and gets most of its power from that, its oil is sold for export 'cos its worth a bloody fortune right now, can't help but think they've got their priorities right but here christ no.

Of course many governments over the years have made announcements about new nuclear and then things have gradually fizzled out in later years, but let's hope this time is different. Nuclear is safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly. Should be supplying at least our entire baseload imo.
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Haha our govts change their minds more often than they change their underwear remember Boris and we were all going EV's and heat pumps? Thats all gone to the wall apparently and theres no way on earth there won't be a postponement to the 2030 ban on petrol cars there simply isn't the infrastructure to support it Labour will be in power in a year or two possibly with support from the Greens and we'll see just how long this policy lasts.
 
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Our government really is a joke. Can they actually get anything done? Waste untold £b on a high speed rail link we don't need to be high speed and don't get new nuclear plants built that we really do need.
 
MrRockliffe said:
What are your thoughts on nuclear energy? Are you excited to have extra limbs? Do you prefer climate change?
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I usually vote Green these days but disagree with their stance on Nuclear. It's true back in the old times before good old health and safety we were just playing around with it trying to figure it out and made some incredible mistakes along the way, but these days nuclear is pretty safe. Safer than coal. But it's harder to measure the effects of dirty emissions and deaths caused by that. But it's more per year than anything in nuclear energys entire history.

Although it might be expensive method of generating electricity, there's a few different modern designs that are much safer, smaller, scalable etc.

Even kids can run one.


Until we build a Dyson sphere.
 
Hybrids are still allowed anyway no - which seems to cover a multitude of environmental sins -
don't seem to have imposed european tax break point of phev 60mile battery autonomy, any mild hybrid technology will suffice ?

Colonel_Klinck said:
Can they actually get anything done? Waste untold £b on a high speed rail
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spending it on the likes of Jaguar too, versus modular reactors,
I'm surprised there has not yet been more kick-back on chinese involvement in edf reactor design, tik-tok is small game.
 
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