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Nuclear power in your back yard, yea or nea?

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  • 26-04-2010 11:24pm
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    johngalway
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    Hi folks,

    Posting this here to reach a wide audience compared to more specialised forums (no insult intended!).

    Just watching Frontline (I lie, not really paying attention, it's just on) and they're mentioning Nuclear power amongst other things. What I would like to find out is, how many people in Ireland would be prepared to accept a properly built, properly run, modern Nuclear power plant withing 25 miles of their home?

    On purpose I have not said, in Co. Galway, in Co. Wexford as a resident of Connemara, a plant in Wexford would have minimal impact on me here. So instead I say the plant is to be located within 25 miles of where you live, where ever that may be.

    Over to ye :)

    ATB,

    John

    Would you be prepared to accept a Nuclear power plant withing 25 miles of your home? 164 votes

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    Teferi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    Nah.


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    #3
    ScumLord
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    Of course! Haven't you read any comics, radioactive waste gives you awesome superpowers don't you know.


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    MaybeLogic
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    I'll go with the former head of Greenpeace on this one.


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    orourkeda
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    Yes.

    However, to say we lack expertise in the area may rank as an understatement.


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    alwaysadub
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    Would Homer Simpson be working in it?


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    sxt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭sxt


    johngalway wrote: »
    Hi folks,



    Just watching Frontline (I lie, not really paying attention, it's just on) and they're mentioning Nuclear power amongst other things. What I would like to find out is, how many people in Ireland would be prepared to accept a properly built, properly run, modern Nuclear power plant withing 25 miles of their home?

    The reality is...in this current economic climate...looking forward...not a chance Ireland will have a properly run, well built, Modern nuclear power station...in the for-seeable future...


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    starbelgrade
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    The government are already looking seriously into this & plan to advertise their wish to seek out suitable locations in tomorrow's newspapers, with the tagline..

    "Would you like to sell a field?"


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    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Up and atom.


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    Wibbs
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    Yes.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #11
    IvySlayer
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    I wouldn't mind, I still have my iodine tablets they sent!


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    Posy
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    Better check the sell by date on those in case..


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    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    Yep. A cheaper longer lasting resource. Also more importantly, will piss off the greens.


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    IvySlayer
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    Posy wrote: »
    Better check the sell by date on those in case..

    They don't degrade.


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    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind, I still have my iodine tablets they sent!

    They're out of date!!! :eek:


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    L.Jenkins
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    If they throw in some weapons grade plutonium and TNT, ratio 2:1 I have no problems. Otherwise, I don't want some three eyed children.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I wouldn't mind it being close.. As long as I can't see it, I don't care about it being beside me.
    Ye do realize that's steam that comes out the stacks? Not cancer.


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    seithon
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭seithon


    As long as it is a modern design, built properly and run correctly I'd have no problem living within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant.

    On the other hand I wouldn't want to be within 50 miles of a coal power plant.


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    #19
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Caco wrote: »
    They're out of date!!! :eek:

    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


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    starbelgrade
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    djhunter30 wrote: »
    I don't want some three eyed children.

    They'd be safer if they'd an eye in the back of their head.


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    RolandIRL
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    since it was discussed on the frontline, maybe pat kenny could give his field for the site for the nuclear plant :D


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    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind it being close.. As long as I can't see it, I don't care about it being beside me.
    Ye do realize that's steam that comes out the stacks? Not cancer.

    Don't you read the newspaper? everything gives you cancer.


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    TheZohanS
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    It's already in our back yard, Sellafield is closer to us than it is to London. And they're building another plant just north of Holyhead.


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    C1ancy
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    sure yeah safe nuff


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    concussion
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    Don't you read the newspaper? everything gives you cancer.


    The hydrocarbons present in newspaper ink gives you cancer.




    Probably...


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    McChubbin
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    Up and atom.

    Up and AT THEM!!!!:mad:


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    #27
    questionmark?
    Registered Users Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    예

    urs
    Kim Jong il


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    #28
    Lifelike
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    Let's just build them all in Iceland


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    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I'd be ok with it as long as it was of a safe, modern design.


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    starbelgrade
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    Lifelike wrote: »
    Let's just build them all in Iceland

    Or in one of Kerry Catona's bra cups.


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    spudmonkey17
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭spudmonkey17


    johngalway wrote: »
    Posting this here to reach a wide audience compared to more specialised forums

    You calling us fat?

    And after hours is "specialised". We have the art of talking sh1te down to a fine art. :pac:


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