New(clear) power stations

Chijj

Nothing like a bit of word play to start a thread.

Watching a report on bbc about the deal which will allow 2 chinese state owned companies along with a french company building a nuclear power plant in Hinkley

This got me thinking and i searched the proposed sites and quite a number are on the west UK coast.

Basically what i am asking is if there was a terror attack how long would we have to wait until it was acceptable to smash each others skulls in and feast on the goo inside?

FallSilently

Y'know at first I actually thought this was about glass power plants.

Ruu

Your word play is appalling! :mad:

Amirani

Depends which way the wind is blowing. Trade winds are southwesterly, in which case we may not be terribly affected (at least initially).

Chijj

Ruu wrote: »

Your word play is appalling! :mad:

Transcend to my level

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As there are already 8 on their West cost, with 2 South, 1 North and 4 East. It's nothing new.

Capt'n Midnight

Doesn't even have to be terrorists.

A repeat of the floods of 1607 would inundate them.

And when Chernoybl went up the wind was blowing this way. It's only three years since they lifted the radiation restrictions on Welsh Sheep.

Sir Osis of Liver.

I'd say we'd be fu(kishima)ucked.

biko

All will be well. As long as nothing bad happens of course.

The Randy Riverbeast

Everything will be fine. You should still have he iodine tablets.

Sir Osis of Liver.

The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »

Everything will be fine. You should still have he iodine tablets.

Still have mine in a press with my millennium candle, beside my tree certificate.

The_Valeyard

Atlantic winds are our friend. Norway is f*cked if it goes belly up

nullzero

It's pronounced nuke-lear, nuke-lear.

PirateShampoo

There are already 185 Nuclear power plants in Europe.

17 more in the planning stages, they need them and in the future Ireland will need them.

Harry Palmr

Ireland would be in the dark without them.

Rayne Wooney

Amirani wrote: »

Depends which way the wind is blowing. Trade winds are southwesterly, in which case we may not be terribly affected (at least initially).

So there's a good chance they'll hit Cork?



Excellent.

namloc1980

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

So there's a good chance they'll hit Cork?



Excellent.

You've got that arseways.

Rayne Wooney

namloc1980 wrote: »

You've got that arseways.

It looks like in my excitement I've made a boo boo, until next time Cork.

PirateShampoo

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

So there's a good chance they'll hit Cork?



Excellent.

Might even enhance the DNA pool down that way.

Vinculus

New clear dawn

KomradeBishop

nullzero wrote: »

It's pronounced nuke-lear, nuke-lear.

Ya well, we know how that one ends - always regarded as a spectacular tragedy.

KomradeBishop

Here's a good read on how reckless the UK have been with nuclear reactors in the past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

I doubt these new reactors are likely to be problematic though - but then, the nuc-u-lar energy industry is renowed for lying to the public, especially where it comes to risk estimates and such.

323

Nuclear power plant and Chinese build quality?
On our doorstep?

Very scary!

eeguy

323 wrote: »

Nuclear power plant and Chinese build quality?
On our doorstep?

Very scary!

Rank your build quality in order of preference:

Chinese
French
American

Capt'n Midnight

PirateShampoo wrote: »

There are already 185 Nuclear power plants in Europe.

17 more in the planning stages, they need them and in the future Ireland will need them.

LOL

keep dreaming.

They are white elephants. Their only use is for base load. And even then it's nearly as if they are just used to offset carbon from cheap coal.

Ireland couldn't accommodate a modern nuke.
Our minimum demand is roughly 2 GW. Only 1GW of that has to come from high inertia sources, the rest can come from renewables and interconectors. But modern nukes are in the 1.4-1.6GW range so too large, and besides we'd need the same again in spinning reserve to back up when (not if) the nuke goes offline because of SCRAM ,transformer or turbine problems, or jellyfish.




Hinkley is going to have two EPR's. Finland approved one in 2003, It's been pushed back many times, latest date is 2018 and of course waaaayyyy over budget. Late/never and over budget is normal for nuclear. And the new Hinkley needs double the wholesale rate index and it's linked for the rest of my life.

Wylfa is closing this year. (closest nuke to Dublin)
France is going from 75% nuclear to 50% in the next decade.
Sweden's Oskarshamn 1 and 2 reactor units to close

So for the foreseeable future more nukes will shutdown in Eu than startup.