If sellafield were to go..

Tellox

What would happen to Ireland? Would we die of Nuclear winter after hours, months or years?... christ I wish they'd do us the world of favours and shut that bloody place down.. just been looking over some pics from the chernobyle disaster, and they're stomach churning; (warning, do not click any of these links if you dont handle disturbing pictures well)
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as you can see its not a pretty sight at all..

oeNeo

I totally agree that they should shut it down as soon as possible. What's the British governments arguement to keep it open?

(those pics are pretty damn disturbing indeed)

Doodee

omg, im rweally pissed, just after getting with a burd in charlie p's, and omg, theres another here in eustatce street, that ive wanted ever

omg, that was close, she came over and i closed the windie in time

im so wasted, omg,
and i got with this burd called emma, omg!

and her friend who was with my mate was callinmg her a slut, and i said no, and i just found out the burd who i just stopped from reading this is a dancer in a strip joint, omg!
RAR!, im just about drunk enough to type, and she tasted my food, omg! and she eating eclair seductivly, omg!
and i just realised i say omg alot....I cant decide, and older burd who works in a strip joint, or emma...which?

there also this burd named tanya, but shes with a friends mate, i cant go with her, omg!

im so wasted

l3rian

omg doodee

I am pro nuclear power, and dont think sellafield should be closed

The chernobyle disaster was more an example of what happens when resourses are not made available for maintenance and safety, by a corrupt and immoral government

daveirl

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Lemming

If sellafield goes in what way?

A terrorist strike on a low-grade storage 'shed': A large bit of england, scotland and wales, plus the north (oh well ... not too bad then) all the way down to El Paso (Dundalk) I think.

A strike on a medium-grade storage 'shed': the UK, Ireland, and part of France

A strike on a high-grade (think weapons grade) storage 'shed': most of Northern Europe.

A meltdown: Probably something similiar to the low-grade scenario only not as bad. Ireland's prevailing south-westerly winds would save us from the worst of it. England and the norse countries would get the brunt of any "toxic cloud".

Note: All of the above is to the best of my knowledge and not 100% quantified fact

Typedef

Originally posted by daveirl
Me, I'm a big fan of well run nuclear power stations.

Like Three Mile Island [] perhaps?

I'll agree that Sellafied isn't the best run facility on the planet, but Nuclear isn't all that bad

With all due respect that is utter nonesense. The recent hoo ha about bringing Nuclear Fuels back from Japan to THORP, was necessary, because the Japanese refused to use the fuel, due to the fact the British had falsifyed records pertaining to the fuel.

If one takes such omissions as standard in Sellafield, I, for one would (a) never trust a safety report from the place and (b) not live within 100 miles of the place if I could.

In 1957 the then Windscale (now Sellafield) reactor had a fire
http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/nuclear/sellafield/wp_5-2001/21871.html

Prime Minister Macmillan put a lid on all information concerning the accident. The Prime Minister feared that the accident reports, in drawing attention to an earlier accident in 1952, as well as suggesting that the 1957 accident was a result of operational failure and unsatisfactory instruments, would impair the people’s confidence in the nuclear energy programme, and furthermore delay the development of British nuclear weapons

So you see, the Sellafield plant is an afterthought, that has little or no actual economic uses, it was primarily built to facilitate British Nuclear weapon aspirations, nothing more.

Similarly THORP has little or no acutal economic value to the British
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/491/4874.html

A new study commissioned by the Nuclear Free Local Authorities is questioning Sellafield's THORP reprocessing economics. The study shows that in a "Prudent" case, using risk-averse assumptions, THORP could lose £2 million per week. What follows is an executive summary of the report, published May 4.

So why build the damned place? It is yet another debacle surrounding Sellafield, which is ironic, since the entire existance of Sellafield itself is a debacle, in terms of people's health and 'actual' energy requirements of the UK, but, that point is evident.

daveirl

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kamobe

I am pro nuclear power, and dont think sellafield should be closed

If they stop polluting our sea, and stop falsifying records, and an independent survey declares it completly safe, then I'll be happy.

Would Britian tolerate us dropping waste into their waters?

daveirl

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Tellox

I dont have a fear of a regular meltdown, my fear is of a terrorist attack..

Woden

i'm in favour of well run plants as well and think that people's fear of nuclear power is unwarranted and due to the fact that they don't understand it. the word nuclear frighten's them. For example, in hosipitals people get MRI scans, not NMRI scans just coz the word nuclear scares them its pathetic. if the plants blows the plants blows, its in there country let them worry about it. you don't see all the local english people freaking out and there must be people living closer to it then dundalk. I wonder will happen when fusion is viable oh not not another form of nuclear power it must be terrible etc etc end rant.

Sangre

Well Im pro nuclear, imagine if we had to use fossil fuels instead of all that nuclear generated power. I saw some stats a bit back and the amount of fossil fuels saved is amazing. Think of all that extra global warming.

mike65

I shocked! :eek:

Boards.ie members are expressing thier belife in EVIL nulcear power!

You are all a disgrace to the ppl of eire and all it stands for!

Mike.

ps yes I'm being sarcastic

Remember with interconnectors the Irish are already using nuclear power, just indirectly...

Mike.

daveirl

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Drunk pirate

Erm...sellafield aint all that bad...what about fusion? Are they still discusing it?