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"Green" policies are destroying this country
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Back in the 1970s, there was such a plan backed by FF/FG governments of the time. Here is a photo of Petra Kelly at Carnsore in 1979. She was one of the founders of the German Green party in 1980. She did not bring that project down on her own, after that protest, the matter became "radioactive" for the Irish political establishment, politicians flipped. During the period on the 1980s there was also the campaign for nuclear disarmament (CND) and the matter of nuclear reprocessing in Sellafield, strangely in La Hague in France does not get a mention. There was Fianna Fail TD Joe Jacob and the iodine tablets, nuclear power generation was put to bed under a FF/PD coalition by the Electricity Regulation Act, 1999
Laws can be changed, it will be reconsidered should 4th generation nuclear reactors become feasible.
On the other hand, when ‘fourth generation’ nuclear reactors become commercially available, it is technically possible that smaller reactors could be accommodated on the Irish grid. source
The Republics population has grown by ~1.2 million people in 20 years to ~5.2 million people. Back in 1979 the population was around 3.3 million. 1990 was ~3.5 million. Based on projections by the last government in project Ireland 2040 there will be an extra 1.1 million on top of todays numbers. When you include Northern Ireland today that's over 7 million people being served by the electrical grid (Eirgrid + SONI). This is what electricity consumption looks like in that time.
This is just electricity consumption we're now topping 30 billion kilowatt hours per annum, in addition use primary energy sources for other essential purposes like food, heat and transport. In those graphs, realise the insanity of targeting 1990 carbon emission levels using wind turbines and solar panels, can't get there with that technology. A combination of rising population, spiraling energy prices and infrastructure bottlenecks must lead to rationing and blackouts. In the interim the country needs more gas generation, it needs the LNG terminal, Corrib gas is gone by the end of the decade, leaving only Moffat. Any way you cut it, nuclear, must be put on the table today, first the ghost of Carnsore must be exorcised from the body of Irish politics.Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.
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