Nuclear - future for Ireland?

solar is only more expensive when you manipulate the numbers as I explained earlier

Per Mwh delivered it’s far cheaper

Learn to read

I clearly wrote “8 nuclear plants on the Irish Sea” (I didn’t specify if active or not, so that’s my bad)

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Examine this picture uk government provided

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There’s already several nuclear plants close to Dublin including one directly across the sea

"Neither Poland nor the Czech Republic have signed up for the OL-3 or Hinkley experience, and neither should Ireland"

This is quite important. Flammanville, Hinckley and even OL3 shouldn't be used as a stick to beat renewables if they are too expensive / not recommended for Ireland.

So where does Ireland go next? Too early in Polish AP-1000 project for accurate costs or learnings.

What about the older pressurised water reactors WWER or VVER in their native rusky? There are some VVER-440 running and recently completed in the EU.

Any idea if these are feasible for Ireland?

Edit; in theory Moneypoint could take 2 VVER-440 without major grid upgrades. With these being around since the 1970s how come SMRs are the latest scam instead if using a tried and tested design?

3000 acres agricultural land converted to an industrial estate and you are proud of it?
That’s also gonna result in rainforests being chopped down to feed a growing world population, yay go green

And these panels would deteriorate every year bringing that 10% capacity factor into single digits

“The National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that on average, solar panels deteriorate by about 0.5% per year. ”

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“But residents are still not happy, with some attending the council meeting to present 500 letters opposing the project.”

The Green lobby continues to dig its own political grave and piss of more communities which will result in a backlash against renewables

How? Firstly if you truly care about environment and climate change (I doubt it) you would do a uturn on your continued attacks on nuclear power

If Eamon Ryan or Greta Thunberg can admit they made a mistake when it comes to this tech so can you and other Green “environmentalists” who fail to see the hole they are digging themselves into, which is counterproductive to solving climate change

Then push and lobby politicians to undo the ban and start exploring options seriously with help of our science and engineering universities and Eirgrid

the path Ireland and many European countries followed has already been ruinously expensive and failed to fall drop co2 to levels of those countries that do have nuclear

carpeting the countryside and coasts in wind generators and solar and batteries and power lines for all of them is already pushing communities against renewables and the populists and opportunists are paying attention

Sinn Fein now want to remove carbon tax, and more parties will latch on to this and other anti Green policies especially if it gets em votes, and we seem where that path leads to in US

Article is quite clear that 3000 acres of agricultural land is being converted to industrial use for al least 60 years (in 60 years the council finds itself with a scrap yard they need to clean up) and the locals are NOT happy

Which part are you disputing now?

Thats before we get to discussing how these panels and the metal for the frames are manufacturing in China with coal and slave labour as per RTE investigation

Just a gentle reminder to all concerned………on the 26th of April 1984 reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded

The titanic couldn’t sink.
Fukishaima was a good design, Till it wasn’t
3 mile island was a very narrow escape.

But you keep focusing a the amount of coal ( about 50% of chinas energy mix) that need to make a panel that will he generate many time more clean electricity.

how much would nuclear cost in Ireland?

How long to build if we decided to do to, icluding changing laws. Picking a site etc?

What do we do in the interim ?

that’s extra funny as the current plan is to keep burning gas up to 2050 and beyond with new peaker gas plants being built all over the country like the one in Athenry

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2025-09-18/37/

The Green “mentalists” have pushed us into a situation where more and more gas is being constructed to backup their unreliable wind and solar that failed to even approach the co2 levels of nuclear while leaving us with expensive electricity bills and divided communities

more gas would be built without wind , RES makes up over 50% or our energy mix. So that’s 40% less gas due to RES

I am re-watching the HBO show Chernobyl.

While I am pro-nuclear in the sense of if it makes sense from a cost and business point of view we should do it (its not though), the show really makes one pause and think..

Yet again with personal attacks and insults from someone who struggles to form a coherent sentence

I installed solar 6 years ago because I was curious and i understand just exactly what 10% capacity factor amounts to in this country

Anyone trying to sell solar (which is even more unreliable than wind) in Ireland as a solution to unreliable wind backed up by gas which has led us to have a grid that produces so much co2, depends on gas imports via a single pipeline and resulted in second most expensive electricity in Europe is a charlatan, whom is talking out of their rear

Meanwhile EU countries like Netherlands and Italy already banned conversion of agricultural land to solar and battery industrial estates by implementing “roofs first first” policies which I fully support

If you want to spend money on solar by all means go ahead, imho it then teaches people just unreliable renewables are

Speaking of which

18x CO2 of nuclear France today