Nuclear - future for Ireland?

Its expected the strike price will be around 118euro per mwh , for 40 years . that was late 2025 ,

But i dont know where the Polish government 14 billion fits with that .. theyre taking equity in the project .

But do they paid back after the US , at the same time, in proportion to equity, and how much that 14 billion euro cost poland over the 40 years contract -

As in if i get a mortgage to build a house , say it costs 300 grand to build - over the lifetime of the 30 year morgage I'm likely to pay around 600 grand -.but it still beats renting..

The - no production of electricity - no payment, is no different that any other CFD be it nuclear, renewables or any other source.

Along with the Polish government putting up €15 Bn. two U.S. institutions, that appear to be connected to the U.S. government, are funding the remaining 60% at a very favorable interest rate, with the rest spread around international agencies and banks. It does look as if the U.S. are determined that this project works and gets Westinghouse back into the nuclear game as a serious competitor. We could do a lot worse than get in there before a queue forms.

Well, until just a few years ago gas was to be the "transition fuel" through to 2050/2060 until something else was developed. Then the Greens took over Europe and that went out the window.

While waiting for nuclear:

Develop Barryroe! 2012 appraisal well flowed 3.5K/day Barrels Oil AND nearly 300 million standard cubic feet good Gas per day, For perspective the completed wells at Corrib produced 260 at start-up. Be a easy and relatively inexpensively tie-back to the existing Kinsale pipeline infrastructure still in place just 3KM's away.

Then go up to Corrib and open up, Corrib North, Corrib South, Inishkea and Inishkea West prospects, tie-back to the existing Manifold & pipeline infrastructure.

Corrib is a wee pimple of a field, those others surrounding it are massive in comparison, it would make us energy independent for generations (quite possibly an energy exporter).

"Transition Energy" power until we can decide how, which nuclear technology to go with.

Them engineers what do they know eh, only 10 days worth of storage there, whoever thought that’s a good idea

Yet another good move, that we don’t have gas storage nor LNG terminals is yet another failure of policy the Greens and their crusade has left us with

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sweden-pauses-plans-new-power-cable-denmark-2026-05-08/?

One for those proposing we become more reliant on cables to other countries and then expect em not to hold us hostage for political reasons

as has been noted time and time again Ireland is now heavily dependent on gas thanks to renewables

Gas that mostly comes via a single point of failure with no backup and could plunge the country into darkness for up to a year

What happens if the pipeline to UK fails or is sabotaged or is used by a twat like Farage who just had a great political win to hold us ransom?

LNG could be cheaper at times and provides redundancy since we are gonna be burning gas well into the next century thanks to green watermelons

we are dependant on gas because we are in transition to modern cheap energy sources and that will require a backup until ready.
that would be the same with expensive and redundant nuclear but then we would have an absolute money pit on our hands that is not dependant or reliable and would require a constant backup which would end up being cheaper to use as our main energy source.
lng is always more expensive and more subject to disruption and security issues as we are now seeing.
we will be burning gas for a lot shorter thanks to the greens and their modernisation program.

This that support this current plan, which originated from the greens, keep telling us about this money pit nuclear would be, yet never give any costing to this plan they favor.

Why is that. Is it because they do not know, or they do they know that it would be ruinous for our economy while still having us paying the most expensive electricity prices on the planet and laughable.?

they gave you the costings, the plan is a fraction of the cost of nuclear, can be delivered in a fraction of the time and is reliable.

and it has backup built in from the start as part of it.

Nobody has given me any detail whatsoever as to what the different components of a plan they favor would be or what they would cost, so who are these "they" you seem to believe did ?

And what is this backup built in from the start as part of it ?

there’s been proposals now to roll that back in the Dail as some politicians are waking up to the coming political (never mind environmental) bomb that the Greens have have set under the state

anyways yet another Engineering professor speaks out, I’m sure many of the watermelons have better credentials than all these engineers and engineering bodies /s

So not able to address any of the points made by the engineering professor and only managed to highlight that the publication examines both sides of the debate

while going of in a cherrypicking tangent again about France which at time of this post is producing 20x less co2 than Ireland while not being the most expensive in Europe

Germany spent a trillion euro and twenty years now and are in a situation where their industrial might is being destroyed while remaining one of the most polluting and second most expensive behind us in Ireland

That EDF you give out about made billions for the French state and is going to build more nuclear as per their plants