Nuclear - future for Ireland?

He is not looking to convince you, he is just trying to further the perception that Green Party policies are well conceived, not counter-productive not financially ruinous to the State. 1st, 2nd and 3rd preferences need to be collected in coming local and national elections otherwise the doomsday club can't influence policy.

I haven`t seen anyone anywhere even suggesting we should invest in building our own SMR`s. It would be as crazy as the greens idea that we would be selling electricity to the rest of Europe generated by floating wind farms off our west coast, or that by bankrupting our economy the rest of the world would see how right we were and do the same.

If your definition of grift is showboating and chasing shiny new things you do not need to look any further than home where nobody can give a cost for a plan we are following and some think we should spend further hundreds of billions on grid scale battery storage back-up on top of that.

And why do you believe we should only be looking to France should we decide to build a nuclear plant rather than consider the proposals of any others that would be interested ? Poland has secured themselves a sweetheart deal with the U.S. and South Korea was offering a better price than the French or the U.S.

Take the most expensive UK or Finnish new gen reactors

And you still endup reaching net zero decades before the current plan (that has zero chance of reaching 2030 and 2050 goals) which will cost at least 10x more even by the most optimistic of calculations the spinsters can provide when they don’t scurry off to hide

That greens (with and without capital first letter) in Ireland actually give two 💩 s about climate change is one of the most incredible political stunts ever pulled,

the Greens in UK on other hand don’t even have much in way of green policies hilariously enough and just are a place for far left Corbynistas to congregate

Where did you get your latest nonsense from that EDF of France is the only company using concrete in nuclear power plant construction ?

KHNP of South Korea recently completed work on the UAE Barakah four NPP`s with an installed capacity of 5.6 GW where they poured 2.5 million yards of concrete and Westinghouse are not going to be using paper mache for the Polish 3.75 GW plant.

Poland and the Czech Republic are both members of the E.U. and are governed under the same rules and regulations we are and the E.U. has no problem with Westinghouse building nuclear plants in Poland or KHNP doing the same in the Czech Republic.

I do not buy for one second that you are not anti nuclear and your now favoring Of EDF is anything other than your already shown disingenuous postings.

That was for four units with an installed capacity of 5.6 GW and sand would not have been a problem😉

How so ?

The one offshore wind farm we tried to build was not just an unmitigated disaster in its own right, it exposed the feet of clay this whole present plan was based on.

Based on that and the weight the U.S. government is putting behind the Polish and Slovakia NPPs via cheap financing along with the Czech agreement with KHNP on their two new large scale unit, the odds on both Westinghouse and KHNP building those plants are as good if not better than ours of building the four offshore wind farms recently awarded strike prices.

Anyone remember lisa Simpson's Malibu Barbie competitor which failed. At least they tried except the investor was left nursing their loses. Hydrogen economy has utterly failed and the number of pumps in Germany are so reduced that the few remaining hydrogen cars can't travel any distances for fear of being stranded. More expensive to run too.

Only difference between hydrogen in automotive and energy storage is that we have seen it doesn't work commercially and only beginning to see it in storage now

Italy is dropping its nuclear power ban

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2026/05/13/framework-for-resumption-of-nuclear-power-in-italy-this-summer-says-meloni_e8a7f300-37ca-44d8-96c7-968ddeeabc52.html

they’ve already blocked conversion of farm lands to solar industrial estates