1. Actually, the huge decommissioning costs of modern nuclear power facilities are a bit of a myth. In fact most of the facility does not become contaminated and therefore most metal and many other materials can be recycled.
This means that the decommissioning costs, including the disposal of associated nuclear wastes contribute only a small amount to the total cost of the electricity the facility generates.
2. The half life is not of course the time to be safe. However that said, the half life of components that have been exposed to neutron bombardment and now have radioactive isotopes are mainly only a couple of years - meaning they are completely safe after around 50 years - that is an acceptable period. The exception to this is of course C14 which has a half life of over 5000 years
3. What we should have as well as more modern nuclear facilities is wind power! The only problem with wind farms is the f@cking NIMBY attitude of liberal middle Britain. These are the same people who buy a house near Stanstead airport and the have the audacity to complain about the f@cking noise
These people need to have reason and common sense injected into the void between their ears - preferably using a captive bolt gun!
Sheesh, if people had complained like this 200 years ago, the industrial revolution would have never happened because water wheels and windmills were just too noisy
WHAT F@CKING NOISE? There are a few wind turbines in this area and I cannot hear the ******s even when I turn my engine off and listen really carefully. That doesn't stop the inbred villagers campaining to not have them built in the middle of bloody nowhere.
When you fly over the English Channel from Brussels to London City, the most amazing site is seeing the 30 turbine offshore wind farm
There are many hundreds of turbines planned and sanctioned in tens of offshore sites and I say lets have them offshore and onshore as well, as they are the way forward!
Cheers n
Si
P.S. The sooner we embrace wind, wave, water and nuclear energy the sooner we can stop burning oil in power stations and turn it into super unleaded so spread the word brothers
This means that the decommissioning costs, including the disposal of associated nuclear wastes contribute only a small amount to the total cost of the electricity the facility generates.
2. The half life is not of course the time to be safe. However that said, the half life of components that have been exposed to neutron bombardment and now have radioactive isotopes are mainly only a couple of years - meaning they are completely safe after around 50 years - that is an acceptable period. The exception to this is of course C14 which has a half life of over 5000 years
3. What we should have as well as more modern nuclear facilities is wind power! The only problem with wind farms is the f@cking NIMBY attitude of liberal middle Britain. These are the same people who buy a house near Stanstead airport and the have the audacity to complain about the f@cking noise
These people need to have reason and common sense injected into the void between their ears - preferably using a captive bolt gun!Sheesh, if people had complained like this 200 years ago, the industrial revolution would have never happened because water wheels and windmills were just too noisy
WHAT F@CKING NOISE? There are a few wind turbines in this area and I cannot hear the ******s even when I turn my engine off and listen really carefully. That doesn't stop the inbred villagers campaining to not have them built in the middle of bloody nowhere.When you fly over the English Channel from Brussels to London City, the most amazing site is seeing the 30 turbine offshore wind farm
There are many hundreds of turbines planned and sanctioned in tens of offshore sites and I say lets have them offshore and onshore as well, as they are the way forward!Cheers n
Si
P.S. The sooner we embrace wind, wave, water and nuclear energy the sooner we can stop burning oil in power stations and turn it into super unleaded
so spread the word brothers
(except a towball)
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