I don’t know what it is with Nuclear. We’ve had the EU confirm its green, and its kinda like an airplane. Safest way to travel… but incidents are ugly.
The first country to go hard on Nuclear energy infrastructure will become an energy super power globally. So why don’t we?
We can innovate, become safer. I often wonder if its possible to create an ocean based nuclear rig so we can dunk it in the ocean worst case scenario.
I’m not an expert, i don’t know if this is possible. But i think policy focusing nuclear would help find many innovative improvements.
The UK are developing small modular nuclear reactors, first bring due in 2030. That program should be invested in an the public educated on its safety.
Also pubic education on thorium which is much safer than uranium and produces far less waste.
What it is, is that there is a fear about it, but that is because of how Nuclear energy was presented in the many years before.
First introduction of thought is nukes, and if we say nuke, we say Hiroshima and Nagasaki, big bad bomb, and that many super powers of the world decided to mass reproduce them.
Then we got the meltdowns of power plants, Chernobyl and Fukushima for notable example.
Association is what does it, but it doesn’t help that the media harps on the negatives over the positives, and so that bandwagon has spun out of control, and the Greens just go fanatical over renewables which aren’t that ready yet and cause electricity prices to skyrocket and then we end up borrowing power from neighbour nations. Its a faff, but, we should have it in the UK because if you think clearly about it, we are sophisticated with our maintenance of such important structures in the West, its only when we get infiltrators that we don’t want included, as it’ll be a bomb to them.
One thing I am looking forward to is Fusion power, because as time goes by, our ability to have more energy returned from Fusion is increasing and can eventually possibly become self-sufficient and produce more on top of it.
Instead, we have Ed with his fanatacism…who can’t eat a sandwich without looking like he should be fired from even doing that.
Yeah, i think Fukushuma has set us back aways despite it being something we could prep for and safeguard against, even though we actually very rarely have natural disasters of that nature in the UK.
One of the reasons we’re uniquely capable of specializing in nuclear. I think we missed our chance to become a “super power” but, we can definately join the prospering nations with such decisions in the future.
I hope we’ll see more innovation for Nuclear power. I myself am not an expert on it, i just know its far from the demon the majority consider it to be.
Voted. We need stable base-load power. Future economic prosperity depends on the availability of plentiful and reliable energy. National security requires that we have an independent source of energy. Nuclear power will create jobs and encourage the development of engineering skills for future energy developments such as fusion.
From the research I have seen, it looks like the cleanest energy production. Understandably, it could go wrong in a way that far exceeds the others, however the probability of it going wrong seems to be low. I also think there could be some value from localising energy production to the individual. I think people opting for Solar panels on their own property for less reliance on the grid is a fair way to go if the Solar panels last a very long time and become more recyclable over time. If each household can produce power for itself, we have less of a reliance on massive corporations where people complain about the profits they make.
Just for comparison, each of the two Bechtel A1B nuclear reactors on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier produce 700 MW. The average offshore wind turbines produce between four and 15 MW.
Therefore, the reactor puts out the same power as an average sized (50 turbines) wind farm. But wind farms do not operate at maximum output all the time.
I was in the nuclear business in the 1970,s and watch politicians destroy it.
We no longer have the experts for large reactors but we do control npower in submarines. Get a few hundred of those around the uk would help
