Japan

[HDAV]

I personally think nuclear is the only option we will have in a few years time, I bet a lot more people will 'welcome' it then :blink:

It would have been if the previous government had actually made a strategic decision and not just dithered and faffed you can put a live reactor any time soon and most of ours are due or over due decomisioning......Now we're totally screwed

[jacksdad]

My dad worked on decommisioning the old reactors about 8 years ago, they had unlimited work to do...then the funding stopped :blink:

He went to Seattle to work on cleaning up a huge site there instead: he designed robots/machines to work in contaminated areas, seems the Gov couldn't afford to pay his team any more

He often couldn't sleep due to concerns about the future, he retired 5 years ago, then passed away within months, very troubled in the end.....

[kdubya]

It would have been if the previous government had actually made a strategic decision and not just dithered and faffed you can put a live reactor any time soon and most of ours are due or over due decomisioning......Now we're totally screwed

 

We will have to see what happens, but remember the plant affected HAS just suffered an 8.9 earthquake + aftershocks exceeding 6 (new zealand quake levels)and a huge tsunami,many other nuclear plants in japan are still operating normally and as far as we are aware the containment has not been breached? yes it looks like fractured pipework has allowed radioactive water to leak into the non contained area IE turbine hall, BUT considering the scale of events not to bad on the whole, hopefully those affected will be limited to plant workers (thats bad enough) but as gas and oil + coal prices will now soar on the back of this disaster in japan, can we do other than go with nuclear? I think not, still its perfect food for the anti's.

 

Perhaps those who say we should not build nuclear plants on fault lines might draw their attention to banning the building of towns and cities on the coast lines of those areas, after all the incident at the power station has as far as we know killed no one, but the tsunami HAS levelled towns,and many many thousands will have perished when the final tally comes in.

 

KW

[four-wheel-drive]

We will have to see what happens, but remember the plant affected HAS just suffered an 8.9 earthquake + aftershocks exceeding 6 (new zealand quake levels)and a huge tsunami,many other nuclear plants in japan are still operating normally and as far as we are aware the containment has not been breached? yes it looks like fractured pipework has allowed radioactive water to leak into the non contained area IE turbine hall, BUT considering the scale of events not to bad on the whole, hopefully those affected will be limited to plant workers (thats bad enough) but as gas and oil + coal prices will now soar on the back of this disaster in japan, can we do other than go with nuclear? I think not, still its perfect food for the anti's.

 

Perhaps those who say we should not build nuclear plants on fault lines might draw their attention to banning the building of towns and cities on the coast lines of those areas, after all the incident at the power station has as far as we know killed no one, but the tsunami HAS levelled towns,and many many thousands will have perished when the final tally comes in.

 

KW

The problem with this argument is people living on the coast could be moved further in land quickly if there was a problem but a Nuclear Plant cannot be moved I now that in this case there was now warning but how long would you need to make a N/P safe quite some time I would think. and one other point if a N/P did go bad remember there are still parts of this country that it is not safe to keep sheep or caws on from Chernoble and that was 20 years ago. I should add bearing everything in mind I still think that they are a good thing to have just as long as they are put in safe places.