Nuclear power station location - an idea
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With today's news that it's expected to cost an extra £5billion to clean up Sellafield, I've come up with an idea about locating future nuclear power stations
First decide where you're going to bury the waste from it, then build the power station underground in that location so when it comes to decommissioning it all you have to do is pour a load of concrete into the hole to seal it up
First decide where you're going to bury the waste from it, then build the power station underground in that location so when it comes to decommissioning it all you have to do is pour a load of concrete into the hole to seal it up
RDM said:
So it needs to be near water. Check.
Say you had a large building that was in need of multi-billion repairs that was already
government owned thereby cutting the purchase cost for the land.
It's obvious where to build it really...
Well its called the seat of power. Makes sense to me.Say you had a large building that was in need of multi-billion repairs that was already
government owned thereby cutting the purchase cost for the land.
It's obvious where to build it really...
RDM said:
So it needs to be near water. Check.
Say you had a large building that was in need of multi-billion repairs that was already
government owned thereby cutting the purchase cost for the land.
It's obvious where to build it really...
Low transmission losses too as most of its output would be consumed withing a 30 mile radiusSay you had a large building that was in need of multi-billion repairs that was already
government owned thereby cutting the purchase cost for the land.
It's obvious where to build it really...
We were world leaders in Nuclear power. Due to our Government appeasing the anti nuclear brigade we will now have to pay a French company to build and run the only means of generating immediately available electricity for the 21st century.
We already use French nuclear power, imported via cable under the channel.
With Chinese money and Spanish companies building most of our solar farms we no longer produce even our own electricity.
God knows how we will ever sort our balance of payments out if we keep shipping profits out of this country.
We already use French nuclear power, imported via cable under the channel.
With Chinese money and Spanish companies building most of our solar farms we no longer produce even our own electricity.
God knows how we will ever sort our balance of payments out if we keep shipping profits out of this country.
UK Government has a very poor record of 'Buying British' 
mini me said:
I heard on teh radio yesterday that we are now going to sell our share of the Eurotunnel to Canada.
Do we own any assets in other countries?
No, we are not.Do we own any assets in other countries?
We are going to sell our share of Eurostar off. Eurostar is the passenger rail service that runs in the Eurotunnel.
And until it was annouced that we were going to sell it, the vasy majority of the professional offended briadge didn't even know the UK had a stake in Eurostar as far as I can see.
Underground is a bad place for them, in an emergency you probably want water to flow through them not flood them. And you don't really want to seal them in once done anyway. And the modern designs don't create the waste that old ones did (Sellafield imports it AFAIK).
We have tons of coastline that isn't about to announce a series of tedious independence referendums until they get the answer they want. Almost any one of them would do - let's put tidal power where that will work best, nuclear on the rest. Then the Russians and the Arabs can go f**k themselves. Done.
We have tons of coastline that isn't about to announce a series of tedious independence referendums until they get the answer they want. Almost any one of them would do - let's put tidal power where that will work best, nuclear on the rest. Then the Russians and the Arabs can go f**k themselves. Done.
Megaflow said:
No, we are not.
We are going to sell our share of Eurostar off. Eurostar is the passenger rail service that runs in the Eurotunnel.
And until it was annouced that we were going to sell it, the vasy majority of the professional offended briadge didn't even know the UK had a stake in Eurostar as far as I can see.
Calm down you are typing too fast!We are going to sell our share of Eurostar off. Eurostar is the passenger rail service that runs in the Eurotunnel.
And until it was annouced that we were going to sell it, the vasy majority of the professional offended briadge didn't even know the UK had a stake in Eurostar as far as I can see.
I don't really see the difference, its still selling off our assets to another country which was kinda my point as you well know.
mini me said:
I heard on teh radio yesterday that we are now going to sell our share of the Eurotunnel to Canada.
Do we own any assets in other countries?
This is a good move IMO.Do we own any assets in other countries?
Listened to a report on the radio last night. We are getting £757m for our 40% stake in Eurostar.
Profits from Eurostar earn the UK £20m per annum. Much better to sell it off and use the money getting the deficit down. It would take nearly 40 years for Eurostar to earn the taxpayer that much money.
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