Nuclear power station location - an idea

Nuclear power station location - an idea

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MartG

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20,626 posts

203 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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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 smile

Oakey

27,524 posts

215 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Building stuff underground is expensive.

tim0409

4,355 posts

158 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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and it needs to be near the sea.

-crookedtail-

1,559 posts

189 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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The newest generation are going to be much cleaner than these old 60s ones. I think that they, the newest ones, are of a French design, the older ones were much dirtier due to the need/want of plutonium. nuts


Edited by -crookedtail- on Wednesday 4th March 21:21

RDM

1,860 posts

206 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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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... smile

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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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... smile
Well its called the seat of power. Makes sense to me.

princealbert23

2,574 posts

160 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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RDM said:
So it needs to be near water. Check.


It's obvious where to build it really... smile
Brighton?

MartG

Original Poster:

20,626 posts

203 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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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... smile
Low transmission losses too as most of its output would be consumed withing a 30 mile radius

mcdjl

5,438 posts

194 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Most of the problem at Sellafield has almost nothing to do with making electricity.

Storer

5,024 posts

214 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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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.

MartG

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20,626 posts

203 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Storer said:
God knows how we will ever sort our balance of payments out if we keep shipping profits out of this country.
Even outsourcing of civil service jobs went primarily to US and French owned companies frown UK Government has a very poor record of 'Buying British'

mini me

1,435 posts

192 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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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?


jkh112

21,893 posts

157 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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mini me said:
Do we own any assets in other countries?
The Falklands, Gibraltar?
getmecoat

Megaflow

9,347 posts

224 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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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.

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.

BoRED S2upid

19,644 posts

239 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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This isn't an issue Anglesey wants another near the sea and an island there couldn't be a better location if it went wrong just blow up the bridge and seal off the island. We also have Scotland. Basically let Wales and Scotland generate power for the whole of the UK.

ShiningWit

10,203 posts

127 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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Build it in Eastern Europe, there can't be anyone left there now can there?

grumbledoak

31,504 posts

232 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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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.

john2443

6,325 posts

210 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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ShiningWit said:
Build it in Eastern Europe, there can't be anyone left there now can there?
But, who would build it if there's no one there? We'd have to send a load of Polish builders over there to do it! biggrin

mini me

1,435 posts

192 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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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!

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.




Fastchas

2,640 posts

120 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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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.

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.