The never ending green bollox.

[BrilloPad]

I spent several years working at Hinkley Point nuclear power station, i have little problem with nuclear power other than the cost to the taxpayer (me) and the risks from that one in a million accident that seems to happen every few years.
Plus the cost and afteraffects of decommisioning these beasties which runs into taxpayer billions.
Hinkley Point nuclear power station is due to be decommissioned in 2016 by the way, and will cost more to decommission than all of the offshore wind farms currently being built are costing the developers.

As for a vested interest, Yes I have a vested interest. three grandchildren to date.

Are you sure it was hinkley point? Bearing in mind your record with power tools are you sure it wasn't 7-mile island followed by chernobyl?

[BlasterBates]

It's always tricky weighing up whether Nuclear is profitable in the UK because it was nationalised. However in Germany private companies are responsible for building and decommissioning power plants. The German power plants are profitable, that includes the decommisioning costs which have already been set aside. German wind generators are only profitable because the power companies have to buy their feed-in at 2 or 3 times the price they sell it on to the consumer. Therefore wind power has been driving up electricity prices, and will continue to do so.

[Diver]

Are you sure it was hinkley point? Bearing in mind your record with power tools are you sure it wasn't 7-mile island followed by chernobyl?

They didn't know me

[BlasterBates]

It only took an hour or two to decommission block 4 at Tschernobyl.

[TimberWolf]

I spent several years working at Hinkley Point nuclear power station, i have little problem with nuclear power other than the cost to the taxpayer (me) and the risks from that one in a million accident that seems to happen every few years.
Plus the cost and afteraffects of decommisioning these beasties which runs into taxpayer billions.
Hinkley Point nuclear power station is due to be decommissioned in 2016 by the way, and will cost more to decommission than all of the offshore wind farms currently being built are costing the developers.

As for a vested interest, Yes I have a vested interest. three grandchildren to date.

AGRs are messy and beggers to clean up, and I think the earlier Magnox were worse still. The latest generation III power plants (ACR, EPR, and others) are allegedly a lot more efficient, longer lasting, cheaper and less costly to decommission. And some of them will burn thorium too!

Generation III reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Troll]

Plus the cost and after affects of decommisioning these beasties which runs into taxpayer billions.

As anyone who has seen the China Syndrome knows, you just let the core go critical, burn through its containment vessel and voila!...it's somebody else problem.

[TimberWolf]

As anyone who has seen the China Syndrome knows, you just let the core go critical, burn through its containment vessel and voila!...it's somebody else problem.

Interesting factoid. The film China Syndrome was released a few days before the 3 Mile Island incident. I don't recall how the film plot went, but I've heard it's a bit like the accident.

China Syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[AtW]

It only took an hour or two to decommission block 4 at Tschernobyl.

Bollox.

[Diver]

Originally Posted by BlasterBates
It only took an hour or two to decommission block 4 at Tschernobyl.

Bollox.

It did only take an hour or two!
They carried out a safety test with the power levels too low.
Reactor number four overheated, and the reactor's roof blew off
Five seconds later the core erupted, scattering debris - including a block of graphite used as a moderator and housing the control rod channel - up to three kilometers away.
Effectively decommissioning the reactor

[d000hg]

Do we have any idea how much suitable radioactive fuel there is around? In a sense, it's even more a fossil fuel than oil/coal, because at least those are still being produced, whereas Uranium and the like is continually disappearing even if we don't use it.