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| Thread ID: 114026 | 2010-11-15 07:08:00 | Nuclear Power stations in NZ - Yes or No? | jareemon (5207) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1153101 | 2010-11-15 08:01:00 | Well there's only 13 of you there ... isn't there ?? :D :lol: |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1153102 | 2010-11-15 08:14:00 | Yes - put it in my back yard if you want. | somebody (208) | ||
| 1153103 | 2010-11-15 08:20:00 | Someone mentioned there is nowhere to put the waste from these nuclear stations... is this the case? do they have waste like that? i dont really know how it all works | jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1153104 | 2010-11-15 08:22:00 | Yes. Auckland would be the logical place. However wouldn't you need two. Maintenance shutdowns? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1153105 | 2010-11-15 08:33:00 | Yes. Auckland would be the logical place. However wouldn't you need two. Maintenance shutdowns? PJ They're not "big" enough to cause those sort of problems. Modern nuclear plants are about the same scale as Huntly, and that gets shut down for maintenance without causing any major problems. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1153106 | 2010-11-15 08:43:00 | Someone mentioned there is nowhere to put the waste from these nuclear stations... is this the case? do they have waste like that? i dont really know how it all works Nuclear is the way to go - until you have to find a place to store the spent fuel. You just need somewhere geologically stable (good luck finding that in NZ), that will remain undisturbed for at least 10000 years. |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 1153107 | 2010-11-15 08:47:00 | Nuclear is the way to go - until you have to find a place to store the spent fuel. You just need somewhere geologically stable (good luck finding that in NZ), that will remain undisturbed for at least 10000 years. Send it overseas. Japan and France, among other countries, have facilities to reprocess spent fuel into something usable. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1153108 | 2010-11-15 09:09:00 | Send it overseas. Japan and France, among other countries, have facilities to reprocess spent fuel into something usable. That would make it an expensive option. I think Auckland are at the stage now that they need a new hydro dam or nuclear plant if they want to avoid more blackouts. Good luck getting the greenies onboard for either of those options. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1153109 | 2010-11-15 09:24:00 | Yeah why not, place it in northland to supply orcs unfortunately it will give the greenies another thing to moan about They need a reason ??? :p |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1153110 | 2010-11-15 10:30:00 | I am pro-nuclear. Those greenie protesters need to **** and read some facts. I know what you're thinking, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc etc. Chernobyl; the big one, yeah, it was one massive fkup, right from the get-go, the reactor had design flaws, and there were shoddy management practices. Three Mile Island; the radiation released from this accident was - get this - the same as 1/6th of a chest x-ray. Major disaster? I think not. It's been a long, long time since those incidents (and most any other ones), reactor designs have improved a lot since then, and we're able to get even more energy from less fuel, and also other sorts of fuel that once would've been considered unusable. Waste; the actual physical dimensions of nuclear waste aren't all that large. Why don't you just bury it in the middle of the Australian Outback, plenty of space there. |
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