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| Thread ID: 68471 | 2006-04-30 00:56:00 | Nuclear power. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 450765 | 2006-08-20 02:48:00 | ... But in fact I support nuclear energy sufficently that I'd be happy to see a plant in Invercargill. I've visited a US plant and seen European ones here and there and they really don't frighten me. Those who worry about 100,000 year sarcophagae need to consider the remarkable return of plantlife and insects at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Trinity Point, and Chernobyl. Modelling suggested these sites would have been barren for at least 100 years but nature has a way of triumphing. As the biologists tell us, life fills every niche on this planet. But the "life" need not be human. In fact, "humanity" is a small proportion of the total quantity of lifeforms, and has existed for only a small proportion of the time since the Earth formed. Worry. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 450766 | 2006-09-17 00:48:00 | www.starttherevolution.org gency.htm | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 450767 | 2006-09-17 01:34:00 | www.starttherevolution.org gency.htm www.uic.com.au |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 450768 | 2006-09-17 02:25:00 | www.google.co.nz Japan's shaky nuclear record: news.bbc.co.uk |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 450769 | 2006-09-18 12:15:00 | The pros & cons of nuclear power are simply an academic argument in a country the size of New Zealand. It's just not practical financially. The cost of building a nuclear power station is astronomical compared with the types we've built in the past. For a population of 4 million people, we simply can't afford it. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 450770 | 2006-09-18 13:10:00 | The cost will come down as more countries start to use it as the squeeze comes on and energy prices sky rocket, in another ten years I think it will be seriously discussed as an option here in NZ. The bad planning of the past (not electrifying the main trunk line, building more hydro-electric dams whilst it was cheap in the 50's/60's) will result in even worse planning in the future! Cicero is already sold on it. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 450771 | 2006-09-18 22:28:00 | The cost will come down as more countries start to use it as the squeeze comes on and energy prices sky rocket, in another ten years I think it will be seriously discussed as an option here in NZ. The bad planning of the past (not electrifying the main trunk line, building more hydro-electric dams whilst it was cheap in the 50's/60's) will result in even worse planning in the future! Cicero is already sold on it. I do indeed think Nuclear power is the power of the future.Just a question of harnessing it safely. One just hopes that the jerks who organise these things get on with it. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 450772 | 2006-09-20 00:00:00 | The pros & cons of nuclear power are simply an academic argument in a country the size of New Zealand. It's just not practical financially. The cost of building a nuclear power station is astronomical compared with the types we've built in the past. For a population of 4 million people, we simply can't afford it. One of the longer-lived threads. Actually Laura, nuclear reactors can be bought off-the-shelf from Russia and China and they aren't the dangerous leaky things we might imagine. One problem with nuclear is that we'd need two reactors - or another large dam, as standby. Nuclears power plants are go or whoa. No in between. So when our 1GW station shuts down for new fuel rods, safety checks etc, another needs to be up and running to supply the electricity demand. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 450773 | 2006-09-20 00:40:00 | I support Nuclear power, over Oil and Gas. But other alternatives need to be looked at too. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 450774 | 2006-09-20 02:47:00 | Winston: My belief that we can't afford nuclear power comes from the same source every journalist knows well. I heard it on the National Programme from an expert whose name & qualifications I didn't catch. But he "sounded as if he knew what he was talking about.." Yes, it's our old friend Anonymous again. But in case he's wrong - Do you by any chance have an off-the-shelf price from Russia or China? (In case I toy with the prospect of installing a reactor alongside my Central Otago electricity pylon at the bottom of the front paddock) Just round figures of millions/billions would do. Then we could compare that with rugby stadiums, city transport systems & main trunk line electrification - that is, the cheaper expensive stuff. |
Laura (43) | ||
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