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First Concrete Poured At Hinkley C Nuclear Power Plant
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After years of faffing about, at last this is being built. I never thought we would see the day !
After years of faffing about, at last this is being built. I never thought we would see the day !
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For the foreseeable future there is NO alternative to Nuclear energy. We are just 20 years too late in building new Nuclear plants. As Mikey says we used to lead the world in nuclear energy.The UK totally abandoned its nuclear program back in the 1970s. Now we don't even have a training program for nuclear engineering let alone anyone able to build a nuclear...
13:09 Fri 31st Mar 2017
Emmie....I have always been in favour of nuclear energy !
When I was boy, in the 60's, I lived near Hinkley, and our science teacher took us for a trip there, when they were building B station.
Unless we do something about electricity generation in Britain, one winter day we are going come home, throw the light switch, and nothing will happen. Nuclear needs to be part of an overlall plan.
Hinkley C should have been half way built by now, and would have been, if successive governments, of both political hues, had pulled their fingers out, instead of fannying around.
When I was boy, in the 60's, I lived near Hinkley, and our science teacher took us for a trip there, when they were building B station.
Unless we do something about electricity generation in Britain, one winter day we are going come home, throw the light switch, and nothing will happen. Nuclear needs to be part of an overlall plan.
Hinkley C should have been half way built by now, and would have been, if successive governments, of both political hues, had pulled their fingers out, instead of fannying around.
For the foreseeable future there is NO alternative to Nuclear energy.
We are just 20 years too late in building new Nuclear plants.
As Mikey says we used to lead the world in nuclear energy.The UK totally abandoned its nuclear program back in the 1970s.
Now we don't even have a training program for nuclear engineering let alone anyone able to build a nuclear power plant. There are only 3 countries in the world that can now build a nuclear power station
Russia, France and China. The Russian design is considered out of date and unsafe so that leaves France and China. Our new station is being built by a French / Chinese consortium.
We abandoned nuclear power due to the very successful
'Nuclear No Thanks' campaine of the 1970s, which in turn was a follow on from the CND campaine of the 1960s. The Nuclear No Thanks campaign was based on the totally false idea that nuclear power stations were a secret way to produce material for nuclear bombs, if fact the technology is completely different .
The governments of the time however were not sufficiently knowledgeable to realise this and gave in to the 'Nuclear No Thanks' campaine by cancelling the entire nuclear program.
We now have a major shortage of generating capacity and a cold winter could see us having power cuts.
Here is the 'Grid Watch' site which shows you from minute to minute how much electricity the UK is using and how much is generated from each source.
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You can see how much Solar power and wind power is being produced at any time. Solar will be at its maximum about now and you can watch as it drops to zero when the Sun sets.
We are just 20 years too late in building new Nuclear plants.
As Mikey says we used to lead the world in nuclear energy.The UK totally abandoned its nuclear program back in the 1970s.
Now we don't even have a training program for nuclear engineering let alone anyone able to build a nuclear power plant. There are only 3 countries in the world that can now build a nuclear power station
Russia, France and China. The Russian design is considered out of date and unsafe so that leaves France and China. Our new station is being built by a French / Chinese consortium.
We abandoned nuclear power due to the very successful
'Nuclear No Thanks' campaine of the 1970s, which in turn was a follow on from the CND campaine of the 1960s. The Nuclear No Thanks campaign was based on the totally false idea that nuclear power stations were a secret way to produce material for nuclear bombs, if fact the technology is completely different .
The governments of the time however were not sufficiently knowledgeable to realise this and gave in to the 'Nuclear No Thanks' campaine by cancelling the entire nuclear program.
We now have a major shortage of generating capacity and a cold winter could see us having power cuts.
Here is the 'Grid Watch' site which shows you from minute to minute how much electricity the UK is using and how much is generated from each source.
http://
You can see how much Solar power and wind power is being produced at any time. Solar will be at its maximum about now and you can watch as it drops to zero when the Sun sets.
Emmie if you click on the 'Box' for each energy source in the Grid watch site I posted you can see how much energy each is producing.
Wind power now contributes around 30% of the total ( when the wind is blowing). When there is no wind you can see on the grid watch site how the CCGT (Gas Turbine) power output rises to compensate.
If there were no wind turbines then we would be burning more gas to make up the difference.
Wind power now contributes around 30% of the total ( when the wind is blowing). When there is no wind you can see on the grid watch site how the CCGT (Gas Turbine) power output rises to compensate.
If there were no wind turbines then we would be burning more gas to make up the difference.
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