[Newsbot]

Title: A new dawn for nuclear power?
Category: World
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2013-10-21 07:02:20

[martin14]

$1:

basically a state-backed guaranteed minimum tariff for electricity � of �92.50 per megawatt hour.

only to mention that price is double what Hinckley currently gets, which is around 45 pmw.


Poor Brits, used to be the leader of everything, now can't even put a NPP
together.

Also, all energy companies today announced a 10% immediate price increase for consumers.
I'll bet some pensioners will die this winter because they won't have money heat.

Pathetic.

[DrCaleb]

$1:

Worse was to come in 1986, with the Chernobyl catastrophe. Again, this said a lot more about humanity’s irrational fear of the scintillating atom than about nuclear risks. The very worst nuclear disaster in history killed fewer than 100 people directly and will probably lead to the indirect (and unmeasurable) premature deaths of a couple of thousand more, mostly from cancer.

This was bad, but compare it to the hundreds of thousands killed by coal-fired plants, from air pollution and mining accidents, and the millions more expected to die as a result of climate change, largely brought about by burning fossil fuels. Nuclear is, of course, an almost carbon-neutral form of power generation and, wind aside (which is insanely expensive), probably the safest. Yes, there are decommissioning costs and, yes, the upfront investment is huge, but this is largely due to the fact that green concerns have set the planning bar almost unbelievably high compared to other means of generation. (This doesn’t stop campaigners trumpeting high costs as an objection.)

Posted for truth.