Page 1 of Hinkley point Nuclear Power station

Prime minister has called time out for a few months to reconsider the situation to see if the Power station can go ahead or not. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36932027

I just cannot understand why a Government would even consider such a dangerous thing after Fukushima radiated the whole of Japan and the fallout hit the west coast of America.

Also going further back we have chernobyl disaster and three mile island incident,, not to mention many radiation leaks (know or covered up) over the years from all nuclear plants, take for example sellafield in Cumbria.

There must be other means of getting energy, rather than pay this excessive amount of Billions, that would pay for million of homes getting free solar power panels instead.  That would help the grid. Then we have more importantly the dangers of radiation leaks which is dangerous to all. Workers at the plant and the public. 

There is one other aspect of Hinkely point that is rather worrying and is mentioned on the link above is Chinese co-operation in building this plant. Coming from a cold war background and spending a lot of my construction work defending the West, I also would be wary of Chinese, in case hidden software could cause a meltdown of reactor. I think if we are dealing with Chinese it should be rubber dolls, and fireworks, but not inherently lethal machines of destruction.

This item was edited on Sunday, 31st July 2016, 10:56

Amazed no one replied, as many of you are within mushroom cloud fallout radius of said power station 

Honestly no one cares, they will make the decision regardless I am afraid

I have no objections to Nuclear power.
I may share a hesitancy over too much Chinese investment in the project but not from your Hollywood/Blairite standpoint Bandi.

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

as I said in your fracking thread

https://www.myreviewer.com/Forums/General/t883766/Frack-off/page1

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The problem we have, is that most of us, want to be able to watch TV, use computers, phones, mp3 players, 24/7, we also want cheap power.

to me frakking sounds great, I don't live near an area where they want to do us, so I can just see the benefits, however I wouldn't want it done in my street.

nuclear power is pretty good, until it goes wrong, so I don't want that in my street either.

there's a biomass dome near me, that doesn't bother me, seems pretty good, however all the people who live in the road that leads down to it, have "no biomass" signs in their window, despite the fact that none of their houses face it , so they don't see it that much and it's not that much of an eye soar.

wind power, those turbines seem to do the job to me pretty well, however ppl that live near wind farms seem to moan about the noise and them being an eye soar.

coal mines, guess we've been there, done that.

solar panels - new builds seem to have them, a few colleagues have them, said they were included in price of house, so it was sensible, they've not seen benefits yet though, however I'm pretty sure the cost of them means it's quite a long time most people will see cost savings.

I read somewhere about some plans to put loads in the desert, but I guess the initial cost is super high, and no-one wants to subsidise, or there's been some brown envelopes being passed around by the power companies to stop it ;)

so well, there we go, we're all selfish, we all want to have our cake and eat it, some-one has to give, probably those with the most money will win.
I recently took a gamble on a cheap Chinese mobile phone, so far so good, not sure I'd take the same risk on a power station though, but this is the world we live in today, as a whole, we don't want to compromise, or pay for quality, we live in a disposable society where we just want everything a cheap as possible and buy a new better one when this one goes wrong, hopefuly some-one will decide that a power station isn't the best place to cut corners. Why am I thinking of Monty Burns now?



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Not sure what the Blarite dtandpoint is all about, as cannot stand the guy taking us into illegal middle east wars, he should be in jail, not collecting millions of pounds. But even if you mention a Holywood senario, well I would agree with that, as it just happened in Japan, you could not have foretold the scenario (holywood script) that radiated the whole country. These power stations are just far to dangerous.

Also agree with mbilko that us, the public, have no say in it. If the government want it to go ahead, it will.

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snaps says.....as I said in your fracking thread
Energy needs have drastically fallen over the decades and the 25% growth over the next twenty years as said in the 80's did not happen, as Thatchers legacy destroyed heavy industry.

Agree there will be some growth, but we have other means of achieving power, and have plenty spinning reserve (instant at hand power) now with wind power farms.  

Oh, and cheap nuclear power is a pipe dream, they said it was so cheap we would get it for nothing, but what they do not tell you is that decommissioning a station back to a safe exposure level brown field site, will take many decades if not over the hundred year mark and billions of pounds. we are far better off without them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nuclear-waste-workers-at-dounreay-power-station-fear-for-their-safety-10108715.html

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bandicoot says...
"Not sure what the Blarite dtandpoint is all about"
Should have been more specific.
WMDs


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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

It wont happen. TM (Wicked witch of the West) will review the amount being paid back... and will refuse to be indebted to that amount to the French/Chinese... and then they will pull the metaphoric plug, so millions wasted on flattening the site, and building the initial infrastructure!

As for living within the cloud... its not that far form us, and have no fear... i grew up in the era of Threads & When the wind blows, so i have pot of white paint for the windows, some tins of beans, and wooden table with sheets to sit under!

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marksparks999 says...
"i grew up in the era of Threads & When the wind blows"
Yeh my dad told me about that. 


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My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary