As we pass Peak Oil and move into an age of environmental awareness, I'm amazed that there are still people out there who are against Britain developing and building new nuclear power stations.
Where do these people think we're going to get our future energy from? I don't want to see the country covered in little wind turbines. It always rains so solar power is out. Or would they prefer us to devolve back into cavemen using fire for heating and lighting?
The simple reality is that for too long successive governments have been loathe, for whatever reason, to invest in nuclear power. As a result, we now find ourselves in a situation where much of our energy is bought from overseas as we have to rely on oil and gas exports.
Yes, it'll be expensive to develop nuclear power stations in the short term, but it buys something far more valuable in the long-term. And that is secure energy provision. We won't be at the mercy of a volatile Middle East or Russia. And gone are the days of Chernobyl and Windscale (now Sellafield).
I never thought I'd agree with a Labour government, but finally they've seen sense.
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Absolutely agreed! Nuclear, for the next generation or two, is the way to produce the 'base load'. We bury the waste with an apology to future generations and promise ourselves to find the next technology (fusion?).
ReplyDeleteBut the Government must also mandate micro-generation - i.e. every house, every building, every community must produce part of its own energy.
Yes, there will be protests that we don't want to see ugly wind turbines on every house or roofs covered in solar panels. But guess what, we'll get used to it just as we have with TV aerials and satellite dishs.
Enough FREE energy blows across and shines upon each of us every day - quite why we don't grab some is astonishing!
Spot on young chap. I read an article some time ago by Dick Taverne on nuclear power.
ReplyDeleteHe claims that a zap of radiation from a nuclear power station does you no harm at all, it's what they use to treat cancer. He claims that levels of cancer are much lower than expectd around Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On the other hand he may have had a zap of something dodgy himself!