Dawning of Britain's 'new nuclear age'

moon said:
Producing poisons that make the earth uninhabitable for thousands of years is ignorant, you poor old capitalist twat, not opposing it.
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You're an incredibly ignorant person, vitrification has been around for 3 decades but you know nothing about it.
 
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Primavera said:
Pathetic gobshite, your impotent threats are just sad.
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It isn't a ' threat ', is it, you poor wee numpty. YOU'RE the ball-less old prick that's dishing out threats of violence from the safety of his rubber room.



Haw, haw...........................................haw.
 
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Brexit Britain set for 'big share' of £250bn market after historic Rolls-Royce deal

BRITAIN's green economy is set to boom as Rolls-Royce can take advantage of a £250billion market after securing £450million in funding for their mini nuclear reactors.

Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactors (SMRs) are, according to the aerospace company, a cheaper and easier way to generate power than traditional nuclear power stations. In fact, it SMRs might just be the cheapest way to achieve net zero energy to power our homes, according to Rolls-Royce’s CTO Paul Stein.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...olls-royce-smr-nuclear-power-green-transition
 
Micawber said:
England, now there's a country that if it was said "we don't do any winning anymore" could really rally around it.
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For the first time in hundreds of years, this year they lost first place in European stock markets. We have not seen an end to their Brexit losing.
 
maggot

Dawning of Britain's 'new nuclear age'
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Poor maggot- desperate and delirious;

"Steve Thomas, a professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich, said: “Despite 65 years of using nuclear power in Britain, we are still, at best, decades away from having facilities to safely dispose of the waste. Until we know this can be done, it is premature to embark on a major new programme of nuclear power plants.”


As Boris Johnson prepares a new push for nuclear power, the £131bn problem of how to safely dispose of vast volumes of radioactive waste created by the last British atomic energy programme remains unsolved.

The hugely expensive and dangerous legacy of the UK’s 20th-century nuclear revolution amounts to 700,000 cubic metres of toxic waste – roughly the volume of 6,000 doubledecker buses. Much of it is stored at Sellafield in Cumbria, which the Office for Nuclear Regulation says is one of the most complex and hazardous nuclear sites in the world.

As yet, there is nowhere to safely and permanently deposit this waste. Nearly 50 years ago the solution of a deep geological disposal facility (GDF) was put forward, but decades later the UK is no nearer to building one.

Experts say new nuclear facilities will only add to the problem of what to do with radioactive waste from nuclear energy and that the “back end” issue of the hazardous toxic waste from the technology must not be hidden. An assessment by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) says spent fuel from new nuclear reactors will be of such high temperatures it would need to stay on site for 140 years before it could be removed to a GDF, if one is ever built in the UK.


https://www.theguardian.com/environ...2WTMo9dd8lWH8r6MijAicdV2RjLOLIm9qY4NpzvoPfJT0
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Primavera said:
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Brexit Britain set for 'big share' of £250bn market after historic Rolls-Royce deal

BRITAIN's green economy is set to boom as Rolls-Royce can take advantage of a £250billion market after securing £450million in funding for their mini nuclear reactors.

Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactors (SMRs) are, according to the aerospace company, a cheaper and easier way to generate power than traditional nuclear power stations. In fact, it SMRs might just be the cheapest way to achieve net zero energy to power our homes, according to Rolls-Royce’s CTO Paul Stein.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...olls-royce-smr-nuclear-power-green-transition
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News Flash: They do no exist, might never exist, this is a dream.
 
I have seen too much in this life to take this sort of thing too seriously until someone has built something that they can show me.
 
Rolls-Royce’s SMR Needs 10,000 Times Less Land Than Wind Energy

This is an undeniable fact, a Rolls Royce SMR has a footprint of 10 acres whereas wind power needs 10,000 acres or nearly 160 square miles to produce the same amount of power. In addition, there are the huge amounts of steel, rare earths like neodymium and praseodymium, copper and concrete to factor in as well.

Rolls-Royce said that it expects to receive regulatory approval from the British government by 2024 for its 470-megawatt small modular reactor and that it will begin producing power on Britains’ electric grid by 2029.


Will that happen? Time will tell. Many nuclear projects have blown past their projected in-service dates. But Rolls-Royce’s announcement is important for two reasons. First, it adds more credence to the notion that a global nuclear renaissance is, in fact, underway. Second, Rolls-Royce’s new 470-megawatt reactor design shows that due to its unsurpassed power density, nuclear energy is the only way we can produce electricity at scale while preserving the natural environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Why? The power density of the nuclear plants Rolls-Royce plans to build will need 10,000 times less land than a wind project and about 1,000 times less land than what will be required by a solar project. Due to their astonishingly high power density, the new nuclear plants will need far fewer resources like land, steel, neodymium, copper, and concrete which proves what I have dubbed the Iron Law of Power Density. More on that in a moment.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robert...es-iron-law-of-power-density/?sh=4a2ff57198f0
 
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I still dont see it. You just say the word nuclear in the US and you are hit with so many lawsuits it would be impossible to get anything of the ground. Even if the government were funding this you ould still have to hit benchmarks to access tranches of funding and while you dont you are paying out of pocket to defend against lawsuits.

Its not really just nuclear its renewables too. The Hoover Dam was completed in 5 years. I doubt you ould eve have the proper permits and environmental studies done in that time period in our age not to mention all the lawsuits again.

Really the only thing that can be build, that the west will allow itself to build , is small scale solar (i.e. residential) or smaller wind farms.
 
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