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That is not the reason it should be built IMO. It should be built so we spend no money on imported fossil fuels for electricity generation, saving us money. Also the electricity it produces is extremely cheap. Cheaper electricity would be good for the citizens of Ireland and the businesses of this country. Cheaper utilities for business in particular will give them wider profits and encourage job creation and innovation.Originally Posted by PhoenixIreland
Don't the plants cost a holy fortune and long time to build?
I heard one plant costs approximately 3billion euro and would take 5 years to become operational. One plant could provide over 100% of our electricity, we can sell the surplus electricity to Britain and the continent through the interconnector.
That is fission, safer Nuclear fusion, which is considered the future of electricity generation is very close. The French are going to have the worlds first large scale fusion reactor producing electricity in 2018 Cadarache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seems the Iranians built one rather quickly.
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I live about ten miles from the sea. Since a nuke would almost certainly be built on the coast somewhere, I'd gladly swap my house for one near to a nuke, and with a nice view of the sea
On the question posed by the OP, we should at least start looking into it, without making any commitment. The present policy and legal situation is completely indefensible. Circumstances have changed over the last ten years and the situation should be reviewed.
There's plenty of Uranium in the world though - no need to go digging up Donegal looking for it.
Anerobic digestion has yet to be proven on a large scale
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Anaerobic Digestion has been proved over many years and mostly in other European countries. It is used on a considerable amount of Irish municipal waste water treatment plants, and CHP is the result of this process.
The key is to get the technology working on a smaller scale, the main delays are planning, and the cost/kw back to grid, there are of course other logistics that need to be considered like feed-stock waste, but as landfills are now going being banned and closed there are plenty of waste streams Payback on cap-ex is circa 5-7 years. Rabobank are big supporters of AD and they have funded many smaller farm-based plants in Europe for the past 20 years.
Ireland needs to get its head out of the sand and look to all sorts of alternative energy sources, including wind-wave and AD.
AD means the producers of waste, actually get paid a gate fee/ton, instead of having to pay to have it taken away....
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I don't disfavour building a Nuclear powerplant in Ireland. They could build it next door to my house, they are safe enough. And one could tap off the excess heat from tertiary cooling systems to heat housing.
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