http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2009/10/government-finally-owns-up-to-big-nuclear-subsidy/ Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:16:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2009/10/government-finally-owns-up-to-big-nuclear-subsidy/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Andy Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:28:08 +0000 http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/?p=457#comment-176 Claiming that Nuclear is in anyway "green" is bizarre. Running the power station may be zero-carbon but building and de-commissioning it surely is not. Cost of building a thousands of windmill is peanuts compared to building one nuclear power station. Time to build thousands of windmills (a couple of years) vs time to build nuclear power stations (decades). Cost of worst-case windmill failures: low. Cost of minor nuclear accident: very high(!) - even the slightlest accident could render the whole facility useless. And there are examples of Windscale fire, 3 mile island and Chernobyl to consider. The only reason as far as I can tell for endorsing nuclear power is to have enough nuclear scientists around to siphon off some for bomb production! Claiming that Nuclear is in anyway “green” is bizarre. Running the power station may be zero-carbon but building and de-commissioning it surely is not.
Cost of building a thousands of windmill is peanuts compared to building one nuclear power station.
Time to build thousands of windmills (a couple of years) vs time to build nuclear power stations (decades).
Cost of worst-case windmill failures: low. Cost of minor nuclear accident: very high(!) – even the slightlest accident could render the whole facility useless. And there are examples of Windscale fire, 3 mile island and Chernobyl to consider.
The only reason as far as I can tell for endorsing nuclear power is to have enough nuclear scientists around to siphon off some for bomb production!

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