Ireland and nuclear power?

maninasia

Too much electricity... sell it back to Europe or use it in smelter or industries that require large amounts of cheap electricity and create jobs.
Nuclear power is the logical answer regarding energy worries and global warming, however Irish people are not conditioned to be self sufficient and depend on other countries to wipe our asses.

irish_bob

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Bull. There are green energy operators in the country already, so that the monopoly argument over and done with. Staff & technicians can be retrained.



Their problem, not the country's as a whole. They can be retrained, as said above. Some union members should not be allowed to direct where our energy comes from, in order to 'protect' their cushy jobs.

The main reason we do not have nuclear power / more green power in this country is the absolute ignorance of the majority of the populous.

There have been many threads on this subject here before. People complain that wind turbines ruin their view, nuclear power is unsafe etc etc. Its so BS it's not even funny.

Places like the US, UK, France etc have been running nuclear power programmes for years with little or no trouble.

Sure, there have been accidents, but they're mostly confined to badly managed & funded power stations, or in the case of Cherbobyl, where political ambition of the plant manager clouds the safety of the plant itself.

We don't just want Nuclear Power, or require a supplement to the grid. We NEED Nuclear Power.

We could also do with a hell of a lot more wind turbines, water turbiines etc etc. But the Goverment aren;t willing to say "Lets do it". Never mind the current main energy company ESB, who are happy to maintain their profits on aging, expensive, and dirty power generation.

as ive said before many times , us irish are a very easy people to scare , you cant get a mobile phone mast errected in rural ireland without a hysterical mob organising an all out opposition campaign