[Stoat]

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Nuclear option

THE eye-watering hike in gas and electricity prices should tell us all that cheap energy is already a distant memory.

Britain is at the wrong end of a long and unreliable gas pipeline which starts in Russia and flows through countries which will put their own customers first.

Nuclear power is our only independent option.

We have already wasted too much precious time.

Unless we act fast, we may soon have to think twice before boiling a kettle or switching on the lights.

[biff]

Looks like the ole Brits are smarter than us, or at least more realistic.

[rb22982]

Now, if only we could get started ASAP in the USA.

[coconutt2000]

Unless we act fast, we may soon have to think twice before boiling a kettle or switching on the lights.

This is what happens when one threatens a Brit's tea.

[thinking]

“We must not rely on other nations”

There is a message here.......

[Army Air Corps]

Good for the UK! Screw the Enviroweenie Luddites.

[TheZMan]

Good for them. I’ve already gotten to the point I turn off all the lights in the house. The kids are trained to never leave a room with the light on. I think the majority of my electric bill comes from running FreeRepublic =P

Maybe one day we’ll wake up and start doing the same. I have no problem charging an electric car if it costs me practically nothing to do so.

[VOA]

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[Cicero]

Who’d have thought that the U.K. under Gordon Brown would have more sense about solving the power crisis than America?

[SERKIT]

A friend of the family is a nuclear engineer. He described a German-designed reactor to be built in South Africa under the supervision of the US-NRC. The design calls for a cylinders filled with small spheres of nuclear material. As the nuclear power decays, they remove the spheres from the bottom, rejuvenate the sphere and put it back in the top. This type of generator is cleaner and somehow not referred to as a breeder. It is supposed to be the safest and most cost-effective nuclear power plant ever designed. Where is one for us?

[PAR35]

Are the Germans still planning to shut down all their plants?

[dodger]

But for the Radical lefty anti-nukers of the 1980’s — now ranting about global warming — we would be energy independent today and the Arab oilers would be far, far less strategically powerful.

Amazing none of the Republicans have hammered this point ....

[JerseyHighlander]

http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/Careers/index.shtm

[JerseyHighlander]

This comes out on the same day that Gov. Corzine in New Jersey has his spokesmen come out and say that NJ will reach our greenhouse gas reduction goals by building one, if not two new nuclear power plants.

As reported by AP on Oct 30 from Lisbon, Portugal—[NJ’s] Governor Corzine dashed across the Atlantic on Monday to join an international coalition that is waging a battle against global warming — and to vault New Jersey into the forefront of the fight. Corzine signed onto a pact with Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain that supporters say confronts head-on the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Other members of the new International Carbon Action Partnership are California, New York and British Columbia.

[Labour-Watch]

The new reactors will be Pressurized Water Reactors like the one at Sizewell 'B':



and will be nothing like the antique gas/graphite reactor in the Sun photo.

It's hard to believe that someone in Labour has finally comes to their senses; unfortunately Brown will have a struggle with his comrades to see it through.

[Tribune7]

Good for the UK. I hope we are close behind.