Originally Posted by Bernie Barfly (Post 9273995)

You'll have to wait until he's finished bombing the muslim world:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Swerv-o (Post 9275477)

Yes, this is very true. In the same way that nobody wants wind generators, solar furnaces or flooded valleys in their back yards either. But eventually you have to be pragmatic and over rule the NIMBYs - the physics of energy generation alone mean that the energy has to come from somewhere.

Things like wind turbines and HEP have to be built where they will be most effective. Coastlines are a very natural place to build wind turbines, yet nobody wants the view spoiled. You could of course build them out at sea, but then the cost of building and maintaining them also increases, so their payback time is much longer. It's also all very well saying that pumped water storage is the answer, but you would certainly struggle to get that working in East Anglia or the Netherlands. But the NIMBYs are all the same - it doesn't matter how clean the generation method, they still don't want their view ruined.

An awful lot of Sydneysiders seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that there's a nuclear reactor on their very doorstep at Lucas Heights - about 34 km from the CBD. Yet the number of people that keep saying "I'm so glad that we don't live near anything like that" when discussing Fukushima quite surprises me.


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Originally Posted by JustBecause (Post 9275647)

Yep, my parents live on the Kent Coast & they recently stuck a load of wind turbines in the sea - it totally ruins the horizon. At least if they had a power plant next door they could still look out to sea with an unblemished view.

Originally Posted by EvannTel (Post 9276560)

Tell them to move to Dungeness!

Like a lot of windfarms, nuclear power plants are often built by the sea for a reason.

Originally Posted by Swerv-o (Post 9275477)

An awful lot of Sydneysiders seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that there's a nuclear reactor on their very doorstep at Lucas Heights - about 34 km from the CBD. Yet the number of people that keep saying "I'm so glad that we don't live near anything like that" when discussing Fukushima quite surprises me.


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Originally Posted by LittleKittyCat (Post 9278325)

I live near to the Lucas Heights reactor, we looked in to it before we bought the house, but it didn't bother us really. I think they use something like 25kg of uranium (rather than the hundreds of tonnes in a power reactor).

Originally Posted by spartacus (Post 9278444)

Was that wise? Did they provide safety goggles?

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 9278447)

and paper face masks?

Originally Posted by spartacus (Post 9278474)

Only if I can be Princess Leia.


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Originally Posted by spartacus (Post 9278474)

Only if I can be Princess Leia.


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Originally Posted by Dreamy (Post 9278478)

I've always imagined you as more of an Ewok

Originally Posted by bcworld (Post 9278477)

Fukushima: Scottish sites detect radioactive iodine

More locations around Scotland have recorded very low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be from Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

The chemical was detected in air samples in Lerwick in Shetland and in grass samples near Dounreay in Caithness.

Radioactive Iodine found adjacent to Scottish nuclear facility...it must've been the Japanese wot did it! :D