publius“The Transuranium Elements” (1963)
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publiusScooping things up out of the ground and setting them on fire is no way to run a civilization.
Neither is cutting down trees and setting them on fire. We knew that by 1700.
Fortunately there is a solution which works very well with existing industrial capabilities. France deployed it very successfully in the 1980s, replacing its existing fossil-fuel electric generation and keeping up with rapid demand growth. And it's sustainable.
I've taken the tours at Torness, Sizewell, and Hartlepool, as well as visited the disused sites at Dungeness and Bradwell-on-Sea, but Heysham I've not yet got to. My friend @stug got me a Heysham totebag though.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bradwell-on-sea-146181696
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dungeness-power-143089601
https://www.patreon.com/posts/torness-visitor-110698152
https://www.patreon.com/posts/target-of-109705552
(Lots photos linked at no charge)
Opponents of nuclear energy really will just say anything.
An official advisor to the South Korean government says that the average nuclear power reactor has five unscheduled outages a year. Based on available data, I find the correct value to be more like one every five years.
Someone says, “you must love meltdowns and evacuations and contaminated land”.
I say, I don’t really care about those things. The USSR is dead, the RBMKs are on their way out, and in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami that killed 20 000 people, the radioactivity at the Fukushima Dai–Ichi boundary fence never reached the level required under international standards to trigger an evacuation.
Energy for making PV panels and wind turbines comes from fossil fuels.
Just uploaded today's A STEP FARTHER OUT. Listen every Saturday at 19 UTC (in about half an hour) at anonradio.net — a service of the SDF Public Access Unix System.
#AtomicPowerToThePeople
#anonradio
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A solution was found about 70 years ago. It has worked wherever it has been implemented. Pity it's illegal in Australia.
Thanks to @stug for handling this PAL VHS transfer. Unfortunately the tape was not in good condition, and the resulting video is quite glitchy. Nevertheless, “The Generating Force” is a very interesting snapshot of the British nuclear industry at the beginning of 1994, and the turmoil caused by the Thatcher decision to privatize electricity supply.
“The Generating Force” (1994, bad version)
“The Generating Force” (1994, bad version)
“The Generating Force” (1994, bad version)
If you want to get out of fossil fuels, you need something which does the same job but better. We have that. We've had it for well over 50 years, and there has long been opposition to it precisely because it has proven capable of displacing fossil fuels.