Comments on: A Nuclear Ireland? http://www.stephenkinsella.net/2008/09/28/a-nuclear-ireland/ classes/papers/rants Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:24:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: simon http://www.stephenkinsella.net/2008/09/28/a-nuclear-ireland/#comment-12057 simon Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:59:25 +0000 http://www.stephenkinsella.net/?p=1495#comment-12057 There is many issues behind Nuclear energy that no one in Ireland ever addresses and yet are as vital for contributing to the debate as anything. For instance. I have done a degree in Physics in Ireland and the amount that is thought about nuclear energy is quiet minimal. We in Ireland simply do not have the knowledge base to run nuclear power stations. We have little or no nuclear research. So to create the talent pool to educate about this we would have to start importing the knowledge and the staff in large quantities. Also recoverable resources are around 5,469,000 not 14 million. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html This gives us a reserve of 80 years. Considering so many more countries are planning to build now . That is probably 50 years. Other things that have to be remembered are that while Uranium is cheap and the amount used is low. The cost of building nuclear reators are high and the materials used are rising in price. The time to plan to build them is long and their are backlogs. I have written before about it. http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2008/07/29/nuclear-power-and-the-future/ There is many issues behind Nuclear energy that no one in Ireland ever addresses and yet are as vital for contributing to the debate as anything. For instance. I have done a degree in Physics in Ireland and the amount that is thought about nuclear energy is quiet minimal. We in Ireland simply do not have the knowledge base to run nuclear power stations. We have little or no nuclear research. So to create the talent pool to educate about this we would have to start importing the knowledge and the staff in large quantities.

Also recoverable resources are around 5,469,000 not 14 million.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html
This gives us a reserve of 80 years. Considering so many more countries are planning to build now . That is probably 50 years.

Other things that have to be remembered are that while Uranium is cheap and the amount used is low. The cost of building nuclear reators are high and the materials used are rising in price. The time to plan to build them is long and their are backlogs.

I have written before about it.
http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2008/07/29/nuclear-power-and-the-future/

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