Nuclear power stations

[bunn]

Have I missed something? Has there been some change in the technology that means that putting new nuclear power stations on a small crowded island that is a target for suicide bombers is a good idea?

Why is it better to make radioactive waste than carbon dioxide?

I thought the whole idea had been more or less written off after Chernobyl.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I thought wind farms were too unreliable? It's hardly immature technology - there are wind farms round here that are many years old, and there was one in North Devon when I was at school - but my understanding was that you'd get brownouts in calms?

Your A B C analysis ties in with the last time that I did any serious reading on the subject, but that was (counts hastily on fingers and comes to truly horrifying conclusion) 17 years ago: surely things have moved on a bit?

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

They reckon that they're by no means as unreliable as people suggest. You don't get calms across the whole country at the same time very often, and when you do you kick in some other stations to pick up the slack. Some of the newer designs can keep generating at very low wind speeds.