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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 14:08:37 GMT
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Post by starlilolill on Sept 22, 2015 14:26:22 GMT
No the third one isn't at Hinkley - and it is untried and untested -it is at another site in Essex. I may have the name wrong but that isn't really the point. Check it out for yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 14:35:32 GMT
There are 3 proposed, possibly 4
One is at Hinkley point in Somerset, which is the one currently in the news.
One could be at Bradwell, Essex
One could be at Sizewell, Suffolk
And possibly one further one at Oldbury-on Severn, Gloucestershire.
It is a very misleading and scaremongering statement to say they are untried and untested. France generates some 40% of it's electricity by nuclear. Every new nuclear plant in the world is untried until it is fuelled up and running, but the designs are very well established.
Your statement is akin to saying every car sold is untried and untested. It is until you drive it, but that is a gross misinterpretation of the facts.
PS, I don't need to 'check it out'. My company supplies all UK nuclear power stations and does work on them. And at the last check no-one here glowed in the dark.
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Post by starlilolill on Sept 22, 2015 15:53:05 GMT
The difference would appear to be that the one at Bradwell (sorry for the wrong name in previous post) is going to be solely Chinese nuclear plant - the French have no input on that one as I understand it from the news last night.
I do like a good discussion but all I find on here is agression. I know it is an 'Oldies' board but you are obviously not a retired person - just a grumpy one.
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Post by arfurmo on Sept 22, 2015 16:34:12 GMT
The difference would appear to be that the one at Bradwell (sorry for the wrong name in previous post) is going to be solely Chinese nuclear plant - the French have no input on that one as I understand it from the news last night. I do like a good discussion but all I find on here is agression. I know it is an 'Oldies' board but you are obviously not a retired person - just a grumpy one. Look to yourself my dear You are the one that uses 'rubbish', 'for God's sake', 'FFS', Cobblers yet again, Perhaps you don't know how to Google etc
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Post by anybody on Sept 23, 2015 8:35:12 GMT
Utilities were under state supervision ,until Thatcher turned up with her sell everything policy,so she'd look good. She severely damaged our economy and nothing can be done now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 8:51:21 GMT
The difference would appear to be that the one at Bradwell (sorry for the wrong name in previous post) is going to be solely Chinese nuclear plant - the French have no input on that one as I understand it from the news last night. I do like a good discussion but all I find on here is agression. I know it is an 'Oldies' board but you are obviously not a retired person - just a grumpy one. I am not in the least grumpy, but from what I have seen here you don't like it if someone disagrees with you. I try and do it in a fairly civilised way. With regard to safety I will relate a little true story. Sellarfield in Cumbria (formerly Calder Hall) used to run 'open days'. I don't know if they still do as I haven't been there for some 10 years. Those tours were for groups of people, maybe engineers, physicists or indeed the general public. When you go in you are given a film badge to wear, and when you come out you are routinely monitored for any contamination. There are no exceptions. On one particular occasion a chap coming out registered contaminations, so there was a great deal of concern, and his movements within the site were very carefully analysed. What became apparent was he had been nowhere near a 'hot' area, so a bit more digging was done. It turned out that he had picked up the contamination at a nuclear site in Germany. They had not noticed it, but we did which I think tells anyone who knows anything at all about these things that our safety systems are as good if not better than anywhere in the world. I get a bit upset by people regarding nuclear power as some dreadful Armageddon type scenario. What a lot of people don't know is that a coal fired power station chucks out radioactive contamination. Very low doses, but measurable.
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Post by arfurmo on Sept 23, 2015 9:04:30 GMT
Utilities were under state supervision ,until Thatcher turned up with her sell everything policy,so she'd look good. She severely damaged our economy and nothing can be done now. I disagree Our economy is now far stronger than it was in 1979 when failing industries were kept afloat by the State
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Post by goldelox on Sept 23, 2015 9:06:26 GMT
As I understand it, a lot of mild radiation comes from solar flares.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 9:21:35 GMT
As I understand it, a lot of mild radiation comes from solar flares. We are bombarded with it Goldelox. If we didn't have an atmosphere we would fry. Well we would evaporate but the residues would fry.....
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Post by ARENA on Sept 23, 2015 9:22:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 11:10:35 GMT
Thinking about radioactive contamination. I used to do some work at Aldermaston. Most was routine but there was one 'Hot' area where I had to go and service/repair a piece of kit.
I would be suited and badged, and have a small sampling device to monitor the air I was breathing - a bit like a modern oxygen feed you see with some people in wheelchairs.
They would not let me take my own tools in, they had everything I needed. But I had to take my own spare parts, and those that were not used would be encased in concrete and dumped in the Atlantic. I had to make a list of everything I took in, and whether it was used or not it would be paid for.
It was amazing how many scrap circuit boards and other items seemed to find their way into my kit, just in case!
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