I am not so profoundly anti-nuclear as some I encounter, even if naming the technology 'Carbon neutral generation' is a false statement, and even though the private sector will fund the new build and then mysteriously be short of cash having given it all back to shareholders once it comes to decommissioning and thus the Government WILL bear the clean up costs ....
My real problem is this. You don't give a dying man a nice pain killer so that he can continue harming himself - similarly nuclear is like giving a dying man a pain killer. The assumption will be made that 'we've solved climate change' by building more nuclear power plants. I'll bet money that CO2 emissions will increase as a result of this decision.
Far better to invest the hideously large sums of cash being planned for nuclear new build and Trident replacement on incentives for microgeneration and offshore renewables. It would have sent a message too - a message that this is serious problem.
Matt
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I wish people would listen to posts like that.
Mind you, if it worked with Guatanamo...
It took five years, and it still might not work out for Guantanamo.
And what of the costs already suffered, the lives ruined by the truly hopeless and soul destroying situation that is indefinite detention?
Sometimes we just need to keep saying, lokk, this is wrong and it shoudl stop. Like with Fairtrade etc. All the arguments are trotted out week by week but they are substantively the same as those used to argue against the abolition of Slavery.
Wilberforce faced people on all sides telling him 'that's just the way things are' or 'economic systems are too complex to go fiddling wiht on such a sclae' ... ring any bells?
Belligernace, friends, loving beligerrance is my call to arms!
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