The End Of A Nuclear Fuel Power Station - United Kingdom

[bananas]

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Brought down 20 May 2007 (09:00 am)
From the source: "An eyesore that could be view for over 40 miles away that dominated the sky line."

[NNadir]

1. And these towers would compare to the Drax Plant coal cooling towers how?

As far as I can see, the only difference between the Drax coal cooling towers, is that the coal based cooling towers, attached to a plant that routinely dumps dangerous fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere concerns you not a whit.

Here's another view of the Drax coal plant cooling towers. This will give you another opportunity to demonstrate that you don't give a shit about them, and neither does RestoreGore and JPak, owner of several "world's largest solar stations."



Notice the huge piles of coal in the foreground.

Oh wait a minute...notice...??!??

:rofl:

I forgot to whom I am talking.

The Drax plant burns 36,000 tons of filthy coal per day, releasing 20.8 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2005 alone. It produces 7% of the electricity in UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_power_station

The Drax plant all by itself produces more carbon dioxide than 103 of the world's poorest nations. It is considered a "clean coal" plant, inspite of the indiscriminate dumping of million ton quantities of dangerous fossil fuel waste.

I guess it all comes down to how one sees things.

I'm sure, if you pause to spend two seconds thinking about such things, you're thrilled by it.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. And, from the Wikipedia article:

However, it is still the cleanest and most efficient coal-fired power station in the UK due to its relative youth and investment in pollution-reduction technologies.

So it only goes downhill from that lovely standard? This is the best they got? Great. Just great.

[NNadir]

3. Yes, this is "clean coal" writ large. More than 20 million tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste

per year dumped into the atmosphere with no restrictions.

Every time a cooling tower from a nuclear power plant is blow up because of the efforts of reflexive nuclear opponents, something like this dangerous fossil fuel plant is built.

Every time. There are no exceptions. Everywhere you look, from Maine, to Oregon, to the UK the inane destruction of nuclear facilities has the same outcome, more dangerous fossil fuels mined, more burned and more waste.

[Dead_Parrot]

4. To be fair, the shutdown of chapelcross was hardly inane

After all, it had been running since the 50's: Next time you're musing the millions of reactor hours we've learned from, it's worth remembering that a lot of the earliest hours were chalked up on these reactors. No-one died there, the The dangerous nuclear waste that kills everyone for a brazillion years has already been reprocessed and is in other reactors, and unless the I've-Got-A-Solar-Powered-TV-In-My-Cabin crowd chuck a spanner in the works, BNFL has the site earmarked for up to 6 AP-1000s which would dwarf the output of the 4 old magnoxes.

The end of a of a very successful experiment? Yup. The end of the road? Maybe not.

[NNadir]

5. This is true. In general though, many reactors have been shut because of public stupidity.

The reactors I am most worried about are those in Germany, reactors that are under threat because of public stupidity.

As I point out many times, the coal facilities that will replace these nuclear power plants are already under construction, 26 of them at last count.

That matter is a serious threat to all humanity.

It is interesting to note that Chapelcross 2 once melted down. They rebuilt the reactor and restarted it.

The thread here of course was produced by a reflexive anti-nuclear opponent who engages in "nuclear exceptionalism" - the fraudulent practice whereby matters that apply to <em>the alternatives</em> to nuclear are only examined in the nuclear case.

Let's be clear. What replaced the Chapelcross reactors - and they were all <em>small</em> reactors = is fossil fuels. Thus their cloture is an unfortunate reflection of poor planning. The replacement reactors should be near finish, not merely proposed.

I note that Greenpeace morons are fighting new nuclear power in the UK, using highly immoral and unethical court delays to work to make climate change an even worse disaster. In effect the immoral trust fund brats who belong to this consumer organization working to keep the Drax plant killing for as long as is possible.