[BNM] [OT] Brighton's nuclear power station?

[Nick Taylor]

 > Nick,
 >
> Being so close to Brighton, whats your view on having a power station
> on your doorstep ?
 >
 > Olly



Thanks for asking Olly.


The thing about nuke power, is that the degree of damage that they do if 
they fuck up is huge... so anywhere in Southern England would 
essentially be on my doorstep... if say, it did a Chernobyl, and if I 
lived in Southern England.

Personally I think they're very bad Systems Design. They lack resilience 
- against natural disasters, man made disasters and changing technology. 
In addition to this, systems where electricity needs to travel huge 
distances is incredibly wasteful... for example, with the current UK 
system about 60% of the energy created goes straight up as heat.

The best option at the moment is looking like small CHP systems similar 
to the ones used in Scandinavia, Holland... and Woking weirdly enough. 
I've heard that moves are afoot to set them up in London as well - Ken 
Livingston was looking into it, though I'm not sure what the status of 
that is.

It takes about a year (as opposed to ten) to build a CHP station, they 
can take a variety of fuels, they're a LOT more efficient, you don't 
wind up with toxic waste that costs a billion £ a year to store... and 
if part of the system goes down, the rest of it isn't affected. In 
addition to all this, decentralized power allows for swappable 
modules... so if/when a better technology turns up, you're not stuck 
with the old monolithic ones for the next 50 years.

So that's what I think.

Really doorstep or not isn't that much of an issue. This is my planet. I 
don't care where they are.



Nick