tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post79696736495109189..comments2023-12-09T07:21:51.160+00:00Comments on The Druid: Fighting for Anglesey: Quote of the Day (Nuclear-edition) (updated)Paul Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01021606156107333019noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-18120536074074459132011-04-13T09:43:52.772+01:002011-04-13T09:43:52.772+01:00the situation at Fukushima is now officially as ba...the situation at Fukushima is now officially as bad as happened at chernobyl. The problem is as I understand it that the back up cooling system failed. It does not matter therefore why it failed, a bomb,an earthquake, an act of war etc. the system and safety measures put in place have failed.<br />If you want a few jobs from a new nuclear plant on this island be careful what you wish for. I do so hope that MCT (marine current technology) works out. Tides are both reliable and fairly well understood in this part of the world, and Bangor University is well placed to contribute to the development of the technology and to generate more local jobs in the research and manufacturing that will be required.the outsidernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-44431811945642626472011-04-04T22:06:01.465+01:002011-04-04T22:06:01.465+01:00On oter matters, India has just ad a 5.7 quake. Gu...On oter matters, India has just ad a 5.7 quake. Guess what was nearby - 2 nuclear reactors.<br /><br />http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/Atomic-power-stations-in-quake-hit-North-India-safe-NPCIL/Article1-An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-15397288578424754862011-03-26T15:20:10.652+00:002011-03-26T15:20:10.652+00:00Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near ...Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, two weeks after the nuclear power plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami.<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8408419/Japan-nuclear-crisis-Radioactive-seawater-surrounds-stricken-plant.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-48170574259890975402011-03-24T09:45:10.539+00:002011-03-24T09:45:10.539+00:00"Two workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant r..."Two workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant reactor three have been hospitalised after being exposed to high levels of radiation."<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8403136/Japan-nuclear-crisis-two-of-Fuskushima-50-hospitilised-with-radiation-exposure.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-36007234090728408362011-03-24T02:57:11.700+00:002011-03-24T02:57:11.700+00:00Paul you are most certainly not a mouthpiece but a...Paul you are most certainly not a mouthpiece but almost as certainly speaking out of of the other part of that extremity of the human body!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-89571475917072375492011-03-23T20:42:49.218+00:002011-03-23T20:42:49.218+00:00Prometheus - It's also designed to force rents...Prometheus - It's also designed to force rents down in the private sector by stopping private sector landlords milking the benefit system.<br /><br />Whether it will work or not remains to be seen and given that most landlords are probably tory voters and given the amount that are BTL and therefore be in a very difficult position should interest rates rise but be unable to pass it on to their tenants, then it is potentially suicidal for the tories to persue this. Coupled with their aims to raise council rents bit by bit until they are on par with market levels and within a few years people at the bottom end are going to be extremly squeezed.<br /><br />But we're in this together I'm glad to note.An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-22070388942506529322011-03-23T19:44:36.167+00:002011-03-23T19:44:36.167+00:00This is off topic, but deserves consideration. I&#...This is off topic, but deserves consideration. I'm not criticizing the council as I think they are showing foresight in warning us what is going be happening.<br /><br />Looking at the Anglesey Council's web site and the announcement about changes to housing benefits, brought about by new measures introduced by the coalition government it says:<br /><br />"There will be a reduction in the Local Housing Allowance rates for new claimants and within 9 months of their annual review for current claimants i.e. so that about 3 in 10 properties for rent in the area should be affordable to people on Housing Benefit. At the moment about 5 in 10 properties are affordable".<br /><br />I had to read this twice as it says that there will be reduction of 20% in affordable rentable housing for people receiving housing benefit.<br /><br />Given the concerns raised, by pundits and various politicians, that the least well-off in the population are being the hardest hit by these cuts, this policy will inevitably create hardship for our poorest residents.Prometheuswriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02576137015868454301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-46054496496222655592011-03-23T17:42:01.995+00:002011-03-23T17:42:01.995+00:00Photon - I don't consider myself a 'mouthp...Photon - I don't consider myself a 'mouthpiece', but I do think local people, on both sides of the argument, are interested in what the developer of Wylfa B is saying in light of the incidents at Fukushima.Paul Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01021606156107333019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-29610885526105443022011-03-23T17:08:20.000+00:002011-03-23T17:08:20.000+00:00Photon, you need to get out of the house a bit mor...Photon, you need to get out of the house a bit more mate. Weather is really nice out today you should stop stop slaving over your hot blog and go and smell the fresh air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-51857830455429757132011-03-23T16:25:36.546+00:002011-03-23T16:25:36.546+00:00I think it has to be said that Horion ought to be ...I think it has to be said that Horion ought to be careful not to use local politicans and their blogs as mouthpieces for their industry.<br /><br />Paul can be in favour if he chooses, but he musn't forget he might soon represent people who aren't quite so welcoming of nuclear on the island.Photonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10137649851898638015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-34787577971159787642011-03-23T12:02:21.104+00:002011-03-23T12:02:21.104+00:00It would appear that George Monbiot was after all ...It would appear that George Monbiot was after all only auditioning for the part of the typewriter in a new version of David Cronenberg's film adaption of William S. Burroughs book, 'The Naked Lunch'.<br /><br />For those of you that haven't seen this cult film the typwriter in question communicates by means of a 'talking asshole' in the middle of the keyboard.<br /><br />All the better for Monbiot to eat his own words ...<br /><br />(Tokyo's tap water is unfit for babies to drink after radiation from Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant affected the capital's water supply, officials said.) - BBC today.Pucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-25719051445090502152011-03-23T10:15:59.117+00:002011-03-23T10:15:59.117+00:00@Richard Sletzer said...
"without the slight...@<b>Richard Sletzer said...</b><br /><br /><i>"without the slightest public consultation."</i><br /><br />I believe these did take place and were known as 'elections'. The fact that the people kept voting a certain way could be said to be merely a reflection of the piss-poor alternatives.An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-17334287642811529652011-03-23T09:12:50.732+00:002011-03-23T09:12:50.732+00:00I prefer the sentence when it has the extra 'd...I prefer the sentence when it has the extra 'don't' in it.kpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-55217570394636359792011-03-23T09:05:52.569+00:002011-03-23T09:05:52.569+00:00CORRECTION - Sorry - one too many "don't&...CORRECTION - Sorry - one too many "don't"s in the first sentence of the previous post.<br /><br />...That's what comprehensive education does for you!Richard Sletzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-9345861100907379732011-03-23T08:59:04.689+00:002011-03-23T08:59:04.689+00:00Seriously, I don't believe the people of Angle...Seriously, I don't believe the people of Anglesey don't need to be worried about nuclear power - but - given the way things have happened on the island in the past - I can understand why they are concerned.<br /><br />That's because of the terrible track-record of Anglesey Council Council over the last 50 years which has seen the imposition of one crazy socialist experiment after another on the population - without the slightest public consultation.<br /><br />Anglesey was the first local authority to destroy its (excellent) grammar schools and replace them with socialist-inspired comprehensive schools. There was no public consultation. Now we know what a disaster that decision was. <br /><br />Anglesey Council Council also became the first council to introduce the deliberate poisoning of the island's water supplies in 1955 with sodium fluoride in a crazy socialist mass-medication experiment worthy of North Korea. Again there was no public consultation. <br /><br />"Anglesonians" (as I suppose we must now call ourselves) were never told they should NOT be using fluoride toothpaste because that, along with the water, took their daily dose above safe levels. <br /><br />When fluoridation finally petered out in 1992, Anglesey County Council - true to form as ever- again decided not even to inform, never mind consult, the people of the island. Probably they didn't want to publicly admit to having been wrong for 37 years.Richard Sletzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-3507247301180225362011-03-22T23:26:22.302+00:002011-03-22T23:26:22.302+00:00Puzzled I am....
I worked on the construction of ...Puzzled I am....<br /><br />I worked on the construction of Wylfa and have supported the proposal of Wylfa B<br /><br />BUT<br /><br />What would we be doing now if Nuclear Power Generation had never been invented?? I am sure we would be surviving in some other way. Could it be that inventors, scientists and of course the money men have always taken the 'easy option'?<br /><br />Anglesey IslanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-91918068157822559702011-03-22T20:38:48.600+00:002011-03-22T20:38:48.600+00:00Anon 19.51
Nothing wrong with the search engines,...Anon 19.51<br /><br />Nothing wrong with the search engines, just my fingers and my brain.Prometheuswriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02576137015868454301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-11806327906234072462011-03-22T19:51:35.972+00:002011-03-22T19:51:35.972+00:00PW, isn't it TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co) n...PW, isn't it TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co) not TAPCO? Or maybe the search engines are smart enough to correct these things these days.<br /><br />Anyway, a quick overview of the lies and errors in the recent history of the Japanese nuclear power industry can be found on the New Scientist website:<br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20263-japans-record-of-nuclear-coverups-and-accidents.html<br /><br />"the Chinese can knock a power station out in a couple of weeks"<br /><br />Not a nuclear one they can't. Pressure vessels and similar specialised essential components have a very limited number of suppliers (Sheffield Forgemasters being one?). Obviously that situation could change in a year or three, but right now these suppliers allegedly have long queues of people waiting for product. Well, they did. Not sure they still will; I don't think Monbiot is convincing anyone, and nor are TEPCO and friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-86474173665781038952011-03-22T19:37:44.931+00:002011-03-22T19:37:44.931+00:00So Red Flag, I reckon it would take them a month t...So Red Flag, I reckon it would take them a month to build Wylfa B, and the last week would be spent tidying up after them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-62132695962316223402011-03-22T19:10:58.312+00:002011-03-22T19:10:58.312+00:00Anon - I lived in Hong Kong in the 80's. We ...Anon - I lived in Hong Kong in the 80's. We watched them build Shenzhen on tyhe Sino-Hong Kong border. They changed a collection of little hamlets consisting of less than 50,000 people in total into a city of over a million in less than 2 years complete with factories, schools, hospitals, water works - the full monty.An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-45832020470022608512011-03-22T18:50:43.060+00:002011-03-22T18:50:43.060+00:00In China, they can knock a power station out in a ...In China, they can knock a power station out in a couple of weeks, when they had an earthquake in China, they knocked up a 1000 bed hospital in a week, incredible, if they were to come here and build Wylfa B, by the time the job applications were printed and sent to the jobcentre the place would have been built.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-64274104544233120372011-03-22T18:45:06.769+00:002011-03-22T18:45:06.769+00:00Little over 400 uranium burning reactors.
80 year...Little over 400 uranium burning reactors.<br /><br />80 years of uranium at current rate of usage. Should all the uranium reactors planned for the next 20 years be built then a around 40-50 years worth of uranium is all there actually is. In 25-30 years or so the price of uranium will make it cost prohibitive for a lot of countries unless they have their own internal supply (such as Australia or Russia). At the same time we will be well into 'peak oil'.<br /><br />Thorium however is plentiful - wherever there is granite there is Thorium - even here in Wales. Thorium reactors can burn nuclear waste and can even burn their own waste. Thorium reactors have the potential to produce electricity cheaper than any other method currently in existance.<br /><br />We will build Wylfa B by 2020. We'll be lucky if we can afford to operate it by 2050.<br /><br />Meanwhile the BRIC countries will have Thorium reactors on-line and be lit up like Christmas trees.<br /><br />Like the anon above I reckon Thorium is the way at least until we stabilise fusion.An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-29298838741618623982011-03-22T18:32:22.139+00:002011-03-22T18:32:22.139+00:00The reality is that the U.S Dollar is king, and we...The reality is that the U.S Dollar is king, and we are pawns in a struggle, between France. EDF, and the Americans, whoever, builds Wylfa B, will have a large stake in the Energy Business, it won't affect us as a major employer, all they are interested in is building, getting it operational and making big money, the local employment issue is not factored in as part of the investment, power stations are similar to a bank that makes money for the next 100 years. The issue of safety is a bind to them, it costs them money, and the more we moan, the harder the Goverment will come down on us, what this Westminster Government wants, they get. If you decide to protest against Wylfa B, then the Government will do everything in it's power to win, the people of Anglesey don't bother this Government, all they are interested in, is electricity and profit and money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-83606678278895200192011-03-22T17:57:55.069+00:002011-03-22T17:57:55.069+00:00www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12813128
"Wylfa,...www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12813128<br /><br />"Wylfa, Anglesey, nuclear firm 'takes stock' after Japan"<br /><br />"investors are nervous" - I'd say this is a consequence of putting what to my mind should be, for various reasons, (health and safety, strategic power supply, weapons grade by-products, waste disposal, unit costs of generation, etc), an industry that is run by the state, with properly seperated regulation and inspection bodies.<br /><br />If you have the time listen on BBC i-player to 'The World Today' 02.05 edition, about 8.30 & 12.00 minutes in; the articles are about the current situation in Japan re: TAPCO faking safety reports and the accompanying interview about the effect of chief executives on corporate cultures with regard to transparency and trust. (The latter part applies to IOACC too).<br /><br />www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ft04xPrometheuswriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02576137015868454301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-58949589982777349932011-03-22T17:27:55.780+00:002011-03-22T17:27:55.780+00:00Monbiot is in the business to make money. No bett...Monbiot is in the business to make money. No better way to achieve fame and fortune than generate a bit of controversy. Has he really forgotten all about Chernobyl?Photonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10137649851898638015noreply@blogger.com