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Originally Posted by Rasczak  As for the safety of nuclear energy - compared to its efficiency, its about as safe as you're gonna get. Doesn't the EU already have a lot of nuclear plants? |
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Originally Posted by MRiGnS I don't have to support things just because they are "European" which isn't maybe that clear because usually inner European issues aren't discussed much on this forum.
Oh and Italy already got rid of them and Germany's will be shut down until 2012 |
Italy only had a handful of reactors to begin with. Germany is chock-full of environmental peaceniks, who are on the hypocritical side to say the least: they oppose coal/oil-fired power stations, and nuclear power stations. Can't do right for doing wrong.
France generates 60% of its power from nuclear fuel. They are commissioning more nuclear plants as we speak. Whatever you want to believe, they're less a part of the global warming problem than Germany is.
The UK has about 20 nuclear power stations, I believe. We have about 30-40% of our power generated by nuclear power. Unfortunately, very little money is put into building new nuclear plants. Hence, our nuclear plants are growing old, and no new ones are being built to replace them. The now-departed Tony Blair did speak of replacement power plants, but I don't know the state of those plans now.
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Originally Posted by MRiGnS Just imagine terrorists crashing a plane into a nuclear power plant in Luxembourg. Central Europe would turn into hell. |
I thought I'd already debunked this myth?
