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From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, yesterday, the above and:
One of nuclear energy’s biggest selling points is its claims of reliability. “Nuclear energy is the only large-scale power source that can be tapped in even the most extreme weather conditions, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” boasts the American energy company Constellation. “Nuclear power plants are very reliable, and can run for many months without interruption, providing large amounts of clean electricity, regardless of the time of day, the weather, or the season,” says the World Nuclear Association. At a public meeting in June, Keith Ammon, a pro-nuclear Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, echoed these claims: “Nuclear doesn’t care about the weather,” he said. “It just runs.”
Over the next few months, several countries in Europe had to shut down nuclear plants because of hot weather and drought—proving that nuclear power does, indeed, care about the weather. Coming at a time when demand for electricity was high, these countries were faced with an imminent failure of the electricity grid. Citizens and businesses in Hungary and Romania had to reduce their consumption. Ironically, it was solar power—often critiqued by nuclear boosters as unreliable—that provided additional electricity and staved off shortages in some countries. A further irony is that these heat waves are more likely and more severe because of climate change, which is often advanced as the reason to expand nuclear power in the first place.
In June as the heatwave and drought began to spread across Europe, Shanks was still repeating:
Has Energy minister Michael Shanks updated his support for nuclear energy in the wake of the major nuclear shutdowns across Europe and beyond due to heatwaves and droughts?
By early July, he was still saying:
As Europe burned throughout July and August and nuclear shutdown, he must have been on holiday.
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Mr Shanks has little knowledge of the Nuclear Industry ( other than the Press releases from the Nuclear lobby which he is required to read when wheeled in front of a camera ) and less shame about lying through his teeth about his ignorance of his remit .
He is a prime Labour contender for the House of Horrors when he is ‘found out’ by his constituents in the next election .
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Would add to this that there is a 47% increase in blood cancer. The NHS say they don’t know the cause.
But the American Health Authority, where there has been a similar proportional rise, say categorically that the cause is exposure to radioactivity by either living near a nuclear power station or near a nuclear dump.
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‘SNP’s nuclear stance costing Scotland jobs’ – says Mr Shanks, and this stance will save future generations in Scotland the cost and damage of a toxic nuclear legacy.
Labour’s stance against zonal pricing of electricity from wind farms onshore and offshore Scotland is costing Scotland jobs.
And Labour’s stance on continuing to support investment in offshore cables to take electricity from wind farms offshore Scotland to England – rather than directly onshore to incentivise use in growing industries in Scotland – will cost Scotland jobs. It will support jobs in England by securing electricity for its industries at more competitive prices than it may otherwise have been able to secure.
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He’s England’s junior energy minister, in Scotland. No thanks!
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Nuclear waste lasts 100 of years. Where does that go. Being flown around the world. Chernobyl has a cover to last 100 years. Still active after that. Nuclear plants years late and over budget. Unaffordable. Especially against renewables. Now there are solar panels that can go on balconies.
Westminster spends £13Billion a year decommissioning nuclear. Over ten
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Over ten years £130Billion decommissioning nuclear. UK Gov accounts,
Unaffordable. Nuclear dumped in Scotland illegally by Westminster. Obsolete, redundant weaponry. Scotland pays £5Billion for Defence to Westminster.
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180,000 military personnel. 10,000 based in Scotland. It should be 18,000 pro rata. Scotland pays £5Billion for Defence. UK pays £55Billion. Scotland pats £1Billion too much. No enough provided. Less value. Obsolete redundant weaponry not need.
Any country that fires nuclear. Destroys themself. No deterrent. An idle threat.
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