On 01/08/18 19:01, William Unruh wrote:
On 2018-08-01, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

There is nothing a fleet of dispatchable nuclear power plants cannot do
that cannot be done worse and more expensively and with higher carbon
emissions and more adverse environmental impact by adding intermittent
renewable energy.

The problem is that the manufacturers/operators of nuclear power plants have proven
themselves incompetent at safety. Fukushima (lets put the emergency
power for water pumps in the basement). Chernobile (lets run tests and
override the emergeny failsafes). And the consequences of unsafe operation are
pretty devestating. So yes, your statement is OK, but it is a bit likethe
anti-greenouse crowd.
There is nothing that a bunch of coal fired plants cannot do more cheaply than
any other source, until the consequences destroy civilisation. Unfortunately
consequences, including those of incompetence, because incompetence is a fixed
feature of the physica world, are things that need to be
taken into account in making decisions.

Oh dear.

Deaths at Chernobyl 50-70
Deaths at Three mile Island 0

Leaving aside chernobyl the other two incidents are a tribute to their
safety systems. Despite complete core meltdown the secondary containment
safety kept emissions so low that there was no public risk at all.

Danger from CO2 emissions 0
..
No reactor of the chernobyl design is running today outside Russia


You have drunk the Left Koolaid, haven't you?

More deaths resulted for inappropriate response to Fukushima than from
the incident itself.

20,000 people died on account of the tsunami. Half a dozen died when
they were evacuated inappropriately. None died or will die from the
radiation release.


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The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before
its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

Anon.