Torness down due to green 'seaweed'

[Gib Bogle]

Apparently jellyfish are multiplying throughout the oceans. If you want to be scared (and fascinated), read this:

[dennis]

Its a society issue, the Japanese don't like to make decisions and pass it up the chain. The trouble is the people up the chain do the same and the ones near the top don't always know what's going on. In the UK someone like me would have said bugger this and shifted the generators in as soon as it was clear the on site stuff was dead. Then there would have been no danger at all.

[John Stumbles]

I didn't know they did a nuclear tariff! I'm with EDF and want to support nukes. Not that I'm as rabidly anti-wind etc as many here, more of a diversity fan a la MacKay, but there's so much anti-nuke panic around I think the other side needs a bit of balance weight.

Cheaper is good too :-)

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Well the stupid buggers certainly paid the price.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

It's called Blue.

[Dave Liquorice]

They sort of do under the "Blue" marketing puff and the dancing turd. But when you look in the small print (if you can find it) to discover the balance for a particular tariff, even then I'm not sure if the balance is available per tariff or just overall for EDF.

[newshound]

OK, but

1) it is very hard and very expensive

2) you have big neutron fluxes. So the structural materials become activated and also, over time, lose their mechanical properties and are likely to need replacing regularly. So it isn't *quite* as clean as often made out.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Only because we haven't developed it much yet.

[newshound]

Not to mention the Germans, and to some extent the rest of us.

I think the Japanese also believe more in the infallibility of authority, something we are not known for in the UK even if we don't go to the Australian extreme.

Plus, our Windscale accident in 1957 was something of a wake-up call which resulted in the formation of an expert regulator, with teeth.

Knowing a little about additions to the UK "emergency response" capability over the past few years, I can confirm that there is quite a lot of useful stuff stockpiled and ready to ship to any site which had such an incident. There are also arrangements whereby the team of technical specialists which gets set up automatically to advise on any severe accident can, quite literally, call in the Army (or other armed services) to provide logistical support.

[newshound]

We have been trying to develope it since the 1950's. We went from the first fission reactor to generating useful electricity in 14 years. And that was with a world war in the way.

[The Natural Philosopher]

not too hard and the expense depends on whether or not the reactor you use is also making money making power.

Thers some interesting stiff being looked at.

That much can be true yes.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

I think your own country blowing up is a lot worse.

We're certainly not short of Health and Softies around here.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Some things are easier than others.

[Tim Watts]

On Sunday 24 November 2013 17:16 newshound wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I'd wondered that...

If you could get H(1) and H(2) [deuterium] fusion going, that's a lot cleaner, the result being He(3) and a gamma photon.

Now of course, whether the gamma photon will do anything interesting when it whacks into the lining, like cause a bit of fission...

[Dave Liquorice]

become

I'd say the world war hastened the development of fission, to provide materials for the bomb.