Saturday, 12 December 2009

New nuclear strategy???

Submarines and icebreakers have for many years used nuclear power. Small reactors capable of providing electricity and heat.

While we are looking at building lots of wind farms, why not nuclear reactor farms (NRF)?

The advantage of an NRF is that is can be located anywhere, not just where the wind blows. This is important because a lot of the investment in wind is on the network of wires needed to distribute the power into the national grid, which historically is designed to carry power from a few large stations, not small ones off-shore or located in remote areas.

But NRFs could be placed anywhere at strategic locations around the existing grid to add quick and easy nuclear power to our portfoliio. Lots of companies are in the business - but sadly, yet again, none are UK based - have we no more knowhow????

Here's a list of makers:

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