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By: Smokewriting: Another Fine Edition of Me

Smokewriting: Another Fine Edition of Me — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:26:37 +0000

[...] If the industry manages to buck its longest trend, and produce technology that attains the performance targets set for it, then the risks of instability derive from the amount of plutonium that will be made available. Leaving aside the issue, dear to our hearts here at SW, of the inherent injustices of nuclear waste production, the likely proliferation of nuclear weapons and the possibility of weapons material being readily available to anyone interested in a bit of asymmetrical advantage would only increase already recognised dangers. What the ORG report asks us, despite the language of cost-benefit analysis that frames it, is to consider questions that cannot be reduced to risk calculations: is a world powered by a massively expanded programme of breeder reactors the sort of world we would wish to live in? Related posts: [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:37:13 +0000

Bugger – forgot to close those italics. That’s better.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:36:17 +0000

That little phrase â€˜it is right thatâ€¦â€™ has crept into the official lexicon of NuLab cliche recently,

It’s liturgical, quite literally. (At least, it was when I was a regular church-goer, just a couple of decades ago.)

Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

Congregation: It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

Celebrant: It is not only right, it is our duty and our joy, at all times and in all places, to give You thanks and praise, merciful God, loving Father [and so on and so forth].

I remember our Rector didn’t like appearing to correct the congregation week after week, so he mumbled the first few words of the last bit – “wrrwrr right, it is our duty and our joy” usw.

So there you have it – it is wrrwrr right, our duty and our joy to consider how nuclear power can help to underpin the security of our energy supply. Odd that their language should take this turn just when Blair’s actually going.

By: Chicken Yoghurt » Atomkraft #1

Chicken Yoghurt » Atomkraft #1 — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:03:49 +0000

[...] Probably more to come from me on the newly announced energy strategy, particularly as there are suggestions (coming via that excellent chap, Rochenko) that they might like to stick a nuclear power station near Brighton. [...]