Tuesday 31 May 2011

German Children, Swiss Children, Norwegian Children...

     German Children, Swiss Children, Norwegian Children, amongst others, all have parliaments who want to safeguard their futures. Are British Children's or American Children's futures something that their governments have the right to risk? and do we have a duty to neighbours who want to have a nuclear free future not to pollute their countries?  It can be done and the countries who are the most progressive in true green renewables will surely be the countries who prosper.
     We are also told that the global temperature is rising too quickly. What part do the billions of gallons of sea water whose temperature is raised up to 25 degrees F,  by once through nuclear power plant cooling systems, play in this temperature rise and can anybody tell me if this heat is taken into account when the carbon footprint of nuclear power plants is worked out?

A typical once-through cooling system draws into each reactor unit more than a billion gallons of water a day, 500,000 gallons a minute.... from  NIRS  http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensedtokill/executivesummary.htm

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