Comments on: French Thumb Nose At Nuclear Power

By: III4III

III4III — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:13:00 +0000

Japan is not at 50% of nuclear power. It was around 30% (and not on the whole territory, there are big difference between teh regions).
After Fukushima Japan uses only 10% of nuclear energy and this winter it will be close to zero.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:42:00 +0000

HAHA

By: M Andrus

M Andrus — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:40:00 +0000

Good for France! NOBODY can afford the risk of the most unlikely accidents OR the disposal problems of nuclear!

By: BlueRock

BlueRock — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:17:00 +0000

It’s just dawned on me – I was thinking about EarthTechling – not CleanTechnica. Oops. Sorry!

Now I’ll go and moan at them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:17:00 +0000

haha.

not sure what you were seeing before, or maybe it was from sometime before you were white-listed, but i did that awhile back.

Thanks for the links

By: BlueRock

BlueRock — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Testing – here’s the link I was referring to + one more:

* Does France really get 78 percent of its energy from nuclear power? Well, not really. http://energypriorities.com/entries/2007/05/france_78_nuclear.php

* Are the French running a Ponzi scheme? http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/nuclear-reality-check-chapter-2-%E2%80%93-are-the-french-running-a-ponzi-scheme/

EDIT: Ignore almost everything I said!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:26:00 +0000

Aha,.. well, I’m 99.999% sure all yours were approved, and you’ve been “white-listed” so all of yours should be coming through automatically — same with other regular, non-bot commenters. But we get a ton of spam and don’t want it taking over our comments…

but will take the general suggestion into consideration.. think about it some more and maybe change course.

Thank You

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By: BlueRock

BlueRock — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:21:00 +0000

Hey Zachary.

If we add links to comments, we get ‘Your comment has been held for moderation’. I’ve seen it a few times and I don’t think those comments were ever approved.

Cheers,

David.

By: BlueRock

BlueRock — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:05:00 +0000

The irrationality and denial is all from those who try to suggest radiation is not highly dangerous.

* “There is no firm basis for setting a “safe” level of exposure above background for stochastic effects.” EPA

* “A preponderance of scientific evidence shows that even low doses of ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are likely to pose some risk of adverse health effects….” National Academy of Sciences

P.S. I’m sure the Japanese and people from Ukraine are comforted by your internet stats.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:05:00 +0000

Thanks for the informative comment!

Ignorant question: what is ‘pre-modding links’?

By: BlueRock

BlueRock — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:02:00 +0000

> France runs almost completely on nuclear power…

That’s one of those factoids that have been repeated so many times that it’s become unchallenged ‘truth’. It’s highly debatable.

France relies heavily on electricity imports from all its neighbours – both when the weather is too hot and when it is too cold.

They also lose out when selling their electricity – Germany in a particular is happy to pay very low prices when the French are not using the inflexible GWs pumped out by their nuke fleet.

Google: ‘Does France really get 78 percent of its energy from nuclear power? Well, not really.’ (Cleantechnica: please stop pre-modding links!)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:00:00 +0000

This rational thinking about nuclear power is now becoming the dominate way of thinking.

Nuclear is just too damned dangerous.

We do not need nuclear reactors in order to have all the affordable power we need.

Time to put the “Safe, Too Cheap to Meter” myth to bed. We’ve got enough highly radioactive crap already. We need to quit making the problem greater.

By: Shecky Vegas

Shecky Vegas — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:53:00 +0000

Sacred Blue!

On the other hand, it will be interesting to see how France goes about this, considering how much they depend on Nuclear energy. It won’t be as easy as the German transition, and that’s gonna be tough enough as it.

I wonder if France thought of replacing some of those standard reactors with Thorium reactors? Transitions costs are relatively minor and it would help get rid of the built-up nuclear waste. Just a thought…