Ireland: Is it time to join the nuclear family?

NEXT year Ireland will start to pay the full price for a decision made back in 1981, when the Carnsore nuclear power project was consigned to the waste bin. Instead of coughing up about €140m for annual greenhouse gas credits, Ireland could, along with the likes of France, now be enjoying a low-emission energy industry, one that does not spill out tonnes of noxious gases that threaten the very existence of future generations.

But as one expert pointed out this week, this is Ireland and we do things differently here. Instead of simply forgetting the nuclear issue, it was set in stone back in 1999 when the Government made the bizarre decision to incorporate a ban on future nuclear projects in the 1999 Generation Act.

The country is now at least opening up to the idea of a debate on nuclear power and what it has to offer as an alternative to the fossil fuels which currently provide most of our energy. The debate is slowly gathering pace, with celebrities like Eddie Hobbs lending their voices to those looking to open minds to the possibility that we might some day have a nuclear Ireland. Even the Green Minister for Energy, Eamon Ryan, earlier this year called for a debate on the possible role of nuclear energy in Ireland.

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/is-it-time-to-join-the-nuclear-family-1089477.html

But plenty of radioactive shit left behind! Produced with uranium... which is still mined by using toxic chemicals and internal combustion engines to harvest it, an increase in euranium meaning an increase in these methods of mining.

Great fucking idea.