Una nuova legge per invertire il divieto nucleare sarà presentata al Dáil dal Fianna Fáil TD

Haha! I look forward to seeing a crusty convoy heading to Carnsore Point for a restaging of the 1979 anti nuclear protest.

TIL from Wikipedia

“The British and Irish Communist Organisation, who believed nuclear power was necessary to achieve socialism in Ireland, picketed the first concert”

I’m all on for nuclear power, but not a chance would I want to see the Irish government with there civic servants build one, let alone have their buddies run it. We are absolutely shite at building infrastructure and running any form of state body. We have one of the highest GDP but the return we get from all those taxes is so fucking bad it’s beyond a joke.

Goid idea. By all accounts mini nuclear plants are been widely implemented in sweden etc. They could be ideal to power data centers which need consistency in power.

Wind farms off the west coast to capitalise on a resource we have in abundance coupled with importing power from overseas nuclear power plants in places like France would make more sense to me.

Solar on every roof.

We are too small a country to need to run our own nuclear power plant.

Also, good luck getting any NIMBY to allow one to be built near them.

There is such an intense lobbying push for nuclear over the past few years, when the economic reality is that renewables are way cheaper and easier.

The only concern with exclusive focus on wind and solar is that it’s not always sunny and windy, but there are pre-existing solutions for this – including more interconnectors between countries to create an integrated European energy grid, plus hydropower and pumped storage hydroelectricity.

This is the best thing that can help improve Longford

Irish nuclear reactor.

This has to be a joke.

We can even tell when busses are due on a bus stop display.

My god, they’d do anything other than build renewables which are cheaper and will be built quicker than this. We don’t need this, numpties

The fuss about that Chernobyl one seems to have died down alright. And the UK must surely have finished decommissioning Sellafield by now. Here’s a chart from Wikipedia showing the cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_forecast_costs_clean_up_Sellafield_vs_non-Sellafield_from_2005.jpg

There is absolutely no argument that can show how nuclear power is cost efficient or will provide energy independence for the country.

Reactors cost a fortune at the best of times. BAM are going to make more money than they ever imagined. And the anti-nuclear lobby can rejoice in the knowledge that there won’t be a completed nuclear reactor in Ireland for decades.

Won’t happen , even if the government wanted to , people wouldnt and that would be the end of it.

Good, it’s about time Ireland joined the big boys. How can we maintain our neutrality without nukes?

As others have said, its the time horizon that is going to be the problem at this point.

With that taken into account though we will, or should, do _something_ with the turbines at Moneypoint and in a few years refits for SMRs to act as the thermal generator for old coal fired plants could be pretty viable. The turbines at Moneypoint itself are in fairly good nick and are, as I understand it, well above spec anyway.

if this country doesn’t want to be forever susceptible to external wars in order to have affordable energy it definitely should invest in nuclear, among other things.

Ireland’s likely best path is a mix.
Have wind as the backbone, with storage and interconnectors for flexibility. Nuclear could be a long term option if it becomes cost effective and fits the grid. Hydrogen can then act as a way to use excess energy, by converting surplus electricity into a storable fuel, instead of wasting it.

not gonna happen , the planning system wont allow it