maintaining them is a bitch and expensive... and also requires fossil fuels

they are noisy and just generally pretty lame yo

Significantly less than say, a coal plant

> The UK has 15 operational nuclear reactors at seven plants

Meaning we're less dependant on imports

Which from a strategic POV is very good

@Crafty are they power plants or breeder reactors though?

Foriegn companies and countries will have less influence / control over us

By holding their coal / oil / gas exports hostage

Or, ramping up the price

Coastal wind turbines are not an unreasonable idea in the UK, especially now their unsubsidised cost is now competitive

in terms of polutants wind is pretty good, solar is shit on both fronts, with just co2 emissions a full cycle solar pannel causes more than any fossil fuel except coal, and including non greenhouse gas polutants solar is just the worst

climate change is bullshit really

Don't care @UnScottable

National security.

admittedly don't know @killerqwerty, but it seems UK's nuclear energy supply peaked in the '90s

i think nuclear would be a much danker option

most uranium is mined in canada

Except the French own most if not all of our reactors

British nuclear is cucked out to foreigners

ewww Frogs

whyd you give em to the french. wtf

Exactly @Dubdogelmo

just go take em back

*Hon hon hon*

be like hey you

give me my reactor back biiiitch

so for the us nuclear is 100% safe nationaly since canada is basicaly a part of the usa

@ShardS there are also massive uranium deposits in Australia

well the big energy producer for the US is natural gas now

Interesting how all of the Uranium is in former British dominions

yeah, nuclear gets gutted every time a dem/labour government is in place

the real reason us/uk nuclear is about 20 years behind france and japan.

i dnt understand why that is... is it they are just afraid of a malfunction?

Pretty much yeah

No one wants that

Nuclear in Japan is dead @ShardS

its not really that hard to shut them down

All the reactors have been shutdown

even though its less likely, and less dangerous than most other types of malfunction

ALL.