Developments at Bradwell

[DavidofMersea]

How the hell can there be "not enough water in the Blackwater"????

I don't know who Bernard Jenkins is but is he too stupid to realise that the Blackwater is open to the North Sea and the North Sea is open to the worlds' oceans!

I was embarassed for poor Bernard in the interview he gave on Bradwell B, he or his researchers were clearly misinformed, although I wouldn't dare suggest the source of the misinformation. The only accurate part was his statement that the B station would require around 5 times more cooling water than the now decommissioned one. I said so myself in an earlier post on this thread. Bernard neglected to say that the water would be returned to the estuary at the same rate, but about 4 to 5 degrees C warmer. As with the old station, it will be impossible to discern any temperature increase once 50m away from the discharge point. I fail to see how that threatens the ecology of the Blackwater.

Erbas ... Bernard Jenkins is the local MP for Mersea.

I suspect that Bernard Jenkins got his misinformation from BANNG. I know he had a meeting with them, and he must be a bit naive if he does not realise that so often protest groups make up facts to fit their campaign. It is very unprofessional to get facts like this wrong

 

[jimi]

I'm afraid, GOG, that a commercial thorium fuelled reactor would be another decade or two away as no such animal has yet been commissioned in the world, even at prototype scale. There is no doubt that the physics would work but there are still many real world engineering problems to solve, licensind hurdles to leap and financial viability to be demonstrated before anyone, private or public, will stump up the money for this concept.

I was embarassed for poor Bernard in the interview he gave on Bradwell B, he or his researchers were clearly misinformed, although I wouldn't dare suggest the source of the misinformation. The only accurate part was his statement that the B station would require around 5 times more cooling water than the now decommissioned one. I said so myself in an earlier post on this thread. Bernard neglected to say that the water would be returned to the estuary at the same rate, but about 4 to 5 degrees C warmer. As with the old station, it will be impossible to discern any temperature increase once 50m away from the discharge point. I fail to see how that threatens the ecology of the Blackwater.

This question of the warm patch has provided endless interest from the fishing community. After the prolonged cold winter of 1963, there were some who believed that the survival of the oysters off the barrier wall while others died in droves, was essential to keeping all the local oyster fisheries going. Nearly 40 years later when I shut the plant down in 2002, I was slated for destroying the best sea bass nursery in the UK. Whatever you do, you can be sure someone thinks you're wrong!

some more details here

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmenergy/memo/nps/m4102.htm

 

[DavidofMersea]

some more details here

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmenergy/memo/nps/m4102.htm

It is not information, it is BANNG propaganda and is not to be relied on. I see they are saying there is not enough water in the Blackwater for cooling, so where did they get that from? or did they make it up? BANNG also say that the water in the Blackwater is polluted, but several BANNG Committee members sail on it and Professor Blowers swims in it, !!! I would rather rely on the info from Peter Wright, he should know what he is talking about, whereas Professor Blowers of BANNG was a geography lecturer, and a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn

 

[jimi]

Note that is from BANNG, and their info is not to be relied on. I see they are saying there is not enough water in the Blackwater for cooling, so where did they get that from? or did they make it up? BANNG also say that the water in the Blackwater is polluted, But Professor Blowers swims in it !!! I would rather rely on the info from Peter Wright, he should know what he is talking about, whereas Professor Blowers of BANNG was a geography lecturer, and a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn

I have no interest in the matter either way, but I do not find the basis of your argument logically compelling.


PS I am, and have been for a long time, a supporter of nuclear energy. However we need to exercise that choice intelligently.