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• EKK

  Discussion 3 : 02/11/2009 at 07:10 PM3

  ...The nuclear lobby is trying to jump onto the belated recognition of the greenhouse effect, global warming, energy shortages. Some even group nuclear as an alternative energy source, but it is alternative in the wrong direction. It is not a long-term supply. The power stations need uranium, and that is a finite resource. A quarter of the known deposits are in Australia. The much-hyped plutonium cycle has proved to be beyond our ingenuity and technical ability to implement. Nuclear power stations have only limited effect on reducing greenhouse gasses. Initially they would, in fact, increase them.
  
  Nuclear power stations are massive. Once the station is operational, it takes about 10 years to produce the amount of energy used in building it. Only after that time is it a net contributor of power to society. Also, those calculations do not take into account the energy cost of waste and decommissioned reactor disposal....
  ...Waste disposal issue is a long-term problem and no viable solution has been found despite the effort gone into looking.
  
  Nuclear power is not a soft energy route; it is a hard one, and should be rejected.
  (extract from GARETH CLAYTON)

• clueless

  Discussion 2 : 02/11/2009 at 06:24 PM2

  Bringing nuclear power to Thailand is like
  giving a toddler a loaded ak-47.
  There was a incident of leaked radioactive cobalt
  a few years back, were scrap metal collectors were
  directly exposed. one man had to have his arm amputated because of the radiation.
  
  Before even considering nuclear power, one should
  educate this country about the environment. Look
  at bangkok with the pollution and traffic jam. Look at the "klongs" or rivers in bangkok. Look at how this country deals with garbage.
  
  There is NO know-how about nuclear technology in this country. Everything would have to be imported.
  
  Thailand doesn't even have a nuclear research
  facility. I think the deepest understanding about
  nuclear technology and atomics is at most a X-ray
  machine in the hospitals (oh, and have i seen some
  X-ray machine setups in hospitals. I (!) had to ask for the lead apron.)
  
  Nuclear power isn't safe. There's very dangerous
  waste, that would have to be managed over many
  many years. Considering the short memory of Thai
  people (like forgetting were the ancient northern
  capital used to be "wien khum kam" and
  "rediscovering" it by accident) the problem of
  nuclear waste management is an impossible task.
  
  But hey, why not, it seems alot of influential people just want to see Thailand in the news, not
  caring if it's a positive or negative headline,
  and i'm sure a Chernobyl made in Thailand would
  stick in the headlines and history books for a
  long time.
  
  On a side note to the nuclear power lobbyists: you
  can ill afford another nuclear disaster, so play
  it safe and lobby for nuclear power in countries that a have slight chance of not f###ing it up.
  Thailand would be one of my last choices : )
  
  "mai ben rai", it leaks.

• Rjed

  Discussion 1 : 02/11/2009 at 05:06 PM1

  IT require's a paradigm shift to people's thinking on the nuclear power plant. When people hear of a nuclear plant, they always associate it to "danger". But with the current technology in this field like the 3rd generation reactors by Areva called EPR, there should be no worry. The renaissance of nuclear power plants are now taking off and it's a good decision for Thailand to start having one and not to rely on dirty coal and soaring prices of oil. Educating the public is the KEY for acceptance.