Nuclear in the papers

The papers today have much on Nuclear. I wouldn’t say much as I have already put my thoughts on blog here. However a few points.

Despite what the papers say the likelihood of Ireland importing Nuclear Energy at the moment is low. The area where the interconnector from Scotland comes from. Has no Nuclear and mainly gas fired stations. So it is unlikely that the electrons that we import from Britain come from Nuclear power plants. Whether or not we would be able to buy these gas generated electrons if Britains were not buying Nuclear generated elections is unclear without studies of British electricity supplies. But anyway point being our electricity from Britain is more then likely not from Nuclear.

Also what many seem to miss is that Nuclear is going to do nothing to replace the use of oil in cars and our airplanes which accounts for 40% of our energy use. As oil counts for 57.4 % of our energy usage. Using Nuclear would result in just a drop of 30% in oil imports a replacement of 17%. A point that doesn’t stop Damian Corless mentioning cars and planes 3 times in his pro-Nuclear piece in the Indo. (if anyone can find a link to his article please tell me it is called power games)

Also he states without backing up why, that reports about Uranium running out are widely distorted. People also say peak oil figures have been distorted.

When will we get good discussion on Nuclear energy?