{"id":8307,"date":"2018-11-09T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2018-11-09T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:28:53","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8307","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – Is nuclear dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Is nuclear dead? Yes is the short answer.\u00a0 The longer answer is slightly more nuanced.\u00a0 This week Toshiba abandoned plans for a new nuclear power plant at Moorside near Sellafield.\u00a0 Its not really a surprise.\u00a0 The project has looked half baked from the start.\u00a0 Toshiba took over Westinghouse’s nuclear business in the US and tried to build 4 Westinghouse AP1000’s there.\u00a0 This led to near bankruptcy and Toshiba having to sell its chip business.\u00a0 The idea was to build several of these units at Moorside opening in 6 years time.\u00a0 Now this project has collapsed.\u00a0 The problem is multifaceted for nuclear.\u00a0 No one has found a way to build without some kind of subsidy.\u00a0 The costs keep rising.\u00a0 And renewables are now not just cheaper but an order of magnitude cheaper (and getting cheaper as nuclear is doing the opposite).\u00a0 Our book<\/a> was very much criticized by a leading nuclear proponent, but I would point out that since then no new nuclear has been built in the UK or the US and all the schemes are collapsing.\u00a0 Renewables and energy storage are not.\u00a0 I accept that we cannot simply replace our current lifestyle and run it on renewables.\u00a0 We need to double our electricity output to electrify the economy and will be difficult to do by renewables only.\u00a0 However is nuclear dead?\u00a0 Yes its too expensive dangerous and no on knows what to do with the waste.\u00a0 The future belongs to wind, solar and energy storage along with hopefully tidal power in the longer term.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is nuclear dead? Yes is the short answer.\u00a0 The longer answer is slightly more nuanced.\u00a0 This week Toshiba abandoned plans for a new nuclear power plant at Moorside near Sellafield.\u00a0 Its not really a surprise.\u00a0 The project has looked half … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,17,237,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-renewable-heat","category-renewables"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - Is nuclear dead? - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8307\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8307\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8307\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - Is nuclear dead? 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