almost a week since the earthquake in Japan and subsequent tsunami caused one of the greatest tragedies of recent years. The dead in the thousands and growing daily, the material damage is enormous and there are fears a cataclysm that will affect the entire global economy. But to complicate things and add more drama to this natural disaster, several nuclear power plants in that country have been severely damaged , and radioactivity levels have increased exponentially outside what has made the government forced to evacuate the population within a radius of 20 km around the power plant in Fukushima. And it appears that the worst has not yet arrived. Faced with this disaster
not yet know how will that proves beyond doubt that nuclear power is neither clean nor safe, we have begun to listen to the proponents of this type of energy trying to convince us how it was an isolated incident that no one expected an earthquake of this magnitude and I've even heard some that they say that this accident reinforces his thesis about the safety of these facilities, since neither a natural disaster of this magnitude has shot down the structure of the plant.
But apart from these statements, which in my view are as absurd as arguing whether the sulfuric acid poured over skin burning or not burning, so I keep calling the attention is still trying to convince us that nuclear energy is cheap, it is necessary above all that we are opposed to it are a few demagogues because while we oppose the nuclear facility in our country, we buy electricity to France from these plants. All these claims are quite simply a lie.
nuclear energy is cheap
Building a new nuclear plant involves an investment of 6000 million euros as it takes more than 20 years to amortize. Moreover the cost of waste management will cost to Spain more than 13,000 million euros in the future. This is partly because even the supporters of this energy does not want a pool of waste in our country, so we paid France 22 million euros annually for their management. Just for the central residues of Vandellos Spain France pays 65,000 euros a day .
But the most funny thing is that the waste was not left France, but simply have them for a while and then we return them . The situation is so bizarre, it has even been raised waste exchange between the English and French central . If it is dangerous to imagine that waste almancenar how dangerous it is to walk by moving from one place to another and then make the return trip. Therefore cost more to add to the price of nuclear Kw, not just pay for the storage but also for transport. And when dealing with this highly dangerous material transportation is much more expensive.
In a report published in the United States by Craig A. Severance , where he studied from a purely economic point of view the costs and benefits of installing a new nuclear plant results indicated that not only was cheaper but three times expensive than that currently produced.
nuclear but I do not want to buy electricity from its central France
This is one of the most widespread opinions and more repeat supporters of nuclear energy in Spain. And as we see now is strictly false. It is true that until recently I thought so, but I only have a few minutes of searching sufficient documentation to verify that this statement was not only false but the opposite is true.
And I have not asked for this one page of environmentalists and hairy, but the official statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade , namely the English Electricity Network reports.
Table 1: Balance of trade in energy (taken from Progress Report REE 2010). Click to enlarge
According to these reports, as you can see in the above table, the English energy balance is clearly exporting GW 8490, and not only France but we owe our energy balance 1.387GW them is in our favor.
nuclear energy is safe and clean
These statements are a new lie, I do not think it takes to speak up after what is now happening. And I do not serve the claim that in this case it was extraordinary circumstances. It is also rare extraordianario and extremandamente you win the lottery primitive, but someone will get it. It was virtually impossible to break a settling pond of toxic material, but it happened in Aznalcoyar . And it was virtually impossible to produce an earthquake of magnitude 9, but it happened.
As for the supposed cleaning should be remembered that the waste problem is far from resolved. Until recent years the barrels of waste were pulling off our coasts and still remain 140,000 tonnes of this waste extremely dangerous in the pit against Galicia Atlantic. Currently
waste is being stored in pools as a temporary solution until you find a definitive solution, but this solution does not appear even though the EU, for example, is spending almost 5 times more money in your bar program VII Research Framework development projects that attempt to solve this problem that renewable energy development.
And finally, I would like to reflect on those who accuse us of demagoguery to which we oppose the use of nuclear power for energy production. Is there anything more demagogic support for nuclear energy and oppose installation of a waste bin if you draw close to home?
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