Liberal Democrats surge in polls and send alarm bells ringing for the Conservatives

[MattFr]

Where do you store used nuclear rods?

That the problem.

Vitrification to stabilize it, then long term, secure storage. I'm pretty sure this will be a pretty small concern when we run out of power though.

[lazerman]

At this moment on, its takes thousands of years for nuclear waste to decay.

Nuclear may be the way forward, but we will reach a point where we cannot store many more nuclear waste.

There are other things such as windmill farms ect.

[MrPinkPanther]

As Lazerman has highlighted it produces radioactive waste that is radioactive for long periods of time and if released into the environment could prove catastrophic. The Liberal Democrats are not ruling out Nuclear Power for ever but at the moment it simply isn't safe enough and whilst there are "Greener" alternatives we should take them.

[MattFr]

At this moment on, its takes thousands of years for nuclear waste to decay.

Nuclear may be the way forward, but we will reach a point where we cannot store many more nuclear waste.

There are other things such as windmill farms ect.

Windfarms, brilliant. Good luck powering the nation on them.

As Lazerman has highlighted it produces radioactive waste that is radioactive for long periods of time and if released into the environment could prove catastrophic. The Liberal Democrats are not ruling out Nuclear Power for ever but at the moment it simply isn't safe enough and whilst there are "Greener" alternatives we should take them.

This is why voting Lib Dem is dangerous. Nuclear Power stations need to be build now, not in the future.

[Hitman]

Doesn't the UK also have power plants that turn nuclear waste into energy? One of my teachers was talking about it a while ago...

You will still end up with waste but you do with fossil fuels... eventually we won't have any electricity. Waste is better than having no electricity! Wind turbines are expensive and may not always work.

If the Lib Dems would keep Trident and nuclear energy then they would appeal to many more people. Those are big issues. I do not want to live somewhere that has no nuclear weapon to use as a deterrent... we'd be a sitting duck.

[lazerman]

We can actually,

where does it say wind power cannot power the nation

Sitting duck?

Dude, if we cancelled our nuclear war programme, and japan just deicded to attack us, we have the back up of the whole NATO countries or w.e with nuclear missiles as well as fricking USA.

Country bomb UK = world war 3.

[MattFr]

We can actually,

where does it say wind power cannot power the nation

Sitting duck?

Dude, if we cancelled our nuclear war programme, and japan just deicded to attack us, we have the back up of the whole NATO countries or w.e with nuclear missiles as well as fricking USA.

Country bomb UK = world war 3.

gas – 39.93% (0.05% in 1990)
coal – 33.08% (67.22% in 1990)
nuclear – 19.26% (18.97% in 1990)
renewables – 3.55% (0% in 1990)
hydroelectric – 1.10% (2.55% in 1990)
imports – 1.96% (3.85% in 1990)
oil – 1.12% (6.82% in 1990)

There are about 3,000 Turbines in the UK at the moment. When gas, coal, oil and imports dry up, we need a way to generate the 76% of the UK's energy demand that was serviced by fossil fuels. I can't see renewable sources meeting that target without the use of nuclear, can you?

[Hitman]

We can actually,

where does it say wind power cannot power the nation

Sitting duck?

Dude, if we cancelled our nuclear war programme, and japan just deicded to attack us, we have the back up of the whole NATO countries or w.e with nuclear missiles as well as fricking USA.

Country bomb UK = world war 3.

You'd need a LOT of wind farms, it'd cost quite a lot and would have a low ROI... it takes loads of years to get the turbine to pay for itself.

If a nuke is dropped on the UK we're all dead. The UK is small, a couple of nukes and we'd be all dead. With a nuclear deterrent the country attacking would think twice before launching an attack. It also gives us more weight in negotiations (with Iran, etc.) because we'd have the power and ability to destroy them so they'd listen.

I would love to see a nuclear (bomb) free world but it won't happen.

[MrPinkPanther]

I'd like to point out how "Scrapping Trident" does not equal "Scrapping Nuclear weapons" contrary to popular belief. The Liberal Democrats advocate a cheaper alternative to Trident whereby the UK would have less Nuclear submarines, as I've said £100,000,000,000 is a hell of a lot of money, its needed elsewhere.

As for Nuclear power I'm sorry but "There is no alternative" is not an argument. Considering a typical Nuclear Reactor will produce 20-30 Tons of radioactive material a year that remains fatal until it decays with no known way to dispose of it, I think we need to rule out Nuclear power here and now. Did you know that during the year 2000 alone enough plutonium was created to build over 34,000 Nuclear weapons?

Tomorrows YouGov poll:
Lib Dem: 33; Con: 32; Lab: 26.

[MattFr]

I'd like to point out how "Scrapping Trident" does not equal "Scrapping Nuclear weapons" contrary to popular belief. The Liberal Democrats advocate a cheaper alternative to Trident whereby the UK would have less Nuclear submarines, as I've said £100,000,000,000 is a hell of a lot of money, its needed elsewhere.

As for Nuclear power I'm sorry but "There is no alternative" is not an argument. Considering a typical Nuclear Reactor will produce 20-30 Tons of radioactive material a year that remains fatal until it decays with no known way to dispose of it, I think we need to rule out Nuclear power here and now. Did you know that during the year 2000 alone enough plutonium was created to build over 34,000 Nuclear weapons?

Tomorrows YouGov poll:
Lib Dem: 33; Con: 32; Lab: 26.

Read my above post. "There is no alternative" is a pretty good argument going off that data.