A very sober, quite tame and non-mud slinging comment. Well done Alan B, I liked it!
as ever, "pig-ignorant" AJ.

"BREAK-IN AT NUCLEAR SITE BAFFLES SOUTH AFRICA"

Noel is spot on. Eat ya hearts out Hasbeen and Alan B.

NOTHING LIKE A PRECEDENT: New York Times, November 15, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/world/africa/15joburg.html

JOHANNESBURG: “This much is known: Just after midnight on Nov. 8, Anton Gerber was sitting with his fiancée in the control room of South Africa’s most secretive nuclear facility, the site at which this nation’s apartheid government conceived and delivered six atomic bombs, when four gunmen burst into the room. Mr. Gerber pushed his fiancée under a desk. The attackers shot him in the chest, grabbed a computer and fled, but abandoned their booty as they came under assault by guards.

Now, one week after the assault, the most serious on a nuclear installation in recent memory, the government is largely mum about who was behind it, how they broke in or why.

Already, the attack is raising questions among advocates and analysts about the wisdom of plans by South Africa and other African states to embrace nuclear energy as a solution to chronic power shortages and the looming problems of climate change.

The assault on the Pelindaba nuclear reactor and research center, one of South Africa’s most zealously guarded properties, is a severe embarrassment to the government. The four gunmen escaped cleanly, neither caught by guards nor identified on surveillance cameras. Mr. Gerber is still recovering.

On Tuesday, officials belatedly acknowledged that the Pelindaba reactor had come under attack that same night by a second team of gunmen who were also repelled — and also escaped — after guards sounded an alarm.

The Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa...suspended six security officials after the assaults and hinted that the break-ins were inside jobs, made possible only by intimate knowledge of the elaborate defenses...."
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What do you say to that Hasbeen and Alan B.?

You Murdoch Muppets you!

Clutching at straws to support a weak cause ......

Plantagenet proffers the notion that nuclear power is unsafe. And it can be.
Then so too can electricity.

The same crude objections were raised against the generation of AC power in the US, all those years ago. DC was safe, ( and much more expensive and cumbersome to distribute).
The same war between technologies always appears to rise to the occasion.

AC current won the war in the end due to its superior outcome. And that in spite of the fact it will kill you if you mishandle it.

Dan

Concur with you again Diver Dan, AC/DC, VHS/Betamax.....yet CCCers claim 97% consensus and sttlked science... a truly bemusing claim re the false stats and contradiction of the values of science… its a funny, human-weak world!

Well AJ

The problem with nuclear generation is that's ALL it is. Generating electricity.
Not even that really, it just turns a shaft.

It's more about the problem of distribution of electricity, than it is about nuclear power generation.

All the problems of electricity have long been solved. It's always enslaved though, by it biggest fault, that of distribution.
Renewables don't solve that problem, they exacerbate it.
And THERE is it's problem.

Dan