Comment: No Nuke Plants, they are too expensive, the taxpayers for for them, no one will insure Nuke Plants, Tell Virginia, we do not want nuke power or uranium mining!!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Prince Albert Daily Herald
Editor,
The Herald:
The proposed nuclear reactor is going to cost Bruce Power a lot of money. Guess again. The private sector does not invest in nuclear power - for good reason: the public will be on the hook for many generations for the biggest part of the costs.
Nuclear power plants are usually over budget and start up behind schedule. If power is needed in the meantime, we will have to purchase elsewhere. It would be 10 years or likely more before a nuclear plant starts producing electricity.
Construction of power grids to export to possibly Alberta and the U.S. will be a large expense - estimated at $1 billion, again largely at public expense.
Power backup for both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and refurbishing is necessary. Note that eight nuclear power plants were once shut down for a whole decade in Ontario. The UDP report says that nuclear is compatible with 'clean' coal. It better be, as coal will be required when the huge, equally highly centralized nuclear system goes down. Note that there is not an operational clean coal plant on the planet. $1.4 billion plus of our money is being spent on an experimental project to produce only 100 MW of clean coal power. What if it does not work or is too costly to expand? Where does the backup power come from? Old dirty coal that will cost us in carbon charges?
Refurbishing of nuclear power plants is again usually over budget and behind schedule, often needing to be done earlier than predicted.
Decommissioning costs are huge and nuclear companies set aside only modest funds for this. Will Bruce Power even be in business at that stage? It is a complex process.
The public will be burdened with the costs of storing radioactive waste somewhere for hundreds of thousands of years. The $10-billion Yucca Mountain site in the U.S. was abandoned before being used.
There seems to be a lot of expensive experimenting going on for a province of one million people. Are we the sparsely populated area that is being coerced into being the guinea pigs - just in case something goes wrong?
Why would we support even more socialism for the rich? Why not a proven, safe energy system that private capital will invest in, will provide many jobs and financial benefits to many communities, rural municipalities, farmers, ranchers and First Nations?
Renewable energies, energy conservation and efficiencies and cogeneration combined with some hydro from Manitoba as needed seems to be a more attractive choice.
Mike Bray Indian Head
http://www.paherald.sk.ca/index.cfm?sid=263435&sc=643
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