You should never say stuff like this

Today (in the UK) it's as cold and damp as the last week in October

32Ghz is back on line

It's a bad as saying the North Polar Ice Cap is looking peachy. You can guarantee the next day great chunks of it will have disappeared

....

The electricity company EDF has temporarily shut down two of its nuclear power stations, Heysham 1 and Hartlepool.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28738074

(Not to mention Hunterston and Dungeness have reactors off-line/tripped




Heysham 1 is the drab old thing, like Hartlepool. hiding behind Heysham 2

http://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/daily-statuses



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annualized_failure_rate

"AFR will increase towards and beyond the end of the service life of a device or component."

You don't say

With Heysham 1 and Hartlepool shut down and half of Hunterston B, where I was last week, these 2 1/2 UK Nuclear Power Stations are consuming 84MW of power from the UK National Grid to keep themselves cool so they don't become like Fukushima Daiichi

See http://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/daily-statuses only Wylfa is not on this list as it is being run by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority http://magnox.nuclearsite.co.uk/remit yep the NDA !

This is OK as it has happened in Summer but as the LCPD takes it's toll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Combustion_Plant_Directive (Add one half of Ferrybridge to this list as it shut down in March this Year)

The UK is likely to have a shortfall in generating capability during this coming Winter (i.e. the lights will go out)

Now if we don't have enough supply and we had to shut down Nuclear Power Stations like the 2 long past their sell by date stations above have had to be... in the middle of Winter on a cold still night (No Solar No Wind Turbines turning) .....Let's just hope they have sufficient on-site generating capability to keep cool while the rest of us just sit in the dark


Think I'm scaremongering?

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/7...ssessment-report-2013.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19842401

This is what I have been trying to point out all along.

It's been clear for the last 7 years that we would get to this point

Can we build new Coal or Gas power stations in the UK ... No (see first post in this thread)

Are Nuclear Power Stations now perceived to be greener than a cucumber and guacamole dip served on a bed of freshly mown grass? .... insanely it would appear ....Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How has this happened?

Ask your anti-CO2 Warmist who has infiltrated every level of the political system and media such that it's not politically correct to own another opinion on this Island of ours how this has happened.


I hold them entirely [ir]responsible

We have a Government Department called The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Keeping Crunching while I still can
Dave

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408160023

"unprecedented distress"

http://www.smh.com.au/national/a-climate-of-despair-20140813-102r1w.html

Have they any idea of the damage they have done with their "The End is Nigh" prognostications

Any idea at all ?