Garden Route or Nuclear Route?
The powers that be have earmarked on sites around the country to build large pressurised water reactors twice the size of Koeberg.
Oesterbaai, in the Eastern Cape, is one of the preferred sites. But building large nuclear power stations carries with it very large price tags and even larger environmental problems.
The burning question is: are the citizens fully aware of the impact these nuclear reactors will have on their area?
To conform with the law, Eskom is obliged to convene environmental impact assessment meetings to inform citizens about these power stations and to listen to their grievances. But are the residents getting all the facts?
Please join me in this threaded discussion on the future of the Garden Route. You never know, maybe we will find a solution for this problem.
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Wind Mill Power
I will propose Wind Mill power is the solution, I have been visiting Cape St Francis for over 10 years now, and believe me they have no shortage of wind. PE 70km from there is then known as the windy city. You are also not able to run out of wind, but Uranium maybe. Also storing the waste for 240 000 years, to protect he environment, nobody has tested if the storage methods actually lasts as long as nobody has been alive that long or ever had to store waste for so long. Go the windy ROUTE!
Nuclear Plants and Wind Power
Whichever way you look at it, my opinion from an aesthetic point of view is that a big white windmill will always look far better than a grey and fenced-in nuclear plant.
But Janet is absolutely correct with regards to waste. Besides the fact that nuclear plants hold the potential of a short term catastrophe there seems to be no workable solution for nuclear waste at this point.
Pete