UK to switch off lots of its Nuclear Reactors

These are the ones being shut down

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


We dont need them, wind is doing 12.69GW atm, nuke is doing 3.53GW. Coal is doing 0GW

https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/


Also overdue maintenance.

sunlight wrote:These are the ones being shut down

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


We dont need them, wind is doing 12.69GW atm, nuke is doing 3.53GW. Coal is doing 0GW

https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/


Also overdue maintenance.

They'll need to be maintained for the next 300 years or so if humans are still around to do it.
Unless we can bury the nuclear waste in a third world country....

Yes. It takes 275 thousand years for the radiation to clear from the rods, if I remember. Need to send them into space.

sunlight wrote:Yes. It takes 275 thousand years for the radiation to clear from the rods, if I remember. Need to send them into space.

We've already fly-tipped a bunch of crap into our immediate vicinity. Perhaps we could send Elon Musk up to Mars with all the world's nuclear waste? He's allegedly big on environmental issues.

Yes. SpaceX could do it. Though, take it into orbit and send it off on its merry way into deep deep space. Gone forever.

Just finished watching Chernobyl....truly horrifying stuff....brilliantly portrayed on screen.

I recently watched that as well Okocha. Truly scary. (the program, not you  )

Good idea, switch off all the reactors, and then watch as half the lights, and everything else, follows suit across the globe.

Your idea of firing the waste into space isn't as far fetched as it first seems.