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    Fianna Fáil TD soll dem Dáil ein neues Gesetz zur Aufhebung des Atomverbots vorstellen

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    1. snazzydesign on

      We can’t even build a children’s hospital- can you imagine the apocalypse of building something nuclear? ☢️

    2. qwerty_1965 on

      Haha! I look forward to seeing a crusty convoy heading to Carnsore Point for a restaging of the 1979 anti nuclear protest.

      TIL from Wikipedia

      „The British and Irish Communist Organisation, who believed nuclear power was necessary to achieve socialism in Ireland, picketed the first concert“

    3. SeanB2003 on

      Might as well, it’s not the thing stopping nuclear here anyway. That’s economics and engineering.

    4. phatteeth on

      I’m all on for nuclear power, but not a chance would I want to see the Irish government with there civic servants build one, let alone have their buddies run it. We are absolutely shite at building infrastructure and running any form of state body. We have one of the highest GDP but the return we get from all those taxes is so fucking bad it’s beyond a joke.

    6. SeriesDowntown5947 on

      Goid idea. By all accounts mini nuclear plants are been widely implemented in sweden etc. They could be ideal to power data centers which need consistency in power.

    8. Nuffsaid98 on

      Wind farms off the west coast to capitalise on a resource we have in abundance coupled with importing power from overseas nuclear power plants in places like France would make more sense to me.

      Solar on every roof.

      We are too small a country to need to run our own nuclear power plant.

      Also, good luck getting any NIMBY to allow one to be built near them.

    9. snazzydesign on

      I’ve a feeling they’d employ Homer Simpson as Nuclear Safety Officer ☢️

    10. AAALOKEN on

      Good. It’s about time a couple mini reactors like in Canada would do wonders

    11. BadgerBitter5613 on

      The TD should clarify if he would be happy for it to be built un his constituency 

    12. killianm97 on

      There is such an intense lobbying push for nuclear over the past few years, when the economi reality is that renewables are way cheaper and easier.

      The only concern with exclusive focus on wind and solar is that it’s not always sunny and windy, but there are pre-existing solutions for this – including more interconnectors between countries to create an integrated European energy grid, plus hydropower and pumped storage hydroelectricity.

    13. skipdeedy on

      Needs to happen. Not sure it’ll ever be economically viable here on this island but with the new modular tokamak reactors who knows. 

    14. phatteeth on

      There’s just zero accountability in Ireland, that’s the worry if they did go ahead with it. I can just imagine the Nuclear power plant leaks toxic waste into the local river, the PAC or the O committee invites the CEO for questions but he/she declines and quits and that’s them washing their hands of any responsibility.

    15. SoftDrinkReddit on

      Look the problem Is not should we have nuclear power in Ireland

      The problem is do you trust the clowns in our government at running nuclear power and the answer is fuck no

    16. SeriouslySuspect on

      I’d have been delighted to see this 20 years ago but now I think there’s no point. Wind and solar have gotten so cheap and efficient that I think we’ve passed this by.

    18. Far_Advertising1005 on

      The biggest threat to nuclear power here is a slightly windy day so this is a good isea

    21. wunderbar77 on

      Where is the lad that’s always lambasting nuclear, he’ll get a laugh out of this

    22. pauldavis1234 on

      Irish nuclear reactor.

      This has to be a joke.

      We can even tell when busses are due on a bus stop display.

    23. ferocious_bandana on

      Where is a reactor sited?

      Where does the fuel come from?

      Where is the waste stored?

      It won’t ever happen

    24. Munky_13 on

      My god, they’d do anything other than build renewables which are cheaper and will be built quicker than this. We don’t need this, numpties

    26. Accomplished-Ad-6639 on

      So many Irish people won’t accept having wind turbines or even solar panels near them, so there is no chance anything nuclear will ever be built.

    28. Imperial_Tiramisu on

      Apparently, it takes 10 nuclear reactors (no idea what size) to power all of Ireland. We could be completely enegery independent and have a scalable source of energy that doesn’t depend on the weather (wind) and solar (4 hours of sun in Irish winter).

    31. Gold-Vacation-169 on

      So even if we started this plan tomorrow, between site location, objections, court battles, EU court battles and building it’ll be 15 plus years.

      We’re better off putting money and time into other options

    32. VeraStrange on

      Reactors cost a fortune at the best of times. BAM are going to make more money than they ever imagined. And the anti-nuclear lobby can rejoice in the knowledge that there won’t be a completed nuclear reactor in Ireland for decades.

    33. _Oisin on

      We can’t organise a bike stand right. There is zero hope of a nuclear project going well. We are baffled by the complexities of a children’s hospital never mind nuclear power.

    34. leo2734 on

      Won’t happen , even if the government wanted to , people wouldnt and that would be the end of it.

    35. the-spin-master on

      Why did this make me think of a meltdown scenario at Ireland’s first reactor and Minister for Nuclear Energy Helen McEntee standing outside the exclusion zone telling the public – „lessons will be learned.“ 

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