Nuclear Power

As an engineer, I have visited several nuclear power stations, lots of chemical plants and a couple of oil refineries.

As Flixborough and Buncefield have shown, tremendous damage can be done even when there is no nuclear component.

I believe that if we design to the best standards, then all can be made safe. But are we educating enough good engineers to ensure that?

In the mean time, a better solution is to cut our electricity use, by using it more intelligently and efficiently. This would actually allow electricity companies to make sure that if they go nuclear, they go very-safe nuclear. Strangely by not building power stations, this greatly improves the profitability of electricity companies, so it’s in their interest too to wait.