donroxy: Jonathan must be Joking !!!


I am still comfortable with Hydro generated in Kainji Dam ........ And I no complain of being tired of shouting Up NEPA!!!

I AM OVER CONFORTABLE WITH MY GENERATOR SEF, I NEVER READY TO GO NUCLEAR. SO RUSSIA, MAKE UNA HOLD THAT UNA NU- CLEAR WHEY DON DEY CLEAR UNA SO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYi4d5lBDt4

[size=15pt]Nigeria - Radioactive Waste Management[/size]

wirinet: Google Fukushima and then review your stance on whether we should be playing with anything atomic at all

Fukushima is too faraway as the partnership is not coming from Japan. Google Chernobyl in Ukrainian state of former Soviet Union.

BEWARE OF THE 'GREEKS' AND THEIR GIFTS. Can't just help but wonder how those guys at Abj had been blackmailed into accepting this. Or better still, what have they mortgaged in accepting this deal?

d-hammer:
The Russian founder of that regions chapter of
Greenpeace , also authored a book titled
Chernobyl:Consequences of the Catastrophe... ,
which concludes that among the billions of
people worldwide who were exposed to
radioactive contamination from the disaster,
nearly a million premature cancer deaths
occurred between 1986 and 2004.

imagine its not gonna b wise of us to do dat is too early

Nentongsh: imagine its not gonna b wise of us to do dat is too early

I think it is time to reduce the Nigerian population. The nuclear plant plan might just be the right one to do that. Though I opt for a nuclear weapon for the Nigerian military to keep a watch on SA threat.

No thanks Russia we can just improve on our gas turbines, coal nd hydro plants. We can also explore wind mills nd solar sources, but nuclear plant no way. Is it Naija dat's still struggling wit effective refuse collection dat shuld now av a nuclear power plant. No thanks dat's a recipe for national disaster, or is it dat they r looking for a way to reduce awa population

one word !!! Deadly

solomon111: We should build atleast 3 of those nuclear plants and then allow the russians to control it for atleast 8 years with a commensurate transfer of "technical know-how" from the russians at the same time.
It's not as complex as it sounds.
South-africa has a nuclear power plant and they're still alive.
why can't we?

I am sorry to say this but its managed/supervised by the Whites, the same Whites that dedtroyed SA's nuclear arsenals on the eve of the Blacks taking over P0wer!

GHKWAME:

I am sorry to say this but its managed/supervised by the Whites, the same Whites that destroyed SA's nuclear arsenals on the eve of the Blacks taking over P0wer!

As long as South Africa continues to have nuclear power plants, then they still have the ability to very easily regain nuclear weapons because every plant processes plutonium as waste which can very easily be converted into weapons with little technical expertise or assistance. This is why the US was so up in arms with Iran starting nuclear power plants, not that they aren't being hypocrites. So regardless of the West disarming SA, they have only taken the developed arsenal, but they did not take the technology that could be used to develop more. Still, I doubt that the West would be happy if SA decided to develop arms under black rulers, but they'd be hard-pressed to find a justifiable excuse to invade over it. There's no terrorism in SA, there's no political interest for the West to oppose it outside of NATO treaties which SA ignored when they developed arms in the first place. Then again, noone seemed to care until the old government gave power to the ANC.

That said, nuclear energy is very efficient. It creates a lot of energy for a smaller required input. It just needs a very high level of maintenance and technical know-how. Naija currently has no experience with the materials and the technical workings to use it, so it's fine to have Russian advisers overseeing the project so long as they are simultaneously training Nigerians to properly manage it in the future and are not hampering Nigeria's ability to fully control it's uses. That means that they do not sabotage the project for fear of Nigeria using the waste products for a nuclear arsenal in the future. Bottom line, once a nation has the capacity to maintain nuclear energy, they simultaneously become a potential nuclear-armed power. All the Nigerian government will then have to do is create warheads from the plutonium waste, which is easier than maintaining the energy plant. And, of course, explain to the UN why they had to do so in order to stave off an invasion by outside forces...

Could this put a target on our backs? For one thing, who knows how long Western powers will wait before deciding that Nigerian oil needs taking by force? We've never been a particular target because we have very little control over our oil revenue as it is. Nuclear energy will lighten the lead that Nigeria needs from oil for energy generation, but petroleum will still be an issue until Nigeria has refineries. With refineries online, Nigeria will not only be able to produce value-added petrol products for itself, it can also better control the prices that they can demand for those products, which may not make the West happy and with a potential nuclear arsenal (and Boko Haram) there may be a story to be told for a potential armed conflict. I don't think there is any current over-arching public support for war in any Western nation now, but in 10 years...

These are all concerns outside of the obvious "accident" or nuclear meltdown at the plant itself. Fukushima, was not the fault of the Japanese, but rather a natural disaster which is unlikely to affect Nigeria since Naija does not sit on a fault-line. The Japanese technical skill and efficient design parameters would likely have kept the station running without issue indefinitely barring an uncontrollable disaster. Even now, they will likely be re-outfitting existing plants to withstand higher stresses placed under disaster conditions. But we are not purchasing the capacity from the Japanese, we are purchasing from the Russians and with it, the technology that caused Chernobyl. That disaster was entirely user-error from the outset. Lack of planning for routine stress tests, coupled with inherent flaws in design led to that issue. We can only hope that they have learned from it and improved, but with Russians,... who knows. They value overall output over caution and they're not usually quite as efficient as Japan even without that mindset.

Then you have to go back to waste. Barring the development of a vast nuclear arsenal, there's literally nothing that can be done with plutonium except to store it. It cannot be broken down or destroyed, it can't be buried underground unless you want radioactive drinking water, it degrades on the time-scale of millennia. The only feasible waste disposal means that anyone has devised is to take it out to space and try to shoot it into the sun and let it burn up there, and the calculations necessary to do that without missing are so precise that it's currently impossible to guarantee with any certainty. We could shoot and miss only for it to hit us when the earth gets to the other side possibly. So any nuclear waste would have to be stored and that requires trust that the government will actually do this properly and maintain the waste in such a manner that it would not end up being found buried next to a small village or under a city lot ten years after hundreds of people mysteriously contracted and died of cancer. Trust and competence is the biggest issue, and as long as Naija continues to elect the type of leaders that it does (granted the parties only nominate puppets and figureheads rather than the most intelligent Nigerians, so this is their fault) then...

Unserious government