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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Ykc2(m): 3:22pm On Dec 09, 2019
kogi state is very close to anambra enugu they should take down to kastina state or oyo state
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by planetx: 3:22pm On Dec 09, 2019
Solar energy can never supply enough electricity for Nigerias massive population, neither building new hydro power plants. It is either nuclear or keep relying on generators.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Reference(m): 3:23pm On Dec 09, 2019
Mikkyroberts4:
abeg go read about Chernobyl disaster.

Those types of reactors are no longer in operation. Those were 40's and 50's type designs which require multiple layers of cooling and few redundancies. Modern reactors don't have such issues. Moreover the problems of Fukushima related to the location (close to the ocean) and technical failures in the design of back-up power systems which were placed below sea level.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ajl: 3:25pm On Dec 09, 2019
Nigeria public officials are a joke. They do not have a clue what a nuclear power plant mean. I know the clamour for this has been going on for some time without serious environmental impact assessment, not to talk about public consultation for siting the plants. They think this is petroleum where spills can be tolerated. Studies have to be done to the point of knowing if the subsoil in the sites has microorganisms that can transform radioactive metals like uranium, etc. There are entire cities in Russia now that are completely "dead" with no human living there because of exposure to radiation due to nuclear disaster. People that cannot monitor ordinary oil companies want to monitor nuclear plants by potentially crooked Russians. This is not funny at all. We should all start what's called "Not in my backyard campaign (NIMBY).

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ajl: 3:27pm On Dec 09, 2019
Reference:


Those types of reactors are no longer in operation. Those were 40's and 50's type designs which require multiple layers of cooling and few redundancies. Modern reactors don't have such issues. Moreover the problems of Fukushima related to the location (close to the ocean) and technical failures in the design of back-up power systems which were placed below sea level.




How do you know Russians are not bringing old obsolete technologies they can't use by themselves. You all don't know what this is all about.

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Reference(m): 3:29pm On Dec 09, 2019
planetx:
Solar energy can never supply enough electricity for Nigerias massive population. It is either nuclear or keep relying on generators.

Solar can actually. A space just 900 hectres can match the total capacity of all our present plants combined if filled with PV panels. Just 25 percent of the Sahara desert can supply the power required on earth.

I am all for renewables. The problem with solar is the 14 hours of sub-optimal sunlight. Storage is prohibitively expensive so nuclear can bridge the gap at night and relax during the day.

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ShattaBandles: 3:32pm On Dec 09, 2019
pat077:
if the nuclear plant is not well maintained, it will turn to a nuclear bomb resulting in the same devastating effects.



Nuclear radiation not bomb

Nuclear radiation is deadly

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ajl: 3:32pm On Dec 09, 2019
planetx:
Solar energy can never supply enough electricity for Nigerias massive population, neither building new hydro power plants. It is either nuclear or keep relying on generators.

Mr Expert, read about this massive solar energy project in Morocco. Don't we have areas in the north close to the desert with endless daily sunlight. Sowore was even talking about this during last election campaign. We are dealing with brain-dead public officials.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/africa/ouarzazate-morocco-solar-plant/index.html

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Geesaintagape: 3:33pm On Dec 09, 2019
Naija never manage common damn talk of nuclear plan.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ShattaBandles: 3:37pm On Dec 09, 2019
anochuko01:

I can't remember specifically which Asian country had an earth quake that affected their nuclear power plant.
They're still battling to clean up the place. I've still got the BBC documentary on my system. They had to hire Toshiba to build two custom robots, including one that swims like a fish, for autonomous detection of radioactive substance.
We're not ready for that shit! Ogoni is still a mess after 30 years or thereabout.



It's Japan

Japan is most technologically sophisticated country in the world but they still find it difficult in handling nuclear disaster.

Nigeria is playing with fire

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ajl: 3:37pm On Dec 09, 2019
Russia nuclear disaster secrets. Here are few of the so many nuclear radiation children all born with defects. So many kids are born with bald heads with no hair. I had a friend from Poland who said he had a bald head from a young age. He claim it's due to exposure to pollutants.

Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by misterjosh(m): 3:40pm On Dec 09, 2019
Well that a very bad idea... but I wouldn't worry too much knowing this country, the project might never get completed. It's just the huge sum of money that will disappear that should be the main cause for alarm.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by sulasa07(m): 3:40pm On Dec 09, 2019
lexy2014:


I don't no Nigerias security threat that will warrant acquiring nuclear weapons. I was hoping u would know
Another means for our politifcians to make more billion dollars
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by LionTiger(m): 3:45pm On Dec 09, 2019
Establishing what you doesn't have the capacity to manage. why not site it in the North? Anyway, Russian Enslavement loading.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Reference(m): 3:46pm On Dec 09, 2019
ajl:


How do you know Russians are not bringing old obsolete technologies they can't use by themselves. You all don't know what this is all about.

Oga. Nuclear reactors are not television sets that you manufacture and store in the warehouse.

Plants are complex, componented trains that are design specific. They comprise thousands of purpose built and fabricated parts not off the shelf.

Look at the Dangote refinery. There is nothing there that will not have been made within the past 3 years and there are other components being designed as we speak. So how can you expect to find old parts or old technology being incorporated into new systems. It just is not possible.

Secondly, unlike other fuel based power systems, nuclear plants are not reuseable particularly the older ones due to heavy contamination. It would be a logistical nightmare and mindless cost to try to clean them up. No nation has ever attempted that.

The technology to re-energise spent fuel rods is pretty dodgy and under the eagle eye of the IAEA which watches out for the production of U-235 or plutonium for dirty bombs.

Believe me if we are sold an old plant which is impossible, the world will know immediately and make a lot of noise about it. They will not even believe we wanted it for electric power.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by ShattaBandles: 3:54pm On Dec 09, 2019
EazyMoh:

Solar has killed 100X more people compared to Nuclear while still generating a meager amount of energy at astronomical cost!

Nuclear is the safest, greenest, and cheapest energy source. It should be our priority.

A simple knowledge about risk analysis would tell you it is the best. It is like air travel despite of things go wrong, it is still the safest means of travel by far. And it would foolhardy to rule out air travel in your life just for fear if a plane crash.
Before anybody quotes me, I am a Chemical Engineer, and I work right in the middle of the energy sector, so I know what I am saying.

This Prof on the other hand is a discredited IPOB member who thrives on championing conspiracy theories. Google him up.



But why is it not built in the core Northern State where they have abundant of empty land
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Reference(m): 3:54pm On Dec 09, 2019
ajl:


Mr Expert, read about this massive solar energy project in Morocco. Don't we have areas in the north close to the desert with endless daily sunlight. Sowore was even talking about this during last election campaign. We are dealing with brain-dead public officials.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/africa/ouarzazate-morocco-solar-plant/index.html

Just the size of half a small local goverment can produce all the electricty we will need for the next 1000 years. And the good thing about solar is that it is scaleable.

Just situate a plant to produce and recycle PV panels near the site and you can add 100 megawatts every month or 15,000 panels of 300 watts capacity every day covering approximately 3 hectres of land a day.

Very easy to generate power. The problem arises when the sun sets. Big problem.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by tweakdude1: 3:58pm On Dec 09, 2019
TheMainone:

Please learn to read before commenting! Don't be too quick to reveal ignorance.. Like that bbq guy!

Guys like you are the problems of this world always pointing fingers i know one thing for sure, that once you make heaven you will tell God he made some mistakes in his creations.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by blackmarket(m): 4:05pm On Dec 09, 2019
and some day u will hear dat one dangote trailer lost control and ran into d nuclear plant. then radiation go kill all man.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by obidark: 4:08pm On Dec 09, 2019
Jrobert82:
that's correct about the nuclear accident in Japan. But, was it tsunami that caused the accident that killed some scientists in Russia as well? Or was it not the Russian scientists that were in charge? The truth is, Nigeria is not ripe to use Nuclear power. It can be catastrophic.

how can you say such a thing....??
do you have confidence in yourself atall....??

okay....
then Nigeria is not ripe to use cars too....!!

does that make sense to you....??
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Azmanaty: 4:09pm On Dec 09, 2019
obidark:


Hiroshima was a nuclear bomb and not a nuclear plant....

It happened in Prypat Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011. Nigeria cannot handle a nuclear disaster

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Reference(m): 4:09pm On Dec 09, 2019
ShattaBandles:



It's Japan

Japan is most technically sophisticated country in the world but they still find it difficult in handling nuclear disaster.

Nigeria is playing with fire


But Japan is expanding its nuclear energy capacity. They know there are few alternatives. Fukushima was not a nuclear led disaster, it was a Tsunami led disaster. No one died or got injured from radiation poisoning. The surrounding land is contaminated but it was simply because the plant design was faulty, the backup generators situated below sea level and the sea wall design not anticipating such wave height.

If an oil refinery or coal fired plant was situated in the same path of the Tsunami, all hell would still have broken loose, the land would still be heavily polluted and lives in jeopardy.

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by obidark: 4:09pm On Dec 09, 2019
blackmarket:
and some day u will hear dat one dangote trailer lost control and ran into d nuclear plant. then radiation go kill all man.

typical black mind....
no pride,no self confidence....
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by obidark: 4:14pm On Dec 09, 2019
Azmanaty:


It happened in Prypat Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011. Nigeria cannot handle a nuclear disaster

it was a tzunami.....

hellllllooooooo....!!

and so what....??
i dont believe nigeria could handle a earthquake,so what....??

because una dont have self confidence doesnt mean all other blacks must think the same like you too....

you want to stay behind and play with solar,then fine....

but stop trying to put down all black people....
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Nobody: 4:19pm On Dec 09, 2019
Simplyleo:
Come, I don't understand. Is Nigeria by any chance thinking about embarking on nuclear power project? Hmmm.

Not just about the technology involved oh. Sustained required maintenance is the most important o. We can hire experts from abroad to come install, but will they be around to maintain? Even disposal of some radioactive substances is as important as installing them. undecided

The Russian Scientist and Engineer who built it will be running or operating the NR according to the article
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by EazyMoh(m): 4:19pm On Dec 09, 2019
ShattaBandles:



But why is it not built in the core Northern State where they have abundant of empty land
Nuclear plant needs a constant source of large volume of water for operations. The closet large water bodies to the "core north" are rivers Niger and Benue. Both rivers already have massive hydro projects, so after much survey Lokoja and Itu were considered the best sites for the projects. Mind this project was first initiated by Yar'adua administration.
Also you can read from the initial alarmist write-up, nowhere in Nigeria would be safe.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by STAdom(m): 4:19pm On Dec 09, 2019
A calculated project to flush out all non-arewa


Choi I weak.
The Three Gorges Dam is so big that it single handedly slowed down the earth rotation after its construction.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Azmanaty: 4:20pm On Dec 09, 2019
obidark:


it was a tzunami.....

hellllllooooooo....!!

and so what....??
i dont believe nigeria could handle a earthquake,so what....??

because una dont have self confidence doesnt mean all other blacks must think the same like you too....

you want to stay behind and play with solar,then fine....

but stop trying to put down all black people....

Oga, be sensible. No one is bringing any black man down. Tsunami destroyed Power plant 3 of the nuclear facility. The facility is even shut down and the community on lockdown; same thing in Chernobyl Ukraine. It is an abandoned town since 1986.

The truth still remains that Nigeria cannot manage a nuclear crises... ordinary fire we cant fight, it is now that kind of major disaster that you want to contain.

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by EazyMoh(m): 4:21pm On Dec 09, 2019
Reference:


But Japan is expanding its nuclear energy capacity. They know there are few alternatives. Fukushima was not a nuclear led disaster, it was a Tsunami led disaster. No one died or got injured from radiation poisoning. The surrounding land is contaminated but it was simply because the plant design was faulty, the backup generators situated below sea level and the sea wall design not anticipating such wave height.

If an oil refinery or coal fired plant was situated in the same path of the Tsunami, all hell would still have broken loose, the land would still be heavily polluted and lives in jeopardy.
God bless you, people fear what they don't understand. We have more complicated plants currently in operation in Nigeria that people are not even aware of.
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by obidark: 4:22pm On Dec 09, 2019
Azmanaty:


Oga, Tsunami destroyed Power plant 3 of the nuclear facility. The facility is even shut down and the community on lockdown; same thing in Chernobyl Ukraine. It is an abandoned town since 1986.

The truth still remains that Nigeria cannot manage a nuclear crises... ordinary fire we cant fight, it is now that kind of major disaster that you want to contain.

am i talkin to a brick wall here....??

its russians that will manage it....!!

are you deaf....??

btw....japan is not that much bigger in size than nigeria....

are all japanese people dead now....??!!

and its not only nigeria that wants it....
other african nations did the same deal with russia too....
Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Azmanaty: 4:24pm On Dec 09, 2019
EazyMoh:

God bless you, people fear what they don't understand. We have more complicated plants currently in operation in Nigeria that people are not even aware of.

Oga, human error caused Chernobyl disaster and the Nigerians that I know can make those kinds of error a million times over. Ordinary office maintenance, Nigerians cannot.. Go to Govt establishments and see for urself.. U want to manage nuclear facility undecided

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Re: Nuclear Power Stations In Kogi, Akwa Ibom Can Wipe Out Nigerians, Others by Azmanaty: 4:25pm On Dec 09, 2019
obidark:


am i talkin to a brick wall here....??

its russians that will manage it....!!

are you deaf....??

btw....japan is not that much bigger in size than nigeria....

are all japanese people dead now....??!!

The ones Russians and Ukrainians managed, was there not a major disaster there??

As for being deaf, I read with my eyes and not with me ears; Ode undecided

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