Nuclear.si (part II)

In its efforts for sustainable developement, enviromental protection and economic growth our goverment should plan and invest in Nuclear Power plant Kr?ko 2 as soon as possibile. Here are my reasons.

1. Based on the research done by our beloved ministry of enviroment, Slovenia is energy dependant. Very much so, and the dependancy is increasing each year as the energy consumption grows for around 1-2% annualy. Being dependant on Russian nationalised gas production and very unreliable gas prices really isn't all that smart national strategy. The only clear technological and economically feasible solution to the dependancy problem is increasing the national production and also work on efficiency. And because our natural resources are almost used ( hydroelectric potential) or very dirty and ecologically unacceptable ( coal) and better technological efficency can only get you in a bit better position, but can't completely solve the problem, we should build a one gigawatt Kr?ko II. As many other rational European countries ( GB, Sweeden, Finland...) we would decrease our energetical and also political dependance from mother Russia and its willingness to "give gas".
2. Slovenia is bound by the Kyoto protocol. And if we continoue to economically grow in the way we are now we are going to increase the Co2 emissions, instead of decrease them as we "promised". The problem with breaking our promise is that it will cost us and our economy quite a lot of money, becauase we will have to buy emitting cupones for the price of 100 euro per evey excessive emitted ton of Co2. You don't have to be a PhD economist to figure out that will have a negative effect on the economy. Furthermore, we are a developed nation, which also cares about our planet, which we call home. We know we are not a numberous nation, but that shouldn't stop us from doing our share of saving our home from the dangers of global warming. And drastically cutting our Co2 emissions by using a virtually Co2 free, advanced technology is a way to go.
3. Investing into a big, reliable power project also means we don't only increase the national GDP by this investement alone, but also create an energy reliable zone, which is more attractive to foreign investments, which strengthen our economy even further. And we don't only want predictable and stable electricity prices for the investors and economy, we also want reliable supply of power for our children. We want them to have at least the same developement potential as we do. And cheap and reliable energy supply is one of the most basic factors in ensuring that.
4. This investment would also further increase the nuclear safety for our nation, because investing into even more advanced and safer nuclear plant would have spill over effects on the existing technologies. Greater common financial mass would enable even greater investments in security technologies and would enable us to build even safer and more advanced treatment of nuclear waste material. Perhaps we will even be able to reuse current wastes with fast breeder reactors. And we would also show that we support EU in its eforts to develop a commercially fisable iter reactor, by showing very practically that we are not afraid of advanced technologies.

All the fears conected with nucleat power are obsolete, there are no real alternatives, I like Slovenia to be developing, independant, earth friendly. safer and technologically advanced so this is one of the first times I support one of the current ministers ( Andrej Vizjak) in his efforts.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Albert Einstein.