A brave report? Perhaps the future has just arrived?

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Spanish Nuclear Forum president, Mª Teresa Domínguez, said at the presentation of the report that in Spain, last 2007, with only 8.5 percent of the power installed, nuclear plants supplied around 55.000 million of Kw·h, it is 17.2 percent of the total energy consumption , up to 320.000 million of Kw·h. Therefore, nuclear power arises as the most efficient source of electric power. In order to reduce CO2 emissions, nuclear power can be the best election to combat the greenhouse effect in the future.

In Spain, by the 2030, it could be interesting that about 33 percent of the total energy, might be produced by nuclear plants, reducing so the dependence from fossil fueling. To achieve this target, it will be necessary to build at least eleven new plants, with a total investment over 33 b €. This ten new plants will have a nominal power of 1000 MW each one.

So, if we can get some calculating number, as always we use to do it, you can get…

(33 b € / 11 new plants·1000 Mw)= 3 m € / Mw installed.
As the experience shows, this power can be operative by 30 years and producing 24x7, without dependence of climatology (sunny, raining, wind, and so).

If you compare with the main current figures in Solar Photovoltaic,
by 2.5 m € /MW installed. In addition, if you rest to Solar Photovoltaic the subsidies that deadline it is near, because customers are not ready to pay energy that is more expensive, then Mrs. Dominguez considerations are right.

And if you consider too the boosting of economy that nuclear plan promotes: 7,000 direct related jobs and others 140,000 during the plan developing, with a direct impact on GDP Spanish figures, adding it a 3% , the plan have great reasons to be considered by society.
We celebrate the brave report, which tries to harness the main problem in our society today that is energy. Even nuclear power has a great impact on people anchored still to an ancient feeling about this energy source.

Please, visit http://www.foronuclear.org for more details.