HPC

[Joeboy]

Read this article and thought of this thread.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx6e2x0kdyo

[ecogeorge]

Cant think of many so called clean energys that cost 2 billion a year to look after their waste .... every year,,,,, year on year....

[AE-NMidlands]

Cant think of many so called clean energys that cost 2 billion a year to look after their waste .... every year,,,,, year on year....

... for centuries to come! When I read that article I saw the graphic

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and noticed the cooling towers in it! If they have to dump the decay heat, why not put in some heat pumps and a district heating scheme?

[dan_b]

It's happened again - 2nd automatic shutdown in a month

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy ... 024-09-17/

oh dear oh dear, no way of wrapping this one up pretty, although they do try to........

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ne ... c516&ei=61

An automatic reactor scram is never good event, if a reactor has to be shut down its preferable for the operators to be aware and conducted their own reactor shut down then at least they can be said to be in control. Automatic shut down suggests the instrumentation had to do the task because the control room did not act quickly enough.

Another calamity along the route for this reactor type.

Moxi