Moxi wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:25 am
If the treasury wants to get angry then they need to dig up Mr Attlee and Mrs Thatcher and have a very strong conversation because that's where the costs originated, its no good moaning at the present group of people wrestling with the national legacy issue.
Moxi
Nooo, I think a lot of people would agree she's in the best place for her, didn't they build a huge concrete cover over her, erm no that was Chernobyl, both pretty toxic...
dan_b wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:49 pm
Flamanville 3 is now up to 9% of its output as EDF continues to complete the commissioning of its long-overdue, hugely over-budget EPR reactor...
It will be replaced after the reactor's first operating cycle, so 15 to 18 months after it's actually generating and consuming fuel in meaningful quantities I guess.
No new info about how the path to actual power generation is going, but I guess no news is good news.
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Oh dear, having had to admit their plan to deter fish from the cooling water intakes would not work EDF are now in the firing line for their fall back plan of a salt Marsh, I have to admit my personal view of their proposal was incredulity - how they believe it is justified to destroy one environment to produce another one to meet their needs is beyond me ?
It simply cannot be that difficult to devise a set of fish escape points before the intake water screens - of which there will be several different types and grades. Probably more the case that the already constructed intakes are not sized for the screening grades required to remove the fish that the sonic fish deterrent wont actually deter ? My concern is the secretary of state wont be making an impartial adjudication on this given the scale of the development and overseas political intervention.
I thought there already was a salt marsh there which had been (re)created a few years back and was considered a huge success from a biodiversity point of view?
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On Sunday, the 1,600 megawatt Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor tripped again, the latest in a series of faults and outages that have plagued the new facility and caused the market to reach out for back-up power to fill the gap.
I can see this being a big problem for HPC also, when losing 3GW instantaneously can crash the grid !
I can see that as a real problem yes - although it's two 1.6GW nuclear plants co-located so unlikely that both would trip simultaneously, but can imagine the local grid management will be very complex?
Actually does anyone know what size the actual generators are? Surely it can't be one single 1.6GWp turbine/generator?
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