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lateStarter
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 Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: More nuclear coming online soon |
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Looks like the race is on between France and Russia to be the suppliers of choice to the world.
Bulgaria going with nuclear power plants
| Quote: | | SOFIA, Jan. 15, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- Bulgaria and Russia are to sign a contract for the construction of a nuclear plant later this week during the visit here of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Bulgarian minister said today |
One interesting thing in the article; supposedly from the signing of the contract in 2008, by only 2013 the first plant will be up and running.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: More nuclear coming online soon |
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More nukes are going to be built in Britain, too.
The Brit PM says they are good for the environment because there is
no CO2 production, and they are good for the economy and security because they don't use high priced oil and so aren't dependent on OPEC. |
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raober
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: More nuclear coming online soon |
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| Plantagenet wrote: | More nukes are going to be built in Britain, too.
The Brit PM says they are good for the environment because there is
no CO2 production, and they are good for the economy and security because they don't use high priced oil and so aren't dependent on OPEC. |
Britain is gonna be racing the clock...can they get the new capacity up before the older plants need to be decomissioned? Neat article on TOD the other day on this...
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Plantagenet
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: More nuclear coming online soon |
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| raober wrote: |
Britain is gonna be racing the clock...can they get the new capacity up before the older plants need to be decomissioned? Neat article on TOD the other day on this...
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Very interesting stuff. Sounds like the UK may need to build even more nukes then proposed to replace the nukes plants being decommissioned and to replace the gas plants that are losing their gas supply.  |
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Tanada
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: More nuclear coming online soon |
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| Plantagenet wrote: | | raober wrote: |
Britain is gonna be racing the clock...can they get the new capacity up before the older plants need to be decomissioned? Neat article on TOD the other day on this...
The Oil Drum |
Very interesting stuff. Sounds like the UK may need to build even more nukes then proposed to replace the nukes plants being decommissioned and to replace the gas plants that are losing their gas supply. |
Its not nearly as bad as those stats make it sound, the two plants schedualed for closure this year only produce 217 MWe each, the two schedualed for 2010 only produce 490 MWe each. Those are the last schedualed closures until 2014, by which time anywhere from zero to 10 new EPR style NPP's could be built and/or building. A single EPR at 1600 MWe would replace all four of the reactors closing in the next couple years.
As for the four plants to close in 2014, two are 595 MWe and two are 615 MWe. As a matter of fact of the 18 reactors schedualed to close between today and 2023 the largest one of them is 625 MWe! Replacing them on a two for one basis would still give the UK a significant increase in nuclear power production, and replacing them on a one for one basis would let them phase out all of their coal and many of their natural gas burning plants as well.
edit forgot the link! LINK closure table is about 1/3rd of the way through the document.
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