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It's okay China and France are still doing wepl I think. China especially seems quite bullish on nuclear so I guess there's still hope. Korea, India and Canada

It's okay China and France are still doing wepl I think. China especially seems quite bullish on nuclear so I guess there's still hope. Korea, India and Canada are still doing okay too.

imglorp 10y ago
Furthermore, China is also investigating Thorium tech. This might be the bigger news long term.
- morsch 10y ago
  Built upon the technology of Germany's AVR[1]. We're still cleaning up that mess. "The total AVR decommissioning costs are expected to be in the order of 1.5 – 2.5 billion €, all public funds, ie to exceed its construction costs by far." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor
  - imglorp 10y ago
    That sounds like a mess but it was a U/Th, pebble bed mess. Hopefully Th molten salt method works out better.
morsch 10y ago
France is doing so well that during last November's cold snap they were considering cutting power to industry and rolling power outages for the population because too many of their ancient, brittle nuclear power plants were out of commission and the import capacity from neighbouring countries was at its limit. http://www.reuters.com/article/france-power-winteroutlook-idUSL8N1D92V1 http://www.reuters.com/article/france-power-winteroutlook-id... (Reuters claims that there wasn't enough spare capacity in Germany; in fact the transfer capacity of ~2 GW was the limiting factor; http://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=32860 http://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=32860) For what it's worth, I think the temperatures improved before the more drastic measures had to be implemented. And of course people are free to argue that taking those French plants down for review was an overreaction by an overly critical nuclear regulation regime.
- maxfurman 10y ago
  Seems to me like the problem there stems from the French government skimping on maintenance, rather than their decision to use nuclear plants in the first place.
drdrey 10y ago
FWIW, 2 of the 5 major candidates to the French presidential election (Hamon and Mélenchon) are calling for the end of nuclear power in France.

It's okay China and France are still doing wepl I think. China especially seems quite bullish on nuclear so I guess there's still hope. Korea, India and Canada are still doing okay too.

imglorp 10y ago

Furthermore, China is also investigating Thorium tech. This might be the bigger news long term.

morsch 10y ago
Built upon the technology of Germany's AVR[1]. We're still cleaning up that mess. "The total AVR decommissioning costs are expected to be in the order of 1.5 – 2.5 billion €, all public funds, ie to exceed its construction costs by far." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor
- imglorp 10y ago
  That sounds like a mess but it was a U/Th, pebble bed mess. Hopefully Th molten salt method works out better.

morsch 10y ago

France is doing so well that during last November's cold snap they were considering cutting power to industry and rolling power outages for the population because too many of their ancient, brittle nuclear power plants were out of commission and the import capacity from neighbouring countries was at its limit. http://www.reuters.com/article/france-power-winteroutlook-idUSL8N1D92V1 http://www.reuters.com/article/france-power-winteroutlook-id... (Reuters claims that there wasn't enough spare capacity in Germany; in fact the transfer capacity of ~2 GW was the limiting factor; http://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=32860 http://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=32860) For what it's worth, I think the temperatures improved before the more drastic measures had to be implemented. And of course people are free to argue that taking those French plants down for review was an overreaction by an overly critical nuclear regulation regime.

maxfurman 10y ago
Seems to me like the problem there stems from the French government skimping on maintenance, rather than their decision to use nuclear plants in the first place.

drdrey 10y ago

FWIW, 2 of the 5 major candidates to the French presidential election (Hamon and Mélenchon) are calling for the end of nuclear power in France.