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Here's the new build nuclear for the UK - https://www.niauk.org/industry-issues/supply-chain/nuclear-new-build-supply-chain/ https://www.niauk.org/industry-issu
by inflatableDodo 8y ago
Here's the new build nuclear for the UK - https://www.niauk.org/industry-issues/supply-chain/nuclear-new-build-supply-chain/ https://www.niauk.org/industry-issues/supply-chain/nuclear-n...
None of these are Gen IV reactors, thought the last two are labelled as gen III+, which looks like the kind of labelling a hopeful chipmaker might slap on a processor when they add some bells and whistles to an existing design. Do you know where any gen IV reactors are being built currently? I hear a lot about them, but they seem mostly to be vapourware.
Also, Hinkley C, which is currently under construction, has a strike price so high it will probably be mothballed as soon as it is finished, with an analysis by London stockbrokers Liberum Capital describing it as 'the most expensive conventional power station in the world' and 'economically insane'.
This is the new nuclear actually being built. If there is better, safer, cheaper available in gen IV reactors, why is that not under construction instead? If they are available, the UK government will presumably also know about these reactors, yet it is apparently not interested in building them.