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Not saying they’re not, but I’d be curious what measures of reactor quality you’ve seen?
by ericd 5y ago
Not saying they’re not, but I’d be curious what measures of reactor quality you’ve seen?
- GordonS 5y agoNumber of severe incidents divided by number of reactor days?
- rgbrenner 5y agoChina has the newest plants in the world: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/age-profile-of-nuclear-power-capacity-in-selected-regions-2019 https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/age-profile-o... We don't know how they'll perform as they age. If we calculated quality as you suggest, they would probably win.. but we would expect brand new plants to have fewer issues than 30 year old plants.
- littlestymaar 5y ago> but we would expect brand new plants to have fewer issues than 30 year old plants. That's a strange expectation to have. Ever heard of the bathtub curve ?
- natch 5y agoIn your formula, where do you envision the number of incidents being derived from? China excels at hiding important information from public view, so I would take their data, and data indirectly sourced from them, with a grain of salt. And oh, by the way, one could say the same about the nuclear industry and its captured regulatory bodies in general as well.
- GordonS 5y agoThat is true, which is why I specifically mentioned "severe" incidents - even if less severe stuff happens and is hushed up, it's impossible to keep radioactive particles blowing across the globe quiet, so we'd surely know of those.
- eru 5y agoWouldn't you want to normalize by Joules produced instead of by reactor days?