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Imports and exports help to smooth out the load curve, but I don't down where you get that broadly France relies on German coal in the summer and winter. French

by Bayart 5y ago

Imports and exports help to smooth out the load curve, but I don't down where you get that broadly France relies on German coal in the summer and winter. French net CO2 emissions remain stable and low the entire year, that's it. As far as I'm aware, heat waves have very little impact on nuclear energy production. Their impact on river temperatures is a few tenth of a degree and they can function on fairly high water temperatures (bellow 28c). I've read that over the last decade, which had several heat-waves, they accounted for an average production loss of 0.3%. >It works so "well" that the French taxpayer will have to pay the UK so they can deliver their guaranteed energy prices the over-due and over budget reactor they desperately try to finish will generate. Pretty much the entirety of the problems we've had with the EPR program has to do stopping building nuclear power plants for decades and losing the associated skill-set and industrial base.

natmaka 5y ago
> much the entirety of the problems we've had with the EPR program has to do stopping building nuclear power plants for decades In 1999 a new reactor started in France (Civaux-2). In 2005 a new building site started (at Olkiluoto, Finland). Even by considering start dates (Civaux-2: 1991) and neglecting that skills are needed during the building (and not only when it started) they only are 14 years apart. Moreover many skills are needed for the maintenance of the existing fleet (in France). Olkiluoto was planned as soon as in 2000, when its builder Areva NP created an agency in Finland in order to sell the project. Also: most skills (concrete, welding...) aren't completely specific to the nuclear industry: part of those are shared with many other fields. How a huge and well-organized heavy industry which sells projects could let key skills evaporate in a few years (no, not 'decades')?

by Bayart 5y ago

natmaka 5y ago

> much the entirety of the problems we've had with the EPR program has to do stopping building nuclear power plants for decades In 1999 a new reactor started in France (Civaux-2). In 2005 a new building site started (at Olkiluoto, Finland). Even by considering start dates (Civaux-2: 1991) and neglecting that skills are needed during the building (and not only when it started) they only are 14 years apart. Moreover many skills are needed for the maintenance of the existing fleet (in France). Olkiluoto was planned as soon as in 2000, when its builder Areva NP created an agency in Finland in order to sell the project. Also: most skills (concrete, welding...) aren't completely specific to the nuclear industry: part of those are shared with many other fields. How a huge and well-organized heavy industry which sells projects could let key skills evaporate in a few years (no, not 'decades')?