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The last reactors France built all (including the one in Finland) have had more than 10 years delay compared to what was planned, so I doubt we are going to bui
by forty 4y ago
The last reactors France built all (including the one in Finland) have had more than 10 years delay compared to what was planned, so I doubt we are going to build 14 in the next decade :)
- zeristor 4y agoThey could well do, if they’re working out how to optimise it, and the workers get the hang of it. As I understand it a large problem has been with poor quality welds being caught too late in the process. Quality isn’t an easy thing to change, but I trust they can remedy for future builds.
- Manuel_D 4y agoThe last reactors France has built were also the first of their kind built in the country. The reactors built during the Messmer plan were mostly of 4 distinct types built repeatedly. The main to away from analysis of nuclear plant cost history is that plants become cheaper when the knowledge from previous builds is taken to subsequent builds. Problems that are encountered in earlier builds are avoided, lowering cost. Plants built during the nuclear boom in the 1960s and early 70s often had inflation -adjusted costs of 1-2 billion USD per GW of capacity. And that's with no intermittency and a capacity factor of over 90%.