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> Nuclear power stations are a one off. No? You still have to replace fuel, fix mechanical issues (if they are fixable). There are turbines in nuclear plants t
by tpm 3y ago
> Nuclear power stations are a one off.
No? You still have to replace fuel, fix mechanical issues (if they are fixable). There are turbines in nuclear plants too.
And another thing is that nuclear plants need highly competent and educated specialist workforce, and after that the very expensive decommissioning needs another specialist workforce, and so on.
- DrBazza 3y agoNuclear power stations are a one off build. I can’t think of two or more identical builds.
- defrost 3y agoAre you talking stations (size of ground pads, number of toilets | parking bays) or reactors ? ( Hydro electric dams are largely "one off builds" - yet many share common turbine units and families ) Does that include the 25 reactors in South Korea that come from families such as OPR-1000 (basic), OPR-1000 (improved), APR-1400, etc? https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-o-s/south-korea.aspx https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPR-1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPR-1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APR-1400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APR-1400
- DrBazza 3y agoThe entire station. They're vast and substantial.
- tpm 3y agoThere are lots of identical VVER reactors, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER Also RBMK (Chernobyl) was a serial production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK and so on.