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And this particular refurbishment is in one of the countries with serious cost and schedule overruns for its nuclear build, and a country and specifically a reg
by rgmerk 2y ago
And this particular refurbishment is in one of the countries with serious cost and schedule overruns for its nuclear build, and a country and specifically a region that is bad at physical infrastructure.
- mpweiher 2y agoThis is a country that simply hasn't built nuclear for ages. And the only one (two reactors) it did build was a brand new design (FOAK - First of a Kind). With COVID happening. Like everything, this gets better with practice.
- rgmerk 2y agoThis is a recommissioning of a 50 year old plant that’s been sitting idle for five years from an era when nuclear plants were all bespoke. Does that sound more like an nth of a kind project, or a first of a kind project?
- mpweiher 2y agoIt sounds like a refurbishment of a plant that was working just fine until 2019, not a new build of a design where you don't even know if it can be built. (The originally submitted Vogtle-3/4 design could not be built) In fact, last I checked they had already planned this refurbishment, but could not obtain the funds to do it, and thus shut down the plant instead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯