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I’m not Canadian so news to me that Canada has built nuclear plants around the world. As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to bu
by fsuts 4mo ago
I’m not Canadian so news to me that Canada has built nuclear plants around the world.
As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to build here so not sure why Canada didn’t get chosen for that.
- crypttales 4mo agoBecause the Candu is insanely expensive.
- HerbManic 4mo agoSo France and Canada both build nuclear plants. Must be something in the french language that makes folks just want to do the cool stuff. If it is anything like all my french cookware, it will be done wonderfully.
- badc0ffee 4mo agoThis analysis is missing that Quebec doesn't have any nuclear plants. (Although NB has one, which counts for half?)
- applied_heat 4mo agoQuebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company
- HerbManic 4mo agoWell there goes that theory.
- olalonde 4mo agoAtkinsRéalis (fka SNC-Lavalin) does build nuclear reactors and is headquartered in Montreal[0]. [0] https://www.atkinsrealis.com/en/markets-and-services/markets/nuclear https://www.atkinsrealis.com/en/markets-and-services/markets...
- newsclues 4mo agoThey bought CANDU reactor designs from the government
- gottorf 4mo agoQuebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.
- QGQBGdeZREunxLe 4mo agoThe French are undoubtedly a good choice considering nuclear produces the majority of their electricity and EDF already operates in the UK.
- protocolture 4mo ago>As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to build here so not sure why Canada didn’t get chosen for that. Its crazy how fast britain has fallen off nuclear, the original british nuclear rollout should have stood the UK up as a permanent nuclear energy powerhouse but France took it from them.
- fsuts 4mo agoIf not aware - uk government is backing Roll Royce to produce small reactor solutions (SMR). And Rolls is going around the world signing up sales agreements for them. The underlying tech though is yet to be proven, so some risk won’t deliver on time/to budget/at all.
- protocolture 4mo agoSMR's seem like a pipe dream tbh.
- Gud 4mo agoWhy? It's a proven concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85gesta_Nuclear_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85gesta_Nuclear_Plant
- _aavaa_ 4mo agoThe problem isn’t the technology, it’s the economics. The assembly and economies of scale for “mass production” have not been proven in practice; who will you sell the countless expensive ones before it gets cheaper? And the smaller reactor has diseconomies of scale working against it for the electricity it produces. So the $/MWh price is much higher than for larger reactors.
- pjc50 4mo ago> should have stood the UK up as a permanent nuclear energy powerhouse It was a crash weapons program disguised as a civilian energy program, that very nearly went badly wrong at Windscale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire ; so much so that the site had to be renamed to Sellafield. The rollout was hampered by the choice of two ultimately dead end technologies, Magnox and AGR. Then it ran into the industrial unrest and general lack of money of the 1970s, during which the government cancelled its space program (Black Arrow), and very nearly cancelled Concorde. The "white heat of technology" had worn off. Thatcher attempted to restart it, resulting in Sizewell B, but of course after 26 April 1986 any new nuclear was completely unthinkable and that was the end until Hinkley C. Which is still not finished.
- Moldoteck 4mo agoUK's regulations are so bad that even Hitachi pulled out from building ABWR