On 08/11/16 13:47, newshound wrote:
On 11/5/2016 11:09 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 05/11/16 10:38, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
francce is in deep **** because half their nukes
are out fore political reasons
I can see from WNN that they have a handful down for steel checks on the
pressure vessels, what others are off?
20 out of 58 are offline
http://www.powermag.com/frances-nucl...lity-concerns/
"The discovery of widespread carbon segregation problems in critical
nuclear plant components has crippled the French power industry€”20 of
the countrys 58 reactors are currently offline and under heavy
scrutiny. Frances nuclear safety chairman said more anomalies €świll
likely be found,€ť as the extent of the contagion is still being
uncovered."
"critics continued to push for a more stringent investigation. In
September 2015, the release of an independent evaluation conducted by
Large and Associates€”a UK-based engineering firm€”at the *request of
Greenpeace France* really blew the doors open."
EDF says., sure there are issues, but they are not relevant to safety
per se'
Then Greenpeace commissions a report to find different.
In the current left leaning anti-nuclear EU climate, that's enough to
shut down one third of Frances nukes.
This is the down-side to having highly standardised plant, compared to
the UK approach where almost every site is completely different.
No. its the downside of having a massively politicised nuclear regulator
who responds to pressure from Greenpeace. Who are funded by anti-nuclear
interests
The situation with the French reactors is no worse than the graphite
cracking in the AGRs - basically there is an issue, its not serious and
can be dealt with during standard statutory inspections.
It has
bitten the French once or twice before, but on the whole their track
record has been pretty good. I'm confident that the French regulator
will be as thorough as ours, so I'm not worried about exploding plant.
But it could be *very* expensive if they can't find a fix. I assume they
will start with a combination of sampling and modelling.
You just replace any suspect parts. Or if that's too expensive signal
end of reactor life.
I'm confident that the French regulator will have been instructed
politically I'm confident that the French regulator to be far more
'thorough' than is necessary...
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