On 17/01/2019 16:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/01/2019 16:36, newshound wrote:
On 17/01/2019 12:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/01/2019 12:31, newshound wrote:
On 17/01/2019 11:28, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:08:48 +0000, newshound
wrote:

https://news.sky.com/story/hitachi-t...wales-11609379


A slightly fuller picture before Harry posts to say that it is.


It's sad that the government is prepared to pour massive amounts of
subsidy into renewables (ROC's), and allow them to charge high prices
for their electricity (CFD's), yet is being mealy-mouthed about the
best long-term option this country has for carbon-free generation for
many decades into the future.


Can't help thinking, too, that China and Japan saw getting their
designs into Britain as a way into Europe and other first world
markets, given the UK reputation for having a strict but effective
regulatory environment. And something approaching international
standardisation has got to happen if nuclear is to be a big part of
decarbonisation.

There are already international standards

Yes but only at high level, not the sort of thing that the UK
regulator requires.

yes preciseley that.

But evidently not good ones.

France combines control and safety systems, the UK (for good reason)
requires separate safety systems (otherwise we could just copy their
designs directly). Combining control and safety systems makes it far
harder to substantiate the safety functions, is more prone to error in
doing so and leaves them open to being affected by unexpected side
effects of future control system changes.

SteveW