On 02/05/2019 10:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 02/05/2019 10:09, Steve Walker wrote:
The Hinkley point power station is hugely over budget and late. And
may never be completed.

Agreed. Which is why we need to produce one design that incorporates
all the latest knowledge on contruction, use and decomissioning and
roll them out - as France did.

That wont fix the problem of over regulation designed to strangle
nuclear power.

No, but it does mean only one set of design documents, operation docs
and safety case docs - the vast majority of which need not be reviewed
for the next reactor, as long as the design remains the same. That
vastly reduces the engineering and design costs and speeds up
implementation.

I agree that it does not solve the basic problem of overregulation, but
it does as least streamline part of the problem of getting new stations
licensed.

SteveW