After decades of having an industry crippled by multiple suppliers and
reactor designs, we are heading for three different suppliers and three
different designs (although at least they are ones which are being built
somewhere else too)

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...e=bf8ac 08dec

On 18/01/14 22:18, newshound wrote:
After decades of having an industry crippled by multiple suppliers and
reactor designs, we are heading for three different suppliers and three
different designs (although at least they are ones which are being built
somewhere else too)

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...e=bf8ac 08dec


Yess. Excluding Russia and China there are what - 4 reactor designs out
there being punted for 'new builds'

AP1000 (toshiba)
EPWR (EDF/Areva)
ABWR (Hitachi)
CANDUs latest (CANDU)

Even the ABWR aint bad, in the same ways a porsche aint bad, though it
still is a beetle in drag, its been developed to work a bit better..:-)

Personally I like CANDU, which is the one not on the table after CANDU
walked away citing 'regulatory uncertainty'


What is a shame is that the UKS AGRS - massively overpriced then - are
probably almost competitive today and have always been incredibly safe.



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