Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter
by fabian2k on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:31AM
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The French nuclear power plants are one of the problems right now. I'm not convinced that France has an advantage here as they also don't seem to be able to build new reactors for a reasonable price in a reasonable timeframe. Having a lot of old reactors that need to be shut down a lot due to temperatures and maintenance it not really helping things.
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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter
by sofixa on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:27AM
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> I'm not convinced that France has an advantage here as they also don't seem to be able to build new reactors for a reasonable price in a reasonable timeframe.
Of course the first reactors of an entirely new design will have problems, delays and be over budget. It's something extremely complex that needs to be extremely secure.
As with before, lessons will be learned, and future reactors of the same design will come along for cheaper and faster.