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blueglow discovered 8 months ago- Big article on Britain's brewing nuclear power crisis... A huge 6GW of generational capacity will be offline by 2018 thanks to ageing reactors. Put another way, within a decade nuclear power here in the UK will be mostly gone - a few years after oil has peaked and about the same time natural gas supplies start to wane; you can see why the government is getting impatient. Capacity of the UK nuclear fleet, stacked, from the peak capacity and including published decommission schedule. Three life extensions are shown in red. Source: British Energy & Nuclear Decommissioning Agency The government is trying to help paint a rosy picture of nuclear power and get the nuclear industry to build some new capacity in the UK. However, even if the new plants could be completed quickly, it'll be around 2020 before any new capacity comes online... That's without the waste and decommissioning issues being adequately met. At the same time there are waiting lists for reactor components and a shortage of skilled nuclear staff. All this cost and legacy for a 4% cut in CO2 emissions. Nuclear power still doesn't add up logically, not that that matters if it can be made to add up economically - with taxpayer's money, of course.
- "In 2006 the UK generated 394 TWh of electricity - what will the country generate in 2020?"
- Big article on Britain's brewing nuclear power crisis... A huge 6GW of generational capacity will be offline by 2018 thanks to ageing reactors. Put another way, within a decade nuclear power here in the UK will be mostly gone - a few years after oil has peaked and about the same time natural gas supplies start to wane; you can see why the government is getting impatient. Capacity of the UK nuclear fleet, stacked, from the peak capacity and including published decommission schedule. Three life extensions are shown in red. Source: British Energy & Nuclear Decommissioning Agency The government is trying to help paint a rosy picture of nuclear power and get the nuclear industry to build some new capacity in the UK. However, even if the new plants could be completed quickly, it'll be around 2020 before any new capacity comes online... That's without the waste and decommissioning issues being adequately met. At the same time there are waiting lists for reactor components and a shortage of skilled nuclear staff. All this cost and legacy for a 4% cut in CO2 emissions. Nuclear power still doesn't add up logically, not that that matters if it can be made to add up economically - with taxpayer's money, of course.
- imorgen rated 8 months ago
- Found on the pages of blueglow The nameplate capacity of the UK nuclear fleet, stacked, from the peak capacity in the late nineties and following the published decommission schedule. Three life extensions are shown in red. Source: British Energy & Nuclear Decommissioning Agency
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