New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

[sailorman]

about 20 years too late

New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

 

[Tomahawk]

Built by the virus infecting Chinese?

 

[Lucky Duck]

Built by the virus infecting Chinese?

No, it's a French design. One of which is currently being built at Hinckley point

 

[Tomahawk]

Thanks for some sense.

 

[Seashoreman]

I live within sight of Sizewell Power Station and remember the Public Enquiry (which lasted many months).
I think your question should be: "Who will build it"?
There needs to be a small army of labourers/groundworkers and semi-skilled people working for a few years just to get the foundations and infrastructure established. Sizewell B started construction in 1988 and took around seven years to start generating,. This was mostly the Irish
on initial construction but I doubt they will be interested. Maybe Eastern Europeans?
Talking to the Senior Technicians over the years we apparently are not training people with the necessary skills to operate such a plant on completion. Perhaps its a chicken and egg situation? Otherwise yes, maybe ,we will be recruiting Chinese Nuclear Engineers to operate it?

 

[pandroid]

I live within sight of Sizewell Power Station and remember the Public Enquiry (which lasted many months).
I think your question should be: "Who will build it"?
There needs to be a small army of labourers/groundworkers and semi-skilled people working for a few years just to get the foundations and infrastructure established. Sizewell B started construction in 1988 and took around seven years to start generating,. This was mostly the Irish
on initial construction but I doubt they will be interested. Maybe Eastern Europeans?
Talking to the Senior Technicians over the years we apparently are not training people with the necessary skills to operate such a plant on completion. Perhaps its a chicken and egg situation? Otherwise yes, maybe ,we will be recruiting Chinese Nuclear Engineers to operate it?

According to the media, the folks building Hinckley will move over when they’ve finished there.

 

[Praxinoscope]

Good news that we are starting to take nuclear power seiously again, but what is happening with the Rolls Royce 'Micro' nuclear power stations that seem to be a more relevant way forward than giant mega stations.

 

[PeterV]

I think the problem is that our government isn't prepared to invest in our own country's engineering, thinking we only need bankers to make money.

 

[Praxinoscope]

I think the problem is that our government isn't prepared to invest in our own country's engineering, thinking we only need bankers to make money.

Especially when Britain used to lead the world in the generation of electricity from nuclear power.

 

[LittleSister]

There needs to be a small large army of labourers/groundworkers and semi-skilled people working for a few years just to get the foundations and infrastructure established. Sizewell B started construction in 1988 and took around seven years to start generating,.

There, corrected that for you.!

From my involvement in other projects a couple of years ago, it was anticipated that the scale of construction at Sizewell was to be so great and long lasting it will have a big knock on regional effect on the availability of construction workers, exacerbating the existing skills shortages.

 

[johnalison]

There, corrected that for you.!

From my involvement in other projects a couple of years ago, it was anticipated that the scale of construction at Sizewell was to be so great and long lasting it will have a big knock on regional effect on the availability of construction workers, exacerbating the existing skills shortages.

Yeah, but. Small is the same as large, innit?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Well, something's got to power all of these electric cars.?

 

[sailorman]

Especially when Britain used to lead the world in the generation of electricity from nuclear power.

Then we let the heavy industry go to the wall

 

[Aquaboy]

It seemed to me there were few afternoons this year when a sea breeze got going. I blame the wind farms...........

 

[davidej]

I assume it means that Bradwell is unlikely to go ahead.

 

[johnalison]

It seemed to me there were few afternoons this year when a sea breeze got going. I blame the wind farms...........

They must have some effect. After all, they are designed to take energy out of the wind. I have noticed when sailing through a wind farm in about 15 knots wind that the wind died and didn’t recover for about another ten miles or so.

 

[Hydrozoan]

They must have some effect. After all, they are designed to take energy out of the wind. I have noticed when sailing through a wind farm in about 15 knots wind that the wind died and didn’t recover for about another ten miles or so.

An interesting subject; a paper of 2016 (Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low generation limits) says that 'At maximum wind power use, wind speeds are reduced to 58% of their original value, and lowers [sic] the capacity factor to 20% of what would be generated by an isolated turbine.' There's also of course increased turbulence downstream - but such matters, and the areal extent of local effects, are presumably addressed in the EIAs of major wind energy developments, so somebody here can probably point to something more informative than my amateur searching.

 

[ears media]

The new railway sidings at Lowestoft were perhaps a gamble that has now paid off - if they can deliver materials by rail again, that's got to be better than the lorries through the small towns and villages.

 

[johnalison]

An interesting subject; a paper of 2016 (Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low generation limits) says that 'At maximum wind power use, wind speeds are reduced to 58% of their original value, and lowers [sic] the capacity factor to 20% of what would be generated by an isolated turbine.' There's also of course increased turbulence downstream - but such matters, and the areal extent of local effects, are presumably addressed in the EIAs of major wind energy developments, so somebody here can probably point to something more informative than my amateur searching.

I read somewhere that the tree cover over the US massively reduces the winds there.

 

[Hydrozoan]

I read somewhere that the tree cover over the US massively reduces the winds there.

And, presumably, did so more in the past - with an even bigger change in the UK. It surprised me to see from that paper how rapidly we have in many places approached, or reached, saturation in terms of ('renewable') wind power.