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106 comments on Andris Piebalgs: Nuclear and the EU's Energy Policy
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This chart does't include Romania and Bulgaria .Romania has two CANDU reactors operating at Cernavoda with two more in construction and Bulgaria has the Kozloduy power station with 4 aging Chernobal type reactors and a new power station in construction at Belene with two reactors .
It's nice to see that the EU is finally waking up. Without incredible advances in energy storage technology, wind & solar will never be able to provide more than 10-20% of electric generation. They are also many times more expensive than competing technologies.
Hopefully it still isn't too late to avoid a climate collapse. If only the wisdom of James Lovelock was followed sooner.
For those new to this debate, it is likely that fast reactor technology will solve sustainability and waste issues:
http://www.ans.org/pi/ps/docs/ps74.pdf
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=340
The image is from 2003, it does not include the 1.6 GW reactor under construction in Finland either.
Likewise UK is down to 19 reactors in commission, I think, with the Oldbury Magnox station due to close later this year bringing this down to 17.
Guys, if any of you know of a more recent piece of media on this, please post it here. Thanks.
The Australian Uranium Association and the World Nuclear Association briefing papers. They are both obviously pro-nuclear, but the factual information, particularly on individual countries, appears to be comprehensive and up to date:
http://www.uic.com.au/nip.htm
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/info.html
My post from a few months back has the latest information for the UK nuclear power stations: Nuclear Britain
I'm not familiar with the situation in Romania but Bulgaria currently has one nuclear power plant with 6 reactors and only the newest two (VVER-1000) are in use. The 4 older reactors - (VVER-440) have already been shut down. The new power plant in Belene has contracts for design, construction and installation signed for 2 1000MW reactors but it's not yet under construction. All reactors are VVER type and none are RBMK (the type used in Chernobyl) ie they are water-moderated instead of graphite-moderated design.
You are totally wrong about Kozloduy. It does NOT have the graphite RBMK reactors, it has the light water pressurized VVER-1000 reactors with a heavy re-enforced concrete containment structure, unlike Chernobyl. Maybe we should just call all nuclear reactors "Three-Mile-Island-Chernobyl" reactors. Who cares about the facts, right...
It's sad to see the same lies repeated over and over again.
"Bulgaria has the Kozloduy power station with 4 aging Chernobal type reactors"
Kozloduy power station has 6 reactors not 4. However only two of them are in operation - the two VVER-1000 reactors, similar to the ones Russia just completed in Tainwan NPP in China. The other 4 are of model VVER-440, and were stopped from operation under EU pressure by 2006. The VVER-440 type has been successfully operated for more than 3 decades now in NPPs in Finland (Lovvitse), Check Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria.
None of the reactors, including the stopped ones is of the "Chernobyl type", which is RBMK. RBMK is the only reactor type in the world, which does not feature a containment vessel - a fact which made the Chernobyl disaster possible. Comparing it with the VVERs is tedious to say the least.