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woodburner · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 4071

Why should London be the only place to worry about? We are well west of Chernobyl, that didn’t stop the fallout coming this way. In anycase, most of the country is north east of Hinckley Point, we’re all going to cop it.
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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 3:09 pm Post subject:

I was making the point about London because of the huge economic impact that would result from its contamination. Obviously the public health and economic effects on the rest of the country would be drastic but TPTB will take more notice of the economic impact on London than of anything else.
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Potemkin Villager · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Narnia

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:22 pm Post subject:

"A Fukushima incident won't happen to us" is the government attitude. Never mind the fact that they're only planning for a one metre sea level rise by the end of the century!! They have taken the IPCC Report at its word and only planned for what they have predicted and not allowed anything for error. In view of the consequences of such an error this is criminal in my view.
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adam2 · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:56 pm Post subject:

Industrial dispute underway at present by a significant minority of workers at Hinkley point. Argument over payment for "snow days"
Source---BBC TV news tonight.

Edit to add that the dispute is now over
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adam2 · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:15 pm Post subject:

This has gone very quiet, Is this because it is all going splendidly, or because more delays are considered to be yesterdays news?

I observe that the "TWINNED WITH FUKUSHIMA" road sign has been removed again Smile

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raspberry-blower · Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 1836

In related news, EDF are struggling with their reactor at Flamanville:

clv101 · Site Admin Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 8167

I was reading about the scale of the water inlet pipes, 7m in diameter sucking in ~130 cubic metres of water a second. Big numbers.
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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 7:44 pm Post subject:

This piece quotes a study that says that the average economic loss on every one of the 674 nuclear reactors ever built since 1951 is about 4.8 billion Euros per 100MW reactor. And that doesn't include decommissioning and long term waste storage!
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PS_RalphW · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 5580 Location: Cambridge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49823305

Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget

That's 10% - so far.

and 15 months late - so far.

Any one want to lay bets on go live date - if I live that long!

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 2:53 pm Post subject:

It's also being built to take account of only a 0.9m sea level rise by the end of the century so with ice loss accelerating and sea level rise with it who is going to foot the bill for the additional protection it will need? Any guesses other than the taxpayer/electricity bill payer?
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