Nuclear plant construction being cancelled
#1
03-16-2011, 09:58 AM
Nuclear plant construction being cancelled
3-16-2011 -
China announced that it was suspending approvals for planned plants and would launch a comprehensive safety check of facilities.
China has 13 nuclear power plants in use now. China has about two dozen reactors under construction and planed to increase nuclear electricity generation about seven-fold over the next 10 years (7x13=91).
In France, the heads of both houses of parliament ordered a legislative investigation into "the future of the French nuclear industry." An emergency meeting scheduled Wednesday in the lower house of parliament was to include the chiefs of nuclear reactor builder Areva and Electricite de France, the world's biggest operator of nuclear plants.
France was among the few countries to continue developing nuclear power after Chernobyl. It is more dependent on nuclear energy than any other country and its companies market nuclear technology around the world, including to China, Japan and the United States. When the Civaux nuclear power plant comes on line sometime in the next 12 months, France will have 56 working nuclear plants, generating 76% of her electricity.
European Union energy officials agreed Tuesday to apply stress tests on plants across the 27-nation bloc and Germany moved to switch off seven aging reactors.
In Spain, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told reporters Wednesday that studies have been commissioned to determine how vulnerable his country's six nuclear plants are to earthquakes or flooding.
It took many countries a generation after the accidents at Chernobyl in then-Soviet Ukraine and Three Mile Island in the United States to get over worries about nuclear safety.
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China announced that it was suspending approvals for planned plants and would launch a comprehensive safety check of facilities.
China has 13 nuclear power plants in use now. China has about two dozen reactors under construction and planed to increase nuclear electricity generation about seven-fold over the next 10 years (7x13=91).
In France, the heads of both houses of parliament ordered a legislative investigation into "the future of the French nuclear industry." An emergency meeting scheduled Wednesday in the lower house of parliament was to include the chiefs of nuclear reactor builder Areva and Electricite de France, the world's biggest operator of nuclear plants.
France was among the few countries to continue developing nuclear power after Chernobyl. It is more dependent on nuclear energy than any other country and its companies market nuclear technology around the world, including to China, Japan and the United States. When the Civaux nuclear power plant comes on line sometime in the next 12 months, France will have 56 working nuclear plants, generating 76% of her electricity.
European Union energy officials agreed Tuesday to apply stress tests on plants across the 27-nation bloc and Germany moved to switch off seven aging reactors.
In Spain, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told reporters Wednesday that studies have been commissioned to determine how vulnerable his country's six nuclear plants are to earthquakes or flooding.
It took many countries a generation after the accidents at Chernobyl in then-Soviet Ukraine and Three Mile Island in the United States to get over worries about nuclear safety.
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Last edited by stomper; 03-16-2011 at 12:19 PM.
#2
03-16-2011, 10:04 AM
Indonesia's Nuclear Energy, said Wednesday that four nuclear reactors are planned and will be built on the island of Bangka, near Sumatra, the heavily populated island where a 2004 earthquake caused the massive tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations.
Philippines - a nuclear plant was completed in Bataan province near Manila during dictator Ferdinand Marcos's time but was never operated due to safety issues. Now, Japan's nuclear crisis has prompted President Benigno Aquino III to prioritize the development of non-nuclear sources of energy, spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.
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Philippines - a nuclear plant was completed in Bataan province near Manila during dictator Ferdinand Marcos's time but was never operated due to safety issues. Now, Japan's nuclear crisis has prompted President Benigno Aquino III to prioritize the development of non-nuclear sources of energy, spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.
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#3
03-16-2011, 10:13 AM
Nuclear waste
Nuclear waste is an enormously difficult political problem which to date no country has solved. It is, in a sense, the Achilles heel of the nuclear industry. Could this issue strike down France's uniquely successful nuclear program? France's politicians and technocrats are in trouble.
If France is unable to solve this issue, says Mandil, then "I do not see how we can continue our nuclear program."
The volume of the ultimate high-level waste is small: the contribution of a family of four using electricity for 20 years is a glass cylinder the size of a cigarette lighter. However, no one knows what to do with it.
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If France is unable to solve this issue, says Mandil, then "I do not see how we can continue our nuclear program."
The volume of the ultimate high-level waste is small: the contribution of a family of four using electricity for 20 years is a glass cylinder the size of a cigarette lighter. However, no one knows what to do with it.
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#4
03-16-2011, 10:20 AM
how many reactors are there and where are they?
read on ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors
The list of nuclear reactors is an annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country.
This list excludes nuclear marine propulsion reactors (Navy), except those at land installations, and excludes reactors that never achieved criticality.
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read on ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors
The list of nuclear reactors is an annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country.
This list excludes nuclear marine propulsion reactors (Navy), except those at land installations, and excludes reactors that never achieved criticality.
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