{"id":7734,"date":"2017-09-22T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2017-09-22T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:45:42","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-modular-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7734","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – modular nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Do we need modular nuclear power?\u00a0 A survey has come out this week saying most people do not want to live<\/a> next to a modular nuclear power station.\u00a0 The idea of modular nuclear power is that you build lots of small reactors with outputs somewhere in the order of 300-440MWp.\u00a0 There are a number of supposed advantages.\u00a0 By building nuclear reactors en mass then you get economies of scale.\u00a0 Some people (naive in my view) think they could be flown into disaster areas (see recent news for examples) to provide emergency power.\u00a0 Some designs claim to be passive and would require either less staff –\u00a0 or wait for it none at all!\u00a0 The last advantage and why people such as George Monbiot (and I think the British Government) support them and have provided \u00a3250 million for initial research is that they claim they could use up the nuclear waste at Sellafield.<\/p>\n

OK now its time to get real.\u00a0 The problems that nuclear power have are not going to be wiped out by modular nuclear power plants.\u00a0 The same issues of cost and waste still exist. In the link above its reckoned the cost could be as low as 6p\/unit by 2028 with production of 40-70 units.\u00a0 However with the cutting the edge of offshore wind coming in at less than this now much less in ten years time then even with “mass production” nuclear still cannot compete on cost.<\/p>\n

The next problem is where to put them.\u00a0 When the government started looking at new nuclear they did consider new green field sites.\u00a0 The public’s concern arises from the suspicion that these small reactors are going to planted in urban areas.\u00a0 New non-nuclear sites such as old coal fired power stations are under consideration.<\/p>\n

The final problem is that many of the designs, if not most are generation IV designs which are untried and untested.\u00a0 The golden rule of nuclear is cost rise as delays set in.\u00a0 Building small is unlikely to change this.\u00a0 Renewables coupled with cheap energy storage have won the day and the sooner the nuclear dreamers realise this the better.<\/p>\n

PS the mock up picture on the lobbying organisations website does not look that small a building anyway.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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