Sizewell B was over budget and late although that pales into insignificance compared to Olkiluoto or Flamanville. The latter two are EPR - I believe - whereas Sizewell B is a PWR.Blue Peter wrote:I must admit to being very confused on this. We had plans to build 10 PWRs, and if we had things might have been very different. On the other hand, even building one nuclear reactor seems very difficult at the moment (a Finnish one is well over-due and over-cost). According to Centrica, it's not even worth giving it a go.
This doesn't seem to add up.
Do we have a good figure for the EROEI for nuclear, or do we have two sets of figures which mirrors the above, very high and very low?
Peter.
One of the major problems confronting nuclear is the fact that many of the experienced staff who knew how to build them have retired. Same mistakes will no doubt be made when they could have possibly been avoided...
WRT EROEI on nuclear this is an interesting article