Francia, progetto nucleare civile.Earthworks at Penly Andando avanti, presto 2 reattori EPR2, abbastanza per fornire 3,5 milioni di persone elettricità in 10 ettari di terra.

>Welding problems have caused a further six-month delay for France’s next-generation nuclear reactor at Flamanville, the latest setback for the flagship technology the country hopes to sell worldwide, state-owned electricity group Electricite de France SA (EDF) said on Friday.

>The delay is also expected to add 500 million euros (US$529.92 billion) to a project whose total cost is now estimated at around 13 billion euros, blowing past the initial projection of 3.3 billion euros when construction began in 2007.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/12/18/2003790954

Edit: as someone pointed out, this is not Penly, it is however the same company that built Flamanville.

Soon as in at some point after massive budget overruns. No thanks. I’d rather see renewables. Greetings go out to my nuclear loving reality deniers.

What’s fascinating to me is the disproportionate amount of people claiming that nuclear is a terrible, terrible thing to the amount of people talking negatively about intermittent renewables on every post relating to either topic.

Overwhelmingly, people favourable to nuclear aren’t against (intermittent) renewables but just in favour of both co-existing whereas there are many people in favour of just renewables and nothing else.

At the same time, there is no electrical system in the world that succeeded in creating a grid primarily based on intermittent renewables, whereas there are systems which managed to mix both nuclear and (intermittent) renewables to achieve essentially GHG-free and competitive grids such as France or Sweden.

Fossil fuels are still most of the energy used in essentially every country, electricity is ~18% of energy in most countries and a lot of that is not clean. The growth in clean energy and associated improvements in efficiency and usage are to this day vastly insufficient to eliminate fossil fuels fast enough to maintain our common climate goals and wrestle away our common dependence on the small number of producers.

You Frenchies sure did some things quite alright. Not bad.

Soon?
I thought they were behind the time scale.

So in 10 or 15 years? Including welding or without?