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Obama plan to de-fund Savannah River plutonium conversion plant draws fire
Rerun:
Both the plants I was at were big plants in good areas. Fermi was rated at about 1200 MWe and both SQN Units were about 1200 Mwe. Pretty certain Fermi is rated higher now. The plants being shutdown are about half that and most importantly are Merchant Plants ie they have to have organizations bid on their power. We used to have a thumb rule. About half or so of your MW is simply to pay bills. That was in a regulated environment. Units shutting down are in non regulated environments or have a glut of power from other sources. Plus they tend to be single units and small.
Because of regulatory structure TVA will never have to shut down a Nuke. No one can import power inside the "fence" Thus WBN 2 will never make a dime. It cost too much. Fermi is in a great area, the biggest power producer in a small company right in the middle of east and west.
The bigger the better as they can absorb the extra cost in an increasingly unfriendly environment. Gas is killing small nukes.
GLW:
--- Quote from: Rerun on Feb 29, 2016, 10:01 ---Both the plants I was at were big plants in good areas......
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and then,....
corporate bean counters expect every site to be self sufficient plus, no charity cases,...
and then,...
future liabilities due to knee jerk regs (Fukushima - FLEX, Yucca - SECY 11 0029, et al) are unknowns but, are to be expected, and then, those regs cut into the slim margins of the large sites and make the small sites even more untenable,...
and then,...
resistance in too many markets to allow nukes to earn ZECs or RECs,...
and then,...
as nukes shrink in their percentage of the baseload, the services companies (e.g. fuel manufacturers) see a shrinking business market and eventually it will not make sense to be a nuke fuel fabricator,...
and then,...
as the "smart grid" gains in percentage of the distribution, the baseload concept of the "dumb grid" loses it's percentage and becomes a dinosaur concept,...
and then,...
I could go on, but that should give you enough to start your own research,... 8)
Rerun:
Exactly but in truth FLEX and stuff hasn't cost all that much. I agree it's stupid. As an example SQN had 2 or 3 BIG fire pumps they could simply dip the suction into the river. This was in addition to the electric and diesel pumps required by the license. So why exactly should they have to buy into FLEX equipment? Because those pumps were onsite and couldn't be relied upon.
On the other hand TVA Flooding procedures would not have worked yet they protested...
SloGlo:
--- Quote from: Rerun on Feb 28, 2016, 09:32 ---Nope more probably close to 400 million. The net for a big reactor is about a million a day
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sew, aye yam off buy <10% on my blind estimate against yore un-posted numbers... eye can handle that error. ;)
Rerun:
Yepper!!!
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