The closure of Fessenheim, an ecological fault

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by sicetaitsimple » 01/07/20, 21:34

The photo is from 19/01/2012, I forgot to specify it.
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by GuyGadebois » 01/07/20, 21:47

sicetaitsimple wrote:The photo is from 19/01/2012, I forgot to specify it.

It is therefore very topical. Thanks again. : Mrgreen:
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by sicetaitsimple » 01/07/20, 22:02

GuyGadebois wrote:
sicetaitsimple wrote:The photo is from 19/01/2012, I forgot to specify it.

It is therefore very topical. Thanks again. : Mrgreen:


Yes, this is the news of 30/06/2020 .... The result of "kisses" in January 2012.
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by GuyGadebois » 01/07/20, 22:03

What a kiss?
In short, it was (more than) time to close this dangerous wreck:
2004 - 2014: The incidents multiply

From the beginning of the 2000s, anti-nuclear associations were concerned about the aging of the power plant and its position in the seismic zone.

Between 2004 and 2014, 31 incidents took place at the Fessenheim plant, according to Rue89. A document from the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), sent to a German environmental deputy, reports seventeen anomalies found on the second reactor of the plant, and thirteen on the first.

In 2007, ASN denounced, in a report on the state of the power plants, a “lack of rigor” on the part of EDF in the operation of Fessenheim.

In April 2014, reactor 1 was shut down for several weeks due to a leak in a water supply pipe. A few hours later, the second reactor was also shut down after the unexpected closure of a steam valve.

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by sicetaitsimple » 01/07/20, 22:23

GuyGadebois wrote:What a kiss?


A kiss to go scratch a few voices in the second round ....
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by izentrop » 04/07/20, 07:35

Some brave people face a climate crime in general indifference. https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/ ... _3244.html
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izentrop wrote:Some brave people face a climate crime in general indifference


No no no they defend their purchasing power from nuclear power therefore their power to pollute ...
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izentrop wrote:Some brave people face a climate crime in general indifference.

Some irresponsible idiots, I would have said ... : Mrgreen:
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by izentrop » 05/07/20, 02:30

It is on that 40 realistic against an immense majority of profiteers who want the butter, the money of the butter and ... do not make the weight.
Continue to burn wood to give you a good conscience. The alibi of sustainable resources for organized looting ...

This is not the subject, but the paradox is enormous. The fait accompli will soon be in England, barely later with us.

As it is a private group it may not appear
Faced with the depletion of fossil resources and the disasters announced due to global warming, individuals and businesses are turning more and more to wood energy.
Thus, electricity producers convert their fossil-fired thermal power plants inexpensively into biomass plants.

Electricity in the United Kingdom is mainly extracted using gas-fired power plants, used in particular as the back up of renewable installations in increasing numbers.
However, British gas reserves are not expected to last more than 3 to 4 years at the rate of current consumption, which will quickly put the country in a situation of dependence on the import of this resource.

In order to reduce GHG emissions and compensate for the drop in the volume of available gas, the United Kingdom has chosen to turn to wood energy.
The country's largest power plant, Drax, in North Yorkshire, which originally used coal, has been gradually converting its units to biomass since 2012. Drax announces 70% of its electricity produced from wood and emissions from CO2 up to 122 kg / Mwh, to be compared very favorably to the 1018 kg of Mwh produced from coal, and in agreement with the objectives of the Ministry of the Environment.
As a logical consequence of these conversions, the demand for biomass explodes. The amount of fuelwood burned in these power plants went from 0,2 million tonnes in 2010 to 3,4 million tonnes in 2014! The production of pellets on the territory having remained more or less at the level of 2010, the country must resort to massive imports. The United Kingdom is rapidly becoming the world's leading importer of wood pellets, at 5,5 million tonnes per year, or 33% of the market.
The wood supplier countries are mainly the United States (58%, 5 million tonnes), Canada (22%, 800 tonnes) and Latvia (000%).
In the USA, exports increased by 40% between 2013 and 2014. The biomass supplier states are Mississpi and Louisiana, which see 4 million hectares, or 25% of their forests, thus made available for the production of British electricity.
To ensure its supply, Drax built two wood pellet factories in Louisiana and acquired a third in the state of Mississippi, installing at the same time in Baton Rouge the port structures necessary for export.
David Mc Kay, author of the famous book "Sustainable energy, not just wind", is in 2012 advisor to the Ministry of the Environment. In 2014, he created the BeaC, a scientific calculator intended to study carbon emissions from the use of biomass from the United States.
It is a new method for assessing emissions, taking into account factors hitherto ignored by previous methods, namely changes in carbon storage in logged forests.
The use of wood energy was previously considered to be carbon neutral, but this assumption is questioned at the exit, in 2014, of the report "Life cycle impact or Biommas electricity in 2020", which is taken up by various protection organizations of the environment.
Observations and concerns then arise.
The BeaC report established 29 scenarios of CO2 emissions, the quantified conclusions of which differ according to the type of biomass used.
7% of Drax's supply comes from sawmill residues and scrap wood, this does not have negative consequences in terms of GHG emissions.

30% are branches, treetops and various inferior woods. In this case, the emissions are higher than those of gas, at 536kg / MWh.

But it can also be "thinning", that is to say the cutting down of whole trees, the emissions reaching peaks in this call. The quantity of biomass extracted is in fact greater than its capacity to renew and capture carbon.
Timothy Searching of Princeton University has shown that for a 20-year renewal period between two harvests, emissions are 80% higher than those of coal (1879 kg / Wh). It is necessary to wait for a renewal period of 100 years for the emissions to return to lower levels than those of coal (902 kg / MWh). Remember that the limit set by DECC, the British environment ministry, is 285 kg / MWh!

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http://ww2.rspb.org.uk/Images/biomass_r ... 326672.pdf
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/Biomass.pdf
https://www.carbonbrief.org/investigati ... ate-change
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... 270416.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... y_2014.pdf
https://www.drax.com/
https://www.rncan.gc.ca/forets/industrie/demandes/13737
https://www.carbonbrief.org/uk-now-burn ... et-imports
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20912
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Re: The closure of Fessenheim, an ecological fault




by Paul72 » 05/07/20, 10:52

Biomass is only ecological if it is local and for individual or collective heating (with efficient appliances and isolated dwellings).
Restoring the hedgerow increases the resource and firewood. Biomass power plants are bullshit !!!

As for Fessenheim, it is not necessarily the most serious. Force yourself to shut down one in three reactors everywhere to reach 50% nuke in 2035 ... No comment
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