Nuclear power continues in the world

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Loading fuel into the Finnish EPR:

Fuel loading under way at Finnish EPR

29 March 2021

The loading of fuel assemblies into the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR in Finland began on 27 March, utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has announced. The move follows the receipt of a permit from the country's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) the previous day. The process of loading the fuel assemblies into OL3 is expected to take about one week, TVO said.


Workers at OL3 have already practiced loading fuel assemblies into the reactor's core (Image: TVO)

The fuel for OL3 arrived in Olkiluoto in 2018. A total of 241 fuel assemblies manufactured in Framatome's plants in Germany and France will be transferred from storage and loaded into the reactor vessel to constitute the first core.

To carry out the loading operations, an integrated team of about 40 employees from TVO, Areva and Framatome has been formed. It includes around 15 fuel handlers, personnel specialized in fuel handling operations, and four neutronics engineers in charge of monitoring the core during loading.

The loading of fuel will be followed by a commissioning phase lasting several months during which TVO will conduct a new series of hot functional tests to verify the plant's systems work correctly. The previous hot functional test - carried out without nuclear fuel in the reactor - was completed in 2018.

"The most important test is the hot functional test, in which the reactor and turbine island is tested for use," TVO said. "During testing, dozens of separate tests are performed with different pressure and temperature levels."

These tests must be completed before the unit achieves first criticality and commissioning for commercial operation. TVO requires authorization from STUK before advancing from one commissioning phase to another. TVO was granted an operating license by the Finnish government for OL3 in March 2019.

"Through the fuel loading, Olkiluoto 3 is now a nuclear power plant, and we are a significant step closer to the realization of Finland's greatest single act for the climate," said Marjo Mustonen, senior vice president for electricity production at TVO.

OL3 is scheduled to be connected to the grid in October this year, with regular electricity production due to start in February 2022. According to the commissioning program, the plant will produce 1-3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity with varying power output during the period between grid connection and the start of regular electricity production. Once operating at full capacity, the OL3 plant will produce about 13 TWh of electricity annually and meet about 14% of Finland's electricity demand.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Arti ... innish-EPR

[Obamot]

Your last 'promo' of the month?

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

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LCE 31/03/2021

[izentrop]

We can see that this country, cited by Greenpeace & Co as one of the most virtuous on an ecological level, presents (deliberately) deceptive performances!
In particular, biomass, which constitutes the vast majority of renewable energy, is imported, which, in terms of CO2 emissions, penalizes the producing countries in favor of Denmark.
But the most subtle scam concerns the presentation of the Danish electricity mix which includes 47% wind power and 3% PV: because to ensure the backup of these EnRi, Denmark depends on “dirty” German electricity and electricity. hydropower from Sweden and Norway.
In addition, the headlong rush towards the mirage of the EnRi is illustrated by a project for an artificial island in the North Sea with enormous wind capacity, without backup or storage.
The existence of powerful anti-nuclear associations born in the 70s explains this situation, but it seems that the trend is changing: the possibility for Danish consumers to buy electricity produced by a Swedish company with “ nuclear guarantees ”is concrete proof of this!

Finally, young people are waking up in Denmark https://mailchi.mp/d007f8f8f92f/la-dsin ... fc34d99472

The annual energy report published in 2019 by the Danish Energy Agency1 establishes that 35% of Danish energy consumption is produced from renewable energy sources. The problem is, up to two-thirds of that 35% comes from biomass and bio-fuels, labeled as renewable. By shifting the CO2 emissions linked to the production of biomass to countries producing these fuels, Denmark is preserving its reputation as a country at the forefront of ecology. In the end, only around 10% of the energy consumed by the Danes is produced from genuinely low-carbon sources, including 8% produced by wind power - and this, despite a sustained development of wind power on the last 30 years.

With such an approach, we are therefore very far from the objectives of reducing CO70 emissions by 2% by 2030 and zero emissions by 2050 ...
We let fear and demagoguery interfere with political decisions

What a huge waste, like everywhere else

[Obamot]

A “Danish” site with its address in Paris (Voix du Nucleaire / NGO 168 rue de Grenelle Paris 75007 France)

young people wake up in Denmark https://mailchil.mp/d007f8f8f92f/la-dsi ... fc34d99472

The pro-nuclear lobbyist tells us to death ! And to post us a very clean site with a professional layout, the typical example of cuckolding sites sponsored by the nuclear industry (obviously) ... And you who dive into it headlong (without looking too much). Poor kids, with their faces of “top of the class"Probably the offspring of parents who are members of ultra-cons' parties (still a force-fed and wasted youth)

[izentrop]

At the bottom of words = baseless blah like dab

[Obamot]

Aux low words = baseless blah blah like dab

But wouiiii but wouiiii tells us Môssieur the “French teacher”From the height of his infused conscience and his incompetence:

- who sees Danish sites published only in French and English perhaps?
- and who would have become “anti-nuclear” then? No, the nuclear ideologue is fairer human-natural-disasters / chernobyl-nature-already-regaining-its-rights-t14571.html # p300379
- while European countries are funding scientific research to GET OUT of nuclear power (which they have not done for 70 years.

[moinsdewatt]

Barakah Reactor No.1 goes into commercial operation.

Emirates / nuclear: the first power station in the Arab world launches commercial operations
AFP • 06 / 04 / 2021

"The first megawatt of the first Arab nuclear power plant has entered the national electricity grid," said on Twitter the vice president and prime minister of the Federation, Mohammed ben Rached Al-Maktoum.

"The start of commercial operations at the Barakah plant (...) is a historic milestone for the UAE, which strengthens the sustainability of our entire electricity sector," also tweeted the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and de facto leader of the country, Mohammed ben Zayed Al-Nahyane.
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https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec ... 8a0a07b362

[moinsdewatt]

EDF submits an offer for the construction of six EPRs in India

REUTERS • 23 / 04 / 2021

EDF announced on Friday that it had given Indian nuclear operator NPCIL a binding French technical-commercial offer for the construction of six reactors EPR at the Jaitapur site in western India.

"This major milestone for EDF, its partners and the French nuclear industry makes it possible to start discussions with a view to convergence on a framework agreement binding in the coming months", specifies the French group in a press release.

According to EDF, this project with an installed capacity of 9,6 gigawatts would form "the most powerful plant in the world; it would produce up to 75 terawatts / hour per year and would cover the annual consumption of 70 million Indian households".

"The operation of the 6 EPR units would also lead to the creation of around 2.700 permanent jobs. The project would also generate significant economic benefits for the French nuclear industry over the entire duration of the project (around 15 years), with the creation of tens of thousands of jobs within a hundred companies involved, ”adds the French group.

https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec ... e3abfac377


summary view of the project:


https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/n ... e.N1085469

[izentrop]

Humanitarian, social and environmental disaster, Chernobyl had a major impact on the global nuclear industry, leading to Italy's exit from nuclear power, the momentum of the anti-nuclear movement in Germany, the halting of the construction of new power plants. for a third of a century in the United States and a significant loss of know-how in the United Kingdom, a country at the origin of the development of the industry. And, of course, Chernobyl also destroyed the reputation of the Soviet nuclear industry. However, the Russian Federation, which emerged from the rubble of the USSR in 1991, is giving more and more importance to this energy.

35 years after the tragedy, 20% of Russian electricity production comes from nuclear power, the share of which in the energy mix has grown steadily throughout the 2000s. Russia is the fourth largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, after the United States, France and China. It is also the seventh largest producer of uranium, and manufactures 17% of nuclear fuel. https://theconversation.com/trente-cinq ... ire-159574