Meanwhile, in China:
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Demonstration-HT...
Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
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#42> (Not that there's ever been a spontaneous failure of that kind at an AGR, but current disaster planning tends to emphasize scenarios such as a fully-fuelled 747 flying straight into the plant at full speed -- can't think why.)
This bit made me chuckle
Re: Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
#43One thing I've always wondered is, who cleans this things? Is normal, run of the mill cleaning personnel expected to be careful enough to not accidentally toss something out alignment, or is there some kind of Nuclear Plant Grade Cleaning industry I never heard about?
Re: Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
#44I miss images.
> (Note: there are no photographs; nor did I take a notepad, so I'm writing this from memory. Cameras were verboten -- not because of security, but as an operational precaution. For starters, some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past, triggering a generator trip; for seconds, we had to wear protective clothing -- try explaining to a visitor that their expensive Nikon has been contaminated and needs to be left behind!)
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#45"nothing like this will be built again" ITER / DEMO / PROTO plants planned to eclipse everything previous in scale. And with nuclear fission now classified as green tech by the EU, maybe the political will is finally here ;) https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220109-europe-nuclea...
ITER will generate no power. No liquid-metal neutron-absorber "blanket", no steam piping, no turbines. DEMO / PROTO will, if not cancelled, be absolutely monstrous, but generate no more power than a wee fission plant. Until they destroy themselves with their own neutron flux. (They should build them underground, so they will already be buried when it is time to abandon them.) It is inconceivable that any such project…
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read "The Fountainhead" at age 18 and was marvelled by it. I even quoted bits of Howard Roark's speeches on second-handers. I re-read it at age 25 and, uh, it's a really bad novel built around a couple of awesome "yas queen" kind of put-down rants. I feel the same about Accelerando. At one point I was in a clubbing phase and always took my paperback in my jacket pockets. Then, I never fully read it a second time be…
Accelerando is geek bait. His best work is the Laundry series which he's still working on. Disclaimer: no idea what his opinion of his work is.
The Laundry Files: never has the end of the world been so entertaining.
Re: Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
#48"some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past"
echoes of the Raspberry Pi camera flash reboot story, 13 years apart :)
https://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/photonic-reset-of-the-raspbe...
Re: Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
#49Seeing a massive 500 megawatt turbine in the generator hall of a nuclear powerplant is an incredible experience, dwarfed only by the knowledge that there are 3 more at the facility.
Re: Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
#50Meanwhile, in China: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Demonstration-HT...
210 MW? That’s rather small, no?