Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
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Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#2https://web.archive.org/web/20240923081026/https://www.build...
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Additional reading if you haven't read it before, "Nothing like this will be built again" about Torness: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-l...?
Previously posted several times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#3> As the cost of Hinkley Point has increased, the backers have had to provide more funding. The souring of relations between Britain and China saw CGN stop providing any more money, leaving EDF to fund the shortfall. EDF has called upon the UK government to help out with the escalating cost but it has refused. EDF was fully nationalised in 2023, leaving the French taxpayer to pick up the tab for the cost overruns.
That paragraph might be the high point of the article.
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#4What would be equivalent solar/wind installed power?
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#5What would be equivalent solar/wind installed power?
Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#6Very good to hear about upskilling taking place but also immensely sobering numbers (i.e. 1300 apprentices is seen a big uplift) for a country the size of the UK.
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#7> As the cost of Hinkley Point has increased, the backers have had to provide more funding. The souring of relations between Britain and China saw CGN stop providing any more money, leaving EDF to fund the shortfall. EDF has called upon the UK government to help out with the escalating cost but it has refused. EDF was fully nationalised in 2023, leaving the French taxpayer to pick up the tab for the cost overruns. Th…
Absolutely. Thanks for the highlighting! Edit: It's a two-in-one good news afaiac: China withdrawing funding(/influence) and some sort of accountability applied to mega projects rather than just throwing (and eventually devaluing) more and more money at things.
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#8> As the cost of Hinkley Point has increased, the backers have had to provide more funding. The souring of relations between Britain and China saw CGN stop providing any more money, leaving EDF to fund the shortfall. EDF has called upon the UK government to help out with the escalating cost but it has refused. EDF was fully nationalised in 2023, leaving the French taxpayer to pick up the tab for the cost overruns. Th…
It's about time our national infrastructure benefitted from foreign taxpayer money, considering how often it's been the other way around! Especially with the railways.
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#9> As the cost of Hinkley Point has increased, the backers have had to provide more funding. The souring of relations between Britain and China saw CGN stop providing any more money, leaving EDF to fund the shortfall. EDF has called upon the UK government to help out with the escalating cost but it has refused. EDF was fully nationalised in 2023, leaving the French taxpayer to pick up the tab for the cost overruns. Th…
It's about time our national infrastructure benefitted from foreign taxpayer money, considering how often it's been the other way around! Especially with the railways.
Didn't you put yourself in that situation?
Re: Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
#10What would be equivalent solar/wind installed power?
Enough wind + solar + storage to deliver
> which gives Hinkley Point C a total output of over 3.2GW.
at least 3 GW 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 50 weeks a year (allowing for some step down in output for maintainance, etc) for some 30+ (?) years.