Posted on 03/16/2021 3:53:42 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
GE Steam Power announced today that it has designed and manufactured the largest-ever (75-inch) last-stage blade for its Arabelle low-pressure rotor. The blade will enable the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England to produce 3.2 GWe of CO2 free power, GE said. Once completed, this Arabelle steam turbine will be the most powerful nuclear steam turbine in operation. It was tested at GE's factory in Belfort, France.
"Hinkley Point C is key to the UK’s energy strategy to reduce the power industry emissions," said Frédéric Wiscart, senior executive of projects at GE Steam Power. "Once completed, it will deliver 3.2 GWe of dependable, CO2 free electricity to the grid for the next 60 years."
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Somebody has looked int to it, or this plant would be another wind farm.
If nothing else, they may have looked across the Channel to see how the French generate their power?
It is a fools errand to chase “low emissions”.
We live in a time of madness.
60 years?
I’ll bet the green looks will make sure it never makes a single kWh.
Meanwhile idiot Germans and Americans are eliminating nuclear. The Texas incident will be the new normal. Greta and AOC are ecstatic.
Did not know the Brits were building nukes.
Well done, boys.
The French are number one in percentage drawn from nuclear power. They are on point with respect to electric generation and food.
I tend to think the opposite. It showed how worthless windmills can be and that's why we haven't heard peep from them or Gorehead.
The current US nuclear power plants are too old and too costly. US nuclear plant rests on smr’s or Small Modular Reactors. The first ones won’t be available until later this decade
Not sure, but it seems they are talking about a turbine blade that would mostly likely sit inside the nuke facility, not outside.
Nuclear power is CO2 free?
Who knew!
CO2 free. Like carbon neutral. 🐎💩
The French are getting 75% of their power from nuclear.
They also operate their plants differently. None of their plants operate at 100% capacity, maybe more like 75%. This is for a good reason - if a plant experiences an outage, whether planned (maintenance, refueling), or unplanned (happens very rarely), all the other plants take up the slack. They already have “spinning reserve” as part of their normal operation.
They also do their fuel cycle much differently than here in the United States. All spent fuel is reprocessed. Fission fractions are chemically stabilized by vitrification and sequestered in a geologically stable formation, and any unused fissile goes into new fuel rods. I have had professional experience with the former on the DOE West Valley Demonstration Project. Much of the French technology was used.
They also use a well proven PWR design based on a Westinghouse design.
France made the strategic decision to go with nuclear in order to be less dependent on Middle East petroleum, the supply being subject to the region’s political volatility. You can knock the French, but they did this right.
What does the ‘e’ in ‘3.2 GWe’ stand for?
I’m assuming the turbine blade is turned by steam from a nuke heated boiler. So it is enclosed within a closed system.
Biden’s energy plan is big wind, sleazy solar, and curbing natural gas.
We’re in for some seriously high utility bills down the road.
Gigawatts electrical output. 1 gigawatts equals 1 billion watts.
Ever driven thru much of rural France and Germany?
France is much more picturesque without the windmills.
Germany has windmills littered all over the countryside.
Is the same as saying nuclear power is glutin free?
—”-CO2 free power-
Is the same as saying nuclear power is glutin free?”
YES!
Same thing, only different.
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