Posted on 10/24/2022 7:31:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Twenty-six of France’s 56 nuclear reactors are offline for maintenance or because of corrosion on piping that cools the reactor cores. Fixing the corrosion is taking longer than expected at several reactors, delaying their restart by as much as six weeks, according to regulatory filings and a French nuclear executive familiar with the matter.
Labor unrest is another obstacle. Strikes at 18 reactors owned by EDF SA, France’s state-controlled power giant, have delayed their restart by several weeks, threatening the government’s plans to have all of them back online by the end of the winter. EDF and union leaders said they reached an agreement Friday on salary increases, ending the strikes.
EDF, the world’s largest owner of nuclear plants, is one of Western Europe’s most important power companies. Its fleet of reactors normally exports large quantities of low-cost nuclear power to neighboring countries, helping stabilize prices across the region.
The situation changed drastically this year, when France swung from being one of Europe’s largest exporters of electricity to a net importer because of the outages at its reactors. The rash of outages has officials worried that France and the broader region might run short of electricity in the winter, when power demand in Europe peaks.
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Le Syndrome de Pepsi.
In this day and age of modern warfare, you have to wonder sometimes if computer hacking by nations states is a lot more sophisticated that we realize .
They have a story for everything they’re doing to destroy the West.
Until very recently, Greta didn’t allow nuclear power to be considered a ‘green’ energy source, so France likely kept deferring maintenance on their reactors, knowing that they would be shut down anyway, in the near future.
Now that Greta has changed her mind and will allow nuclear power, France is finding out that there are BIG PROBLEMS in bringing them back on line, as things like replacing corroded plumbing, in a reactor core, is not a trivial task.
threatening the government’s plans to have all of them back online ******by the end of the winter.******
Greta will change her mind in the spring and say nuclear is bad.
“Greta will change her mind in the spring and say nuclear is bad.”
Very true, she is a woman after all. Best for Europeans to hedge their bets, as they can never be sure what she will allow, and for how long she’ll allow it.
“Labor unrest”?
What, froggies don’t wanna work? Imagine my surprise.
Shutdown is a phased multi-year process and they can’t just stop and turn the switch back to “ ON”…even by govt decree
Germany discovering this, too
“Shutdown is a phased multi-year process and they can’t just stop and turn the switch back to “ ON”…even by govt decree. Germany discovering this, too.”
True, and I doubt Greta informed Germany of this little detail.
More like “we have you over a barrel so we want more money, or you can freeze this winter.”
“And we only want to work 3 weeks a year.”
The Six-P rule in action. Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
If you need high availability but 46% of your equipment is down concurrently for maintenance, that’s a sure sign of either slipshod maintenance or piss-poor planning, or both.
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