Posted on 09/02/2022 8:02:14 PM PDT by BeauBo
France’s state-held utility giant EDF will restart all its nuclear reactors in the country this winter, potentially alleviating the energy crisis in Europe during peak heating season.
Currently, more than half of EDF’s reactors are out of operation either because of maintenance or technical issues.
“EDF has committed to restart all its reactors for this winter,” French Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said at a news conference on energy security on Friday.
EDF operates a total of 56 reactors in France, but 32 of them are currently either undergoing maintenance or experiencing technical issues, the minister added.
Every week starting in October, EDF will restart one reactor, Pannier-Runacher added.
France has been experiencing outages at its nuclear reactors in recent months, which have slashed power generation from nuclear power plants. France’s nuclear power generation accounts for around 70% of its electricity mix, and when its reactors are fully operational it is a net exporter of electricity to other European countries.
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Let’s see if that plan pans out
Welcome back to the future.
#Winning.
France wins.
Does this statement scare anyone?
” EDF operates a total of 56 reactors in France, but 32 of them are currently either undergoing maintenance or experiencing technical issues.”
That means that 57% of Frances Nuclear Reactors are effectively BROKEN. Maintenance is usually measured in months not WEEKS. As for those with “technical issues,” OMG if they try to rush those back into service.
Why? Seems odd. Unless they were all built at the same time and they are the exact same model and now they need maintenance?
Meanwhile, Mexifornia is going to close its last nuclear power plant. Genius.
pssst! bureaucrat! I don’t think the experts and veterans of operating those high tech beasts have just been sitting at home waiting for his call.
One unusual problem they had this year, was a drought, that reduced river levels, so that some reactors did not have enough cooling water to run hot. So they idled more than usual.
France built their fleet with extra capacity, and redundancy for reliability, so they could always be rotating some off the duty cycle, for inspection and routine maintenance.
This Winter though, it is going to be all hands on deck. To help the neighbors through the gas shortage, and rake in revenue selling their electricity at record high prices
Can’t afford to be offline, at these prices…
This is the way.
Entropy partly explains why identical units built at nearly the same time have different trajectories.
Kit happens. Murphy was not wrong.
I have to wonder how many of them will melt down as at least some of them must be shut down for serious reasons.
But then again, it’s the thought that counts...
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Entropy partly explains why identical units built at nearly the same time have different trajectories.
Kit happens. Murphy was not wrong.
Facts are like bad tacos. They come around to get you in the end.
Yes, government ownership of the means of production is the only way keep government bureaucrats from over-extorting an industry.
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Case on point...
Total win for France.
They will also increase “spent fuel rod” recycling.
Over 80% percent of France may have nuclear power soon.
The US should have been the world’s leader in “fuel rod recycling” all along.
France will be exporting a limited amount of electricity in months.
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