Posted on 07/01/2024 6:52:07 AM PDT by Cronos
Candu Energy, an AtkinsRéalis company, has signed a framework agreement to help Poland install six small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) as an alternative to coal-fired power stations. Canada-headquarted AtkinsRéalis, formerly known as SNC-Lavalin, said it has also teamed up with Canadian contractor Aecon, and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy the Polish fleet of GEH’s BWRX-300 reactors.
Their agreements are with Polish energy developer Orlen-Synthos Green Energy (OSGE).
If OSGE proceeds with the SMR plan, AtkinsRéalis could provide front-end engineering and consulting to install them at six proposed sites in Poland.
Already happening in Canada
In Canada, AtkinsRéalis, Aecon, and GEH are building the first grid-scale SMR at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site, set to come online by 2029.
AtkinsRéalis is also working with GEH to complete the standard plant design for the BWRX-300 SMR.
Joe St. Julian, president of AtkinsRéalis’ nuclear business, said: “With global electricity demand tripling by 2050, we see there being a market for 1,000 new nuclear reactors to be built.
“Alongside large reactors, SMRs will make up a portion of those new builds to provide the quantum of extra power needed.
“We will draw on our expertise from the ongoing successful deployment of the BWRX-300 SMR in Canada at Darlington to repeat the outcome for Poland.”
Poland getting ready
OSGE is a joint venture between energy company Orlen and Synthos Green Energy, a Polish industrial group with rights to deploy BWRX-300 SMRs in Poland.
AtkinsRéalis said OSGE is already working with Ontario Power Generation to scale up their SMR expertise, and that Polish energy regulators are consulting with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to prepare the nuclear regulatory and licensing framework.
“We are positioning ourselves as the partner of choice for utilities worldwide on deploying nuclear power technology,” said AtkinsRéalis president and chief executive Ian L. Edwards.
“As Poland undertakes a visionary modernization of its power grid, moving away from coal and toward nuclear power via both large and small reactors, we’re thrilled to offer our expertise to provide Poland with clean, reliable, and safe electricity for generations.”
Coming to a neighborhood near you, never.
Renewables generated 26% of Poland’s electricity in 2023, up from 19.3% the previous year, new data show. However, coal continues to produce most of the country’s electricity. Poland generated a total of 39.42 TWh from renewables last year. Of this, the largest source was onshore wind, accounting for 22.12 TWh, or 14.6% of all electricity generation.
That was followed by solar (13.22 TWh, 8.7%), biomass (2.12 TWh, 1.4%) and hydropower (1.81TWh, 1.3%).
Better to get more nuclear energy
“Coming to a neighborhood near you, never.”
Gates and Buffet want to build one in Wyoming.
Smart move by Poland. If the Germans were smart they would build a whole bunch of nuclear reactors.
“GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy”
“SMR nuclear projects...as low as $3,000 per kW...300-MW project might cost $900 million, as opposed to conventional, massive new nuclear projects, such as Vogtle or Sizewell C in the UK, costing $30 billion or a ballpark estimate of $9,000 per kW.”
Candu is a very cute name. I hope it is 100% apt.
I want them to!
Smart
BY then their grid will have already failed several times, but the dirt worshipers will still impede efforts to put them on-line.
How odd
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Darlington Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Clarington, Ontario. It is a large nuclear facility comprising ***four CANDU nuclear reactors*** with a total output of 3,512 MWe when all units are online, providing about 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity needs.
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No mention of any SMR in place or operation.
SMR = Unicorn farts?
If they can be made safe, reliable and easily maintained, mini reactors are an outstanding idea. Every city and neighborhood could have access to nearly endless cheap, clean power. Odd that so many greenies are dead-set against all forms of nuclear energy.
from wiki
The CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power.[1] The acronym refers to its deuterium oxide (heavy water) moderator and its use of (originally, natural) uranium fuel. CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, Canadian General Electric, and other companies.
Should we build Yucca mountain? Store it for the world for a price.
Westinghouse has one in the works. Both GE and Westinghouse have the decades of experience with the NRC to get past the hurdles required for licensing.
The Gates project ... who knows.
Did you look at the dates for Darlington Station? SMRs were not in vogue 40 years ago. Planning, design and manufacturing probably started five years before construction started, so you are talking the first planning activities in 1977.
Construction began
Unit 1: April 1, 1982
Unit 2: September 1, 1981
Unit 3: September 1, 1984
Unit 4: July 1, 1985
Commission date
Unit 1: November 14, 1992
Unit 2: October 9, 1990
Unit 3: February 14, 1993
Unit 4: June 14, 1993
“Candu is a very cute name. I hope it is 100% apt.”
CAN = Canadian
D= deuterium
U= uranium
Canadian deuterium natural uranium reactor. Is what it literally means.
BWRX is not a CANDU format reactor it’s a scaled down AWBR of GE design. It’s a boiling light water reactor one third the size of the AWBR with natural cooling and 72 hour walk away safe design. It uses enriched uranium fuels not the natural uranium a CANDU can use. So it’s fuel cost is equal to a PWR reactor which is twice that of a CANDU format reactor. In theory GE says they can build a BWRX in under 60 months and for $3000 kw capex the Koreans built their last CANDU 900 three times the size of this SMR in under 60 months and for $2800 capex. China did the same thing under 60 and under 2800 closer to 2500 buy China has cheap...cheap labor the bought the parts from Canada though.
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