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Re: 113-ft blade falls off windmill in Fenner Wind Farm (upstate NY); same windmill fell over in 2009 |
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Posted by WillD on Sat Feb 13 09:32:50 2016, in response to Re: 113-ft blade falls off windmill in Fenner Wind Farm (upstate NY); same windmill fell over in 2009, posted by bingbong on Fri Feb 12 14:40:57 2016. I'm not sure quite why you'd set out to make a smaller reactor based on existing designs. Given the high fixed costs for nuclear, going with a smaller plant is not going to save much and your revenue would be greatly reduced. Much of the idea with the push toward small modular reactors is to reduce those costs by introducing assembly line production to the process. New reactor designs promise lower cost and foolproof safety systems. But a 250 to 500 megawatt light water reactor is no safer and not much cheaper than a 1000MW reactor of the same design.And just taking a quick look at the list of reactors on Wikipedia, the average reactor reactor capacity around the world appears to be around 1000MWe. The Soviets exported a number of 250 to 350MW VVERs to various client states, we exported a number of 500MW PWRs, and a few counties with indigenous nuclear programs have a few 500MW plants. But for the most part worldwide reactors are in the gigawatt range. And again that's mostly due to the economics of reactor construction. |
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