Comment: The UN supports Nuke Power as being CO2 free, REALLY, they are wrong! Just say NO to France's Nuke Power and all nuke power! Nuke power is not CO2 free, building the Nuke Plant is full of CO2 (trucks, the power contractors are using), uranium mining and milling, trucking the yellowcake to a uranium processing plant, ETC, not CO2 free. In addition, uranium mining has never been done safely anywhere in the world! Just say no to France nuke power, wake up Virginia and Maryland, we do not want nuke power! Oh, yea, I listed some good comments from the article (names not included)!
Henna Aaltonen for The International Herald Tribune
The Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland is facing more delays.
September 2, 2009, 8:04 am
By James Kanter
Areva, a French nuclear construction company, said this week that its project to build the world’s most powerful reactor remained mired in delays and was over-budget by 2.3 billion euros, or about $3.3 billion.
The price tag of the plant in Olkiluoto, Finland — the first of a fleet of so-called evolutionary power reactors that Areva foresees building in coming years — was about $4.3 billion in 2003 and costs have steadily increased.
The reactor was meant to have gone online early this summer but Areva no longer is committing to any dates for its completion. Patrice Lambert de Diesbach, an energy analyst with CM-CIC Securities in Paris, said the latest developments were “bad news” for Areva and “should be sanctioned by the market.”
The problems faced by Areva are important a time when the nuclear power industry is promising to build safer and more reliable reactors than during the last building boom in the 1960s and early 1970s. Interest in the sector is high again as governments seek sources of electricity that, like nuclear fission, emit little or no carbon dioxide and that cut down on reliance on fossil fuels like coal.
Areva has blamed the Finnish utility company, Teollisuuden Voima, which ordered the reactor, for the delays.
But the Finnish safety authority has said that Areva outsourced a number of aspects of the construction to unqualified subcontractors, making it responsible for a number of the problems.
Whatever the reasons, a key question raised by the project is whether the industry can build enough power plants on time – and on budget – to make a significant contribution to lowering greenhouse gases within the time periods that have been recommended by United Nations scientists and agreed by governments.
So far there are few signs of a breakthrough in Finland.
Areva said this week that it would not begin work on the final stages of the reactor until the Finnish utility agreed to a new set of proposals and modifications.
Comments:
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2. September 2, 2009, 9:55 am
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When all the dust settles and we aren’t arguing about environmental issues, nuclear energy is still a big messy business even after all these years and with France’s supposed “experience”.
The bottom line is, nukes are a really hard way to make energy.
— Mark
3. September 2, 2009
10:01 am
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I think the NRC would be completely irresponsible if it gave any further consideration to the application for a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland if the current contractors are involved. There appear to be serious safety issues involved in this fiasco.
— Chris
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/more-delays-at-finnish-nuclear-plant/
Henna Aaltonen for The International Herald Tribune
The Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland is facing more delays.
September 2, 2009, 8:04 am
By James Kanter
Areva, a French nuclear construction company, said this week that its project to build the world’s most powerful reactor remained mired in delays and was over-budget by 2.3 billion euros, or about $3.3 billion.
The price tag of the plant in Olkiluoto, Finland — the first of a fleet of so-called evolutionary power reactors that Areva foresees building in coming years — was about $4.3 billion in 2003 and costs have steadily increased.
The reactor was meant to have gone online early this summer but Areva no longer is committing to any dates for its completion. Patrice Lambert de Diesbach, an energy analyst with CM-CIC Securities in Paris, said the latest developments were “bad news” for Areva and “should be sanctioned by the market.”
The problems faced by Areva are important a time when the nuclear power industry is promising to build safer and more reliable reactors than during the last building boom in the 1960s and early 1970s. Interest in the sector is high again as governments seek sources of electricity that, like nuclear fission, emit little or no carbon dioxide and that cut down on reliance on fossil fuels like coal.
Areva has blamed the Finnish utility company, Teollisuuden Voima, which ordered the reactor, for the delays.
But the Finnish safety authority has said that Areva outsourced a number of aspects of the construction to unqualified subcontractors, making it responsible for a number of the problems.
Whatever the reasons, a key question raised by the project is whether the industry can build enough power plants on time – and on budget – to make a significant contribution to lowering greenhouse gases within the time periods that have been recommended by United Nations scientists and agreed by governments.
So far there are few signs of a breakthrough in Finland.
Areva said this week that it would not begin work on the final stages of the reactor until the Finnish utility agreed to a new set of proposals and modifications.
Comments:
Link
2. September 2, 2009, 9:55 am
Link
When all the dust settles and we aren’t arguing about environmental issues, nuclear energy is still a big messy business even after all these years and with France’s supposed “experience”.
The bottom line is, nukes are a really hard way to make energy.
— Mark
3. September 2, 2009
10:01 am
Link
I think the NRC would be completely irresponsible if it gave any further consideration to the application for a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland if the current contractors are involved. There appear to be serious safety issues involved in this fiasco.
— Chris
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/more-delays-at-finnish-nuclear-plant/
