[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'I')t's the future

[theluckycountry]

How France’s nuclear dream became a financial nightmare
By Jean-Luc Porquet | 22 August 2025

Here an aussie points to the folly of nuclear power, something a minority in government want to see built.
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')Decades of neglect, spiralling costs and political denial have turned France’s once-vaunted nuclear program into a cautionary tale, writes Jean-Luc Porquet (translated by Dr Evan Jones).

Translator’s note: The French nuclear power sector is in deep trouble technically and financially. Formally a cheap source of power, embedded costs have not been counted. There has been a dramatic loss of skills over the decades, inhibiting effective maintenance of existing plants and turning the construction of France’s then most powerful reactor at Flamanville on the Normandy coast into a nightmare. Technological and resource challenges have escalated, including water availability in the face of climate change. The plan to bury accumulated highly radioactive waste at Bure, 250 kilometres east of Paris, remains at an impasse. And the political class lives in denial.

The 58 French nuclear reactors built at an accelerated pace between 1977 and 1996 were due to tranquilly finish their life after 30 years of good and faithful service. And the new super-powerful EPRs [European Pressurised Reactors], designed and built by Éléctricité de France, were to effect a seamless transition. It was estimated that, by 2012, the first French EPR would be put into operation at Flamanville.

Kapow! Not only has its cost, initially fixed at €3.3 billion [AU$5.9 billion], multiplied by six (!), but its construction site has proved a nightmare. The EPR was connected to the grid only in 2024. And it has hardly run since (it is currently in shutdown).

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', ' ')Much of what the world built over the last half century was based on cheap oil and coal, cheap natural gas.

[theluckycountry]

America has decommissioned a few of it's old nuclear plants now and a couple have even been cleaned up, the structures removed. Where the hell they took the old reactor cores is anyone's guess, perhaps they left them onsite with all the spent fuel?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')onnecticut Yankee, Maine Yankee, and Yankee Rowe are the 3 Yankee Companies. These 3 independent, single-asset companies operated nuclear power plants that were permanently shut down in the 1990's for economic reasons. All three nuclear power plants were fully decommissioned and the sites environmentally restored in accordance with federal and state regulations by 2007. Their primary function now is to safely and securely store spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and Greater than Class C waste (GTCC waste) produced during plant operations until the federal government fulfills its obligation to remove this material from the three sites.

[theluckycountry]

Holtec Completes Oyster Creek Fuel Transfer, 2021


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')oltec International this week said it had completed the transfer of irradiated fuel at the retired Oyster Creek nuclear power plant to dry storage, putting the decommissioning project on pace to become the fastest on record for the United States

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'H')oltec Completes Oyster Creek Fuel Transfer, 2021

[theluckycountry]

The talk has all died down now. Still no wizzbang new nuclear reactors in the pipe though. They are chattering about restoring 3 mile island. That's probably doable. After they rebuild the Baltimore bridge...

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')he talk has all died down now.

[theluckycountry]

I'll keep posting up relevant information on the state of the nuclear power industry, my troll will continue posting picture of bananas and whatnot

People living in these regions need to take this seriously unless they want to risk living in Fukushima Prefecture some day. These reactor cores and fuel rods stored onsite are no different to the stuff that spewed out of those Japanese reactors and leaked into the ground water. Here though the Great Lakes system is in danger. Why the hell they didn't just just ship all this stuff down to one of the old nuclear test sites in the desert is the real question.

Surely the Federal government could have sprung for that! Why not? Because it's SUPER dangerous and would have to pass through many communities along the way. And because they don't give a shit basically. Government by the people for the people? Just another myth like so many others.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'I')'ll keep posting up relevant information on the state of the nuclear power industry, my troll will continue posting picture of bananas and whatnot

[theluckycountry]

SMR developer Nano Nuclear announced a partnership with South Korean industrial company DS Dansuk to pursue the deployment of Nano’s Kronos throughout Asia... focused on developing clean energy solutions, Blah Blah Blah. I thought Uranium came out of mines dig with vast fleets of Diesel powered machines? But this is all just media hype at this stage anyway, all posturing by corporations dependent on share prices going up. Until I see a dozen actually in service I won't even believe it. Oh it's possible, nearly anything is possible, at a price! But as the world slowly goes dark due to the collapse of it's aging grids I can't see how multi-million dollar nuclear plants will help.

Take a super rich little nation like Singapore, a transport and oil processing hub. It gets 95% of it's electricity from imported natural gas, a no brainer really considering the energy shipping traffic. Perhaps it even comes as a byproduct of it's refining? They could easily afford such reactors, but are they going to make the switch? The Island is tiny, wherever they sited them they would be surrounded by people? The government there is Very conservative and I doubt they'd bother with the cheap gas still flowing. They might make sense for Greenland...


https://nanonuclearenergy.com/nano-nucl ... uth-korea/

[theluckycountry]

HGP and Shaw Group Partner to Build America's Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus
Well that's a word salad
What are they proposing?



The plant's that these run on basically
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')size=150]...If[/size] awarded, the project would represent an early step toward rebuilding America’s nuclear fabrication industrial base

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')his is all part of the "Lights Out" aspect of PeakOil.