Dutch Utility Seeks Partners to Build A Second Dutch Nuclear Reactor.

[NNadir]

Dutch utility company Delta has found a potential partner for new nuclear build in Electricité de France (EdF). The two firms today agreed to collaborate towards a new nuclear power plant...

...Delta owns 50% of the existing 485 MWe single unit pressurised water reactor at Borssele, the only operating nuclear power station in the Netherlands, through operating company EPZ. In June 2009, Delta embarked on the first step towards building a second plant at the site when it submitted a start-up memorandum to the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. Just over a year later EPZ's other owner, Energy Resources Holding (ERH), submitted a separate start-up memorandum for a new plant also at Borssele.

Political support towards nuclear new build in the Netherlands appears to be strengthening, having swung slowly from a 1994 parliamentary decision to phase out the plant by 2003, through postponement of the closure date to the 2005 abandonment of the closure plans with the plant now scheduled to operate until 2034. The current Dutch coalition government has recently affirmed its willingness to consider nuclear new build. In the official government statement on taking office on 26 October, incoming prime minister Mark Rutte noted that the security of energy supply would remain a policy spearhead, along with efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions in line with European targets. "In this same spirit, the government will be open to issuing permits for new nuclear power plants," he said.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-Delta_and_EDF_could_join_for_new_build-0411107.html">Delta and EDF could join for new build.

The Netherlands, of course, faces the most extreme risk from rising seas from climate change.

Have a nice day.

[GliderGuider]

1. An unrec?

somebody is trying to hide the facts... :hi:

[NNadir]

2. Never underestimate the power of denial. Prehaps if someone sends 5000 reprints

at the rate of 5 per day of Mark V. Jacobson's papers proving that what has already happened is impossible and that what has not happened is inevitable, the Dutch Government will announce a change of mind.

It is ironic of course, that industrial wind power was born in Holland, not that wind power will do a damn thing for them now when the dikes are breached.

[joshcryer]

3. These fucking plants still cost too much and take too long to build.

:(

[NNadir]

4. Compared to what?

[joshcryer]

6. Not compared to anything. Given the timelines we are facing to avoid catastrophic climate change...

...there's nothing modern nuclear can do to avert it. Simple math. :/

[NNadir]

7. France phased out coal in 20 years.

The United States built 100 of them in about 20 years, and were it not for stupid people, could have phased out coal by now for sure.

The two reactors China brought on line this year produce more energy than all the world's solar PV systems combined.

Nuclear will not stop climate change but it is the best tool we have for slowing it.

Period.

If you would like to demonstrate a form of energy that went from a laboratory curiously to becoming the world's largest climate change gas free form of primary energy in just 3 decades, I'd love to hear about it.

[joshcryer]

8. Yeah, but you build out a couple of thousands of these things...

...you then start hitting in to peak urainum territory.

MSR please.

[NNadir]

10. The uranium already mined and sitting in the United States is sufficient to supply world energy...

...demand for about a century if converted to plutonium at 500 exajoules per year.

That means, no oil, no gas, no coal, nothing but nuclear.

The thorium reserves are considerably larger, and that is mined thorium.

Arguably the world's uranium supply - but not the thorium supply is essentially infinite, given that because of its extremely high energy density, it is theoretically practical to recover uranium from seawater using aldoxime resins.

I generally would like to mimize mining, which is why I support nuclear energy.

I like the MSR and I am very fond of fluid phase reactors in general, but as I never tire of pointing out, it is not essential but is merely desirable.

[jpak]

9. France ran out of coal and uranium - and imports uranium from it's former African colonies

which do not benefit from AREVA's dictatorial mining fiefdoms

nope

[kristopher]

5. .

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