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Delay, cost increase announced for U.K. nuclear project
Perspex screens and reduced seating capacity in the Hinkley Point canteens help protect the workforce during breaks, EDF Energy said. Photo: EDF Energy
The unfortunate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nuclear new-build projects haven’t stopped with Vogtle: EDF Energy this morning reported that the expected startup date for Unit 1 at its Hinkley Point C site is being pushed from late 2025 to June 2026.
In addition, the project’s completion costs are now estimated to be in the range of £22 billion to £23 billion (about $30.2 billion to $31.5 billion), some £500 million (about $686 million) more than the 2019 estimate, EDF said, adding the caveat that these revisions assume an ability to begin a return to normal site conditions by the second quarter of 2021.
M. Dion, G. Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 179 | Number 2 | February 2015 | Pages 186-198
Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-90
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method is proposed to evaluate implicit sensitivity coefficients for several types of reactor lattices, including pressurized water reactors and CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) reactors, with different resonant and light isotope contents. The implicit sensitivity of the multiplication factor, resulting from a variation of an isotope density through the self-shielded cross sections, is computed for different cases. The precision of the method, the importance of the implicit coefficients with respect to the total sensitivity, and the contributions of all the isotopes are discussed and compared for the different systems. We also show how to compute the sensitivity coefficients in the unresolved energy groups, where the details of the resonances are not known. An equivalent dilution model is used for the self-shielding calculations. Complete transport calculations, using a collision probability method, are also used to compute reference values for the implicit sensitivities.
