Comments on: Six years after Fukushima, much of Japan has lost faith in nuclear power https://energytransition.org/2017/06/six-years-after-fukushima-much-of-japan-has-lost-faith-in-nuclear-power/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2017/06/six-years-after-fukushima-much-of-japan-has-lost-faith-in-nuclear-power/#comment-5601 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:45:32 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15169#comment-5601 The European ‘post-Fukushima stresstest’ never happened

Announced with big words and celebrated by all European atom nations the post-Fukushima stresstest actually never happened in France.
ALL 20 atom reactors of the modern 1300 MW class (the predecessor of the EPR) are not earthquake-prove says EdF, they only found out recently.
The cooling system of the emergency generators won’t survive a strong earth quake.

The atom safety authority ASN classified this as an incident class 2 on the INES scale.

https://www.asn.fr/Informer/Actualites/Groupes-electrogenes-de-secours-a-moteur-diesel-incident-de-niveau-2

Machine translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.asn.fr%2FInformer%2FActualites%2FGroupes-electrogenes-de-secours-a-moteur-diesel-incident-de-niveau-2&edit-text=

Since there would be a major and long lasting black out all over France if taken these reactors were taken off-grid they keep them operating.

A ‘generic fault’ EdF is calling their power plant design, here the press statement:

https://www.edf.fr/sites/default/files/contrib/groupe-edf/espaces-dedies/espace-medias/cp/2017/note_information_ess_generique_niveau2_palier1300_20170620_vf.pdf

Another press report:

https://www.zonebourse.com/ELECTRICITE-DE-FRANCE-4998/actualite/Electricite-de-France-EDF-alerte-l-ASN-sur-huit-centrales-nucleaires-travaux-en-cours-24625225/

………

Bon vacance.

]]> By: James Wimberley https://energytransition.org/2017/06/six-years-after-fukushima-much-of-japan-has-lost-faith-in-nuclear-power/#comment-5596 Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:27:50 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15169#comment-5596 The flip side of the nuclear fiasco is that Japan is IIRC the only OECD country expanding its fossil fuel burn for electricity. This is largely because of the obsolete design of the electricity market, controlled by reactionary regional silo monopolies. Japan does not even have a synchronised national grid – Europe’s covers most of the EU. The response of the Japanese utilities to the nuclear shutdown is “if we can’t have nuclear, we must have coal”. There is talk of fundamental market reform, but it doesn’t happen. The situation is humiliating to Japan. Its electricity market structure is now way behind India’s, which has allowed the terrific boom in solar – coming from projects launched in a competitive market by hundreds of different generating developers. Only market reform will unleash Japan’s potential for renewables.

]]> By: The unknown climate risks for renewable energy projects - FueladdictsFueladdicts https://energytransition.org/2017/06/six-years-after-fukushima-much-of-japan-has-lost-faith-in-nuclear-power/#comment-5593 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:48:48 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15169#comment-5593 […] like every other form of power, renewable energy can be vulnerable to natural disasters (although considering the alternatives, the fallout is less dangerous). But as climate change makes storms more violent, it’s worth […]

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