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Nuclear Free

AtheistCrusader

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2. How the heck do you get economies of scale by operating multiple reactors in a region?

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 02:36 AM

Dec 2012

Sharing a small pool of engineers between sites? Sharing a pool of emergency response materials between sites?

I can think of no 'economy of scale' here (aside from building NEW reactors, and building identical reactors, so you get some EOS from the foundry for the pressure vessels or something) that wouldn't be some kind of crazy trade-off on safety.

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Harvey Wasserman - The rust-bucket nuclear reactors start to fall [View all] limpyhobbler Oct 2012 OP

Also note that Dominion has abandoned their "Maine to Main" strategy from the last decade. Throckmorton Nov 2012 #1

How the heck do you get economies of scale by operating multiple reactors in a region? AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #2