Already in the nineties, both plants have featured strongly in criticisms of the German nuclear industry, especially for information politics.
Because information politics has not really been a strong side for Vattenfall at Forsmark either...
currently the second generation of operators are taking over, people who don't know the nifty details and special troubles of the plants.
Now ladies and gentlemen, the mistake of having almost as many plant designs as there are plants (and hence lots of "nifty details and special troubles") won't be made again. As we enter the second part of the atomic age, only about half a dozen standardized reactor designs are bound to be deployed, worldwide. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
(Perhaps someone can explain why "brown coal" is worse than "coal"? Extraction methods?)
It's interesting to listen to the way this company uses the words "Europe" and "European" - in many ways it's similar to the way they are used in the USA when talking about early US history: old-fashioned, bad, unenlightened and certainly not our responsibility.
(Wikipedia links to an article here - in Swedish, sorry - that sadly I don't have time to translate right now.) -----sapere aude
That there is a renaissance of lignite is nothing short of amazing. It's like the tar sands being renamed oil sands. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
German:
wood: 17-20 MJ/kg Lignit: 20-25 MJ/kg 'soft' Braunkohle: 25.1-26.8 MJ/kg 'hard' Braunkohle: -28500 kJ/kg 'flame' Steinkohle ( = stone coal): -32.85 MJ/kg 'gas flame' Steinkohle: -33.9 MJ/kg 'gas' Steinkohle: -35.0 MJ/kg 'fat' Steinkohle: -35.4 MJ/kg 'eating' Steinkohle: -35.4 MJ/kg 'lean' Steinkohle: -35.6 MJ/kg anthracite: -36.0 MJ/kg
English:
lignite/brown coal: 10-20 MJ/kg sub-bituminous coal: 20-28 MJ/kg (with most sold in the US near the lower limit) bituminous coal: 24-35 MJ/kg anthracite: 26-33(?) MJ/kg *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I think that should be my next sig-line.
10-25 MJ/kg. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
It's not a mistake, it's an evolutionary radiation. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
