"Hunterston B Reactor 3 - a 490 MWe advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) - was taken offline for the final time at midday on 26 November, marking the end of 46 years of operation. Its twin - Hunterston B Reactor 4 - is scheduled to shut down in January, which will see the end of power generation for the site in North Ayrshire, Scotland."
We at Windscale Labs corrected a gag valve problem that showed up first on a Hunterston AGR, all paid for by the South of Scotland Electricity Board.
Ah.
Wondering why the nuclear output dropped a bit.
woo hoo
No more looking at the abortion from Millprt .....
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I mean look what it did to this poor wee house .....
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Only the english could site such a thing there,,,,,
That white Seat doesn't seem to be showing a blue badge in its windscreen. Tut tut.
So what is it that makes it end of life exactly? Is it corrosion, damage to the materials due to radiation or inability to service some parts of it. Hardened robots should be able to do that soon I'd have thought. Brian
Often wondered that myself. Maybe there are pumps that are on the hot side of the radioactivity that are end-of-life.
The steam turb> So what is it that makes it end of life exactly? Is it corrosion, damage to
Too many cracked bricks in the graphite core.
shocking
this is my understanding, also.
only the graphite is the show-stopper though
lets hope they keep the boilers turbines an generators ready for a RR SMR.
No good, wrong steam conditions! Could run them off conventional coal (or gas or oil) boilers though.
I thought RR was at standard temps?
Hmm. it is more that the AGRS are superheaters...well the boilers and turbines might be NBG but generators should still work
I was speaking to Dynamite John this afternoon and asked him if there would be a demolition, but he had no information.
Is the reactor likely to be demolished and will (can?) explosives be used?
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