Utterly criminal that a simple power plant could fudge up a government that bad. How do you spend the equivalent of a significant portion of America's military budget building one thing and the damn thing doesn't even get built. Ridiculous
In Australia, our wannabe prime minister , mr potato head Dutton , wants to build @ least 8 “ small modular reactors “ in ten years 1 they don’t exist. Two were built, neither worked to expectations, one is now decommissioned, the other placed in storage mode. 2 we have no nuclear infrastructure, or industry. 3 It would take 30 + years for a industry to build these systems 4 the driest continent on earth will have difficulty supplying cooling water, for said reactors I’ll stop now
And instead they could have had about 20 small modular completed in an assembly line and erected out there and they'll create power for the next 35 years without having to refuel
I know the guy who that Crane is named after 🙂 one of my childhood friends, his father, I mean the last name is quite literally the brand name too, I saw a red version of this crane irl once as a kid when they were new
Wow the UK is is really moving forward. Why isn't the US doing the . Instead of creating jobs like this they make more McDonald's more fast food places and more shopping malls😅
Will never see a single reaction inside the vessel. I was a nuclear welder for many years and the last project I was on was Jenkensville, S.C. Power upgrade that wasn’t a fraction of that size. Once the government determined it cost too much ($8B over budget) before the half way point…they shut it straight down, sent every one of the 5,000 workers home without notice the following days as they came on shifts and now is nothing more than two half built and completely abandoned vessels in half built buildings. No nuclear projects have been successfully completed in over 40 years because of cost miscalculation.
Also, I’ve actually witnessed “Big Carl” in action. That is the largest moving machine I e ever seen. It’s mind boggling huge
I thought it was 10% of the UK's electricity. DOesn't seem like this is worthwhile build. How are they even going to get all that money bacK? I project it will complete at close to £80bn in costs. ONly in 2018 it was projected to cost £19bn so the costs have massively ballooned.
Hopfully the next one just annouced comes in far far cheaper now the expertise is there. When you stop building something for decades, that expertise and experience dies with it.
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Largest bellend in the world
57 billion for 7% is terrible
Utterly criminal that a simple power plant could fudge up a government that bad. How do you spend the equivalent of a significant portion of America's military budget building one thing and the damn thing doesn't even get built. Ridiculous
In Australia, our wannabe prime minister , mr potato head Dutton , wants to build @ least 8 “ small modular reactors “ in ten years
1 they don’t exist. Two were built, neither worked to expectations, one is now decommissioned, the other placed in storage mode.
2 we have no nuclear infrastructure, or industry.
3 It would take 30 + years for a industry to build these systems
4 the driest continent on earth will have difficulty supplying cooling water, for said reactors
I’ll stop now
You call that bad. Check Olkiluoto 3
It all makes sense now… That's why the UK needs to import so many engineers. 😂
For just 7% electricity, nah
Cost over runs in our modern era are getting out of control. Would have taken 8 months to build this 40 years ago.
And instead they could have had about 20 small modular completed in an assembly line and erected out there
and they'll create power for the next 35 years without having to refuel
It is intended to …
I know the guy who that Crane is named after 🙂 one of my childhood friends, his father, I mean the last name is quite literally the brand name too, I saw a red version of this crane irl once as a kid when they were new
It will probably melt down & kill 1000's.
Tis is the biggest thing happened to the European power system
Hope they keep building more, though maybe smaller ones, so the price keeps coming down
Wow the UK is is really moving forward. Why isn't the US doing the . Instead of creating jobs like this they make more McDonald's more fast food places and more shopping malls😅
Will never see a single reaction inside the vessel.
I was a nuclear welder for many years and the last project I was on was Jenkensville, S.C. Power upgrade that wasn’t a fraction of that size. Once the government determined it cost too much ($8B over budget) before the half way point…they shut it straight down, sent every one of the 5,000 workers home without notice the following days as they came on shifts and now is nothing more than two half built and completely abandoned vessels in half built buildings.
No nuclear projects have been successfully completed in over 40 years because of cost miscalculation.
Also, I’ve actually witnessed “Big Carl” in action. That is the largest moving machine I e ever seen. It’s mind boggling huge
SK6000 from Mammoet is the biggest land crane
Only needed to replace Trident warheads. Completely unnecessary to reach energy or carbon goals.
wow its MASSIVE
Over budget and behind schedule, the nuclear power story
Please lose the background music. The content doesn't need it
B – Big Ben
C – Big Carl
when are we getting Big Dave Lister?
It was initially expected to cost 6 billion😂😂 yeah fkn right
You have nuclear and don’t want others to have one
i guess to prevent meltdown and temperature they use tea instead of water
All of that for 7%?!
I thought it was 10% of the UK's electricity. DOesn't seem like this is worthwhile build. How are they even going to get all that money bacK? I project it will complete at close to £80bn in costs. ONly in 2018 it was projected to cost £19bn so the costs have massively ballooned.
Hopfully the next one just annouced comes in far far cheaper now the expertise is there. When you stop building something for decades, that expertise and experience dies with it.
6 million homes that’s not even enough for the immigrants coming on the boats
Whoah that's bigger than in Chernobyl 😮
So if homes use £10. A week. They will.make. back 3 billion a year but how many home. Only use £10. A week
The humans destroys everything in the
Worth it.
Just keep building more using acquired skills
Nightmare ? Leave Britain if anything new scares you. Go, you're unwanted.
This is a complete f*ck up and a waste of public money
It's probably worth it when you are decades behind in design and construction of such stuff then you need to put some extra effort in.