Re: Fierce Storm Hits Denmark, Sweden - nuke plant shuts down

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>Did the storm cause the shutdown of any non-nuclear power plants?  I
>notice that the failure was a non-nuclear failure.
Some text I wrote 2 days ago was lost. Facts for context:
Total Swedish power capacity: 27000 - 29000 MW.
Hydropower and nuclear power contribute about equally to the energy 
"production" (TWh).
Lost capacity of 8 fossil fuel plants (for peaks in power demand) that have 
been shut down during recent years: 2470 MW.
The radiophobia shut-down of one of the Barsebaeck units: 600 MW.
We now have 11 NNPs (and the population is about 8.8 million).
Most of the hydropower, 12000 MW is found in northern Sweden - a maximum of 
6700 MW of this can be transport south (where the electricity demand is 
high).
During cold "peaks" in Sweden, it is often also cold in the neighboring 
countries but we can sometimes import electricity from Russia (they need 
money) - it has happened before. Tax on nuclear electricity is about 0.5 
cents/kWh - some of us think that this tax money could go east to 
successively help to phase out the graphite moderated reactors.

The fear of radiation has made its contribution to make us more vulnerable 
at cold periods.

Obviously my own thoughts and ideas that may not necessarily be shared by 
others.

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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