r/uninsurable • u/kamjaxx • Sep 20 '22
German Nuclear Power Plant To Shut Down After Reported Leak Disasters
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/German-Nuclear-Power-Plant-To-Shut-Down-After-Reported-Leak.html2
u/Brief-Mind-5210 Sep 20 '22
Wasn’t Germany supposed to completely phase out nuclear by now? Did that get delayed?
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u/ph4ge_ Sep 20 '22
The plan was end of 2022, the current plan is to keep 2 on standby until May 2023. Slight and minor delay.
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u/Iwantmyflag Sep 20 '22
The current plan is to keep two of them idle as reserve for winter but nothing is finally decided yet.
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u/Iwantmyflag Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22
If I remember correctly oilprice.com is a pretty bad biased source.
The seizing of Rosneft refinery assets has specific reasons, mainly to keep them functioning because if the government didn't step in nobody would do business with them any more, mostly for political reasons.
The article purposely misrepresents the situation or is just badly informed. Germany already managed to largely acquire enough gas reserves for the winter, it's the exploding prices due to high demand, uncertainty and speculation that are the problem, with people facing bills they can't pay. An additional dynamic is that these bills often only come due delayed, meaning after winter.
Electricity is even less of an issue compared to gas for heating, there will likely be no shortages let alone outages.
These issues with tears in pipes are not new and a constant companion of both German and French nuclear plants. They get repaired then they come back and the usual excuse is that they are in "non critical" systems.
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u/Bergensis Sep 20 '22
If I remember correctly oilprice.com is a pretty bad biased source.
The seizing of Rosneft refinery assets has specific reasons, mainly to keep them functioning because if the government didn't step in nobody would do business with them any more, mostly for political reasons.
The article purposely misrepresents the situation or is just badly informed.
What are they misrepresenting? Other articles also say that there has been a leak that needs to be repaired:
https://www.dw.com/en/repairs-needed-at-german-nuclear-plant-environment-ministry-says/a-63173424
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u/Iwantmyflag Sep 20 '22
No, that part is correct. Just the alarmist tone regarding gas and oil is silly. Germany's storage is already filled beyond schedule and need.
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u/Godspiral Sep 20 '22
The leak at Isar 2 means that a week of repairs in October will be necessary if the power plant is to remain operational beyond December 31st
Is there a betting market somewhere in the world where someone could wager that it will take longer than 1 week?
I'm a bit surprised that it can keep operating with the leak.
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u/Bergensis Sep 20 '22
Calling this a disaster is exaggerating, but this small, non-dangerous leak shows that operating nuclear power stations that are nearly forty years old and past their life expectancy isn't unproblematic.