https://www.newpower.info/2024/01/edf-announces-further-delay-and-cost-increase-at-hinkley-point-c/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://www.newpower.info/2024/01/edf-announces-further-delay-and-cost-increase-at-hinkley-point-c/#comment-96082 David Dundas Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:07:12 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=13030#comment-96082 While the cost of Hinkley Point C underlines the massive cost of these water moderated and cooled reactors, and EDF hopes to duplicate the final design for Sizewell C and save costs, this still does not explain why the UK continues to cool the fission reactors with water at very high pressures of over 2,000 psi which requires very expensive safety containment buildings that are a major part of the total cost, when alternative proven fission technologies using alternative heat transfer fluids such as molten salts or lead exist, that operate at much lower pressures, would substantially reduce the cost.

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