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Estonia close to pulling the plug on nuclear power project

Estonian leaders seem to have made a principle decision that Estonia would distance itself from the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant project.

Postimees writes that both Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and Eesti Energia CEO Sandor Liive said on Friday that if Estonia decided to opt for nuclear power, the priority should be in building its own nuclear power plant.

This marks a new shift in thinking since it is the first time in the last two years when the government and Eesti Energia have been promoting the Ignalina project as the answer to Estonia’s energy problems.

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“We are not ruling out participation in the Lithuania project, but if our long-term objective is to use nuclear power than we should prepare the construction of our own reactor. We cannot rely on the Lithuanian project,” said Liive.

Liive said that the Lithuanian project was derailed because of political disputes in Lithuania. Prime Minister Ansip added: “I don’t know whether the whole Baltic nuclear power plant project has come to an end now, but I am most dissatisfied about its development timetable.”

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Westinghouse has a modular design PWR reactor :AP-600 and AP-1000 (600MW & 1000MW) which has failsafe mechanisms that work on natures laws of gravity- thus it has less moving parts and it takes only 5 years to build. The south africans and the chinese are working on pebble bed reactor designs that are small and modular and could be build at even less cost. Some of these pebble bed designs are so small they fit in the basement of a building and could provide enought ""juice" to heat a whole city through winter.These reactor designs are cheaper than French, Finnish and Swedish designs and could be funded with both EU structual funds and bond issues. There would be enough capacity that Estonia could export the excess electricty to further offset the costs. Such a plant could also produce hydrogen fuel at a sensible cost, thus making Estonia an innovative green nation. This know-how could be sold all over the world. This is simple in engineering terms (I have a Bachelors Degree in Nuclear Engineering & operation reactor experience from Kansas State University) but a near impossibility in terms of political will. I can offer myself as the first special interest lobbyist in Estonia to advocate for nuclear power and educate the general population how new technology reactors are inheritantly safe and could never do a Chernobyl. This is Estonia's ticket to energy independence and it should be made a "manhattan project" priority by government and business leadership in all sectors as they stand to benefit long term.
~Alex Grover [09.11.2008, 09:42]
I still do not know how to store energy, from windmills for example.
Does anybody know this?
~Maarten van Gent [04.11.2008, 09:21]
Government Bond, great summary! I think Estonia should do b, but taking the mentality of Estonia today into account unfortunately it will most certainly be d.
~Dag [04.11.2008, 08:54]
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