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NN Asks: What hurdles stand in the way of nuclear power’s global expansion?
Jake Jurewicz
Nuclear technology is mature. It provides firm power at scale with minimal externalities and has done so for decades. The core problem isn’t about the technology—it is how the plants are built. Nuclear construction has a well-documented history of cost and schedule overruns. Previous nuclear plants often spent more than twice what was first budgeted, making nuclear among the power technologies with the largest average cost overruns worldwide.
Recent projects illustrate how severe the problem can be. In South Carolina, the V.C. Summer nuclear expansion saw projected costs rise from roughly $10 billion to more than $25 billion before the project was abandoned in 2017, by which time more than $9 billion had already been spent and customers were stuck paying for a site they have yet to benefit from.
Yoichi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Shikata
Nuclear Technology | Volume 64 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 26-34
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33324
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A potential flow model was developed to predict wind fields in complex terrain. In this model, wind vectors and airflows are estimated from a velocity potential function. It was found that the velocity potential function is obtained by combining threedimensional doublets at each grid point on a horizontal plane and a uniform stream parallel to the surface of the earth. The strengths of the doublets were expressed as a function of the terrain height at each grid point. Wind components at an arbitrary point were easily calculated from the potential flow model proposed. Consequently, this potential flow model is useful in estimating airflows, the convergence and divergence of the distances between streamlines, and the trajectories of radioactive plumes.