The production of WLCA is required by BREEAM and the GLA.
Existing power stations also vary in capacity, and the various nuclear reactor technologies are also different from each other..The strategy for achieving the required level of standardisation is to isolate variability.
Six standardised seismic isolation solutions can deal with most of the seismic conditions we will encounter.A standardised, customisable heat transfer system allows the new nuclear systems to plug in to the existing coal plant infrastructure.A standardised cross-section design encloses the various types of reactor technologies while being able to expand to deal with various sizes of capacity that are required.
The non-safety related systems for different reactors have strong similarities and can be standardised across different reactor technologies.. A key driver for cost and duration of projects is the complexity of design, construction, and approval process for safety related systems.Traditionally, custom-designed nuclear grade facilities enclose a mixture of safety-critical, safety-supporting and other systems.
Our approach is to separate out these systems and then standardise and optimise them as much as possible..
Replacing coal: process.As an industry, we should also be conscious of how technology moves through society, and the consequences of that.
We’ve seen the recent studies showing how Twitter’s face-crop algorithm prioritises white faces and women;.1. or the issues in 2020 with the UK government’s algorithm for predicting exam results during COVID, which marked down students from disadvantaged areas and backgrounds.. 2.
We’re not suggesting that either of these was deliberate, but what we are saying is that we need to be super-vigilant.We can’t – and shouldn’t – avoid or ignore the ethical in the origin, the present and the destination of technology.. 1.