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If we use traditional approaches to design, procure and build nuclear plants at the scale we need to get the required level of carbon emission reductions, we simply will fail:.It would be too costly to be attractive to utilities companies and plant owners.
It would be too risky because of the typical levels of cost uncertainty in nuclear projects.It would take too long and be too disruptive to do the required refurbishments.It would be too risky because of the typical levels of programme uncertainty in these types of projects.
It would be impossible to review and approve the design to ensure the required quality for these types of highly regulated buildings.It would be impossible to get the required supply chain capacity for the required design, manufacture, and construction capabilities.. What we need is a fundamental rethink with regards to the future of coal and how nuclear facilities are conceived, designed, procured, and delivered.
Instead of approaching this task as thousands of individual refurbishments, we need to have a unified approach where the design is simplified and standardised in such a way that a much wider range of designers, manufacturers and contractors can participate, and the design knowledge is embedded in building systems and design tools so that everyone involved can benefit from the learning on all the other projects.. To achieve this, we are working with Terra Praxis and their wider team, including specialists from MIT, University at Buffalo, Microsoft and KPMG, to:.
Reduce, rationalise, standardise and optimise the building and engineering systems that are needed for a refurbished plant, in order to.Why are planners (and the public) expected to engage with idealised and unrealistic CGI images of proposed developments that they cannot adjust, interrogate or control?
Digitisation would make it possible to view proposed developments in their context, that any user could control and view from any angle.. Planning applications and the public:.The more accessible a planning application can be made, the easier it can be interpreted.
By making it more understandable it will enable greater levels of public engagement.In turn, it is hoped that this will result in a better decision making process and one that is more reflective of the community it will affect.. Planning, developers and bureaucracy:.