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A lot further than most would think. Especially american reactors. The new reactors westing house are building are incredibly solid design.
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Honestly asking...
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Still, my opinion is to diversify in our energy portfolio, because the market can be volatile and each energy source has its strengths and weaknesses. Oil and gas is cheap and easy to fire up when we have peak energy demand during the day. Wind and solar are greener but dependent on the weather and cant be placed everywhere. Nuclear is great for your base loads (e.g. things that are always on such as your refrigerator).
The few new plants we are building now (the ap1000) had digital control panels. The small modular nuclear reactor I was designing for my first project out of college had digital controls.
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There was an accident at Brown's ferry years ago that made the industry go to pretty extensive train separation and wiring just to insure a fire in one set of safe shut down equipment can't effect the other.
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While there are definitely pro's to automating your controls, your current controls can't be hacked. With all the focus on cyber security in the last few years, I joke that we need to go back to "hand controls".
Fully agree that "auto" and let the controls do it's thing is kinda boring. While I am not an operator, if I was one though, I would want to put everything in manual just for the challenge.
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