Своей очереди на проход через Босфор и Дарданеллы ждут уже 54 судна, включая 18 танкеров Suezmax и 27 - класса Aframax.

Во вторник таких танкеров было 44, а их груз оценивался в 32,7 млн баррелей.

Время ожидания прохода через проливы для танкеров, покидающих Черное море, составляет около 16 дней, что существенно дольше обычного (5-6 дней) и является максимумом с 2014 года.

В обратном направлении время ожидания составляет порядка 17 дней при обычных 6 днях, сообщает агентство Bloomberg со ссылкой на Tribeca.

У нас были эксперименты, когда брались твэлы ВВЭР с известной историей, их растворяли и смотрели их нуклидный состав. Концентрации некоторых из продуктов деления предсказать расчётным образом пока не смог никто.

А почему не смогли? Недостаточно хорошо известны их сечения, или что-то иное?

До конца непонятны даже их предшественники. Мы можем более-менее хорошо определять выходы осколков при делении урана-235 или плутония-239. Но при глубоких выгораниях существенную роль начинает играть деление других, более тяжёлых изотопов.

It also comes less than six months after an investigation by FactWire revealed cracks in important components of the same reactor, including a defective reactor vessel head that is set to remain in use for seven years.
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In 2015, the reactor vessel heads at France’s Flamanville 3 were found to have weak spots due to carbon concentrations that could weaken the resilience of the steel.

The reactor was later ruled fit for service by French nuclear regulator ASN, but utility firm EDF, the owner of Flamanville 3 and also a minority partner in the Taishan project, must replace the vessel head by 2024.

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Meanwhile at Taishan, when the NNSA issued a fuel loading permit for unit 1 in April, it only required CGN to develop a testing method for its reactor vessel head ‘as soon as possible’.

‘If developments fail or test results are unfavourable, the cover shall not be used by the end of April 2025,’ the permit reads.

The report also pointed out that some pipelines required frequent repairs due to welding defects, for which the operator was only instructed to perform standard inspections and testing.

Other problems identified in the report included wrong signage in the plant, lock failure in high radioactive areas, random reboots of the digital reactor monitoring system and incomplete training for nuclear fuel operators.

In December, FactWire revealed that a deaerator in Taishan unit 1 cracked during testing and must be replaced, as well as high carbon concentrations in upper head of a steam generator that had make them more prone to cracks. At the time CGN only admitted that there were ‘partial defects’ in the welding of the deaerator.

FactWire (Chinese: 傳真社) is an investigative news agency headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong. 3,300 Hong Kong residents funded and founded FactWire in the first round of seed fund via the crowdfunding platform FringeBacker in 2015.

As a non-profit public service news agency, it was established on 18 August 2015, and became operational on 1 March 2016. FactWire mainly focuses on watchdog investigative reporting wired to a large number of Hong Kong's mainstream news outlets.[1]