Notvarpsbron

About five kilometres upstream from Umeå, there is a small suspension bridge across the river that serves as an excellent turning point. After working a few hours in the morning, I decided to head up there before returning home via Sandåkern and a fika at Circle-K (as tradition dictates).

Meanwhile, down in the United Arab Emirates, unit 3 at the Barakah nuclear power plant just entered commercial service, adding another 1,345 MWe of clean dispatchable energy to its grid. Interestingly, fuel loading and testing went much faster than at unit 2 (which in turn went faster than at unit 1), showing that, by building in sequence, there are clear benefits of scale and standardization. Sadly, most countries are taking the opposite approach to the UAE, as in building only one reactor at the time and waiting decades in between...