Fed Approves First New Nuclear Plant in a Generation
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The nation’s first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve Atlanta-based Southern Co.’s request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta.
The vote clears the way for officials to issue an operating license for the reactors, which could begin operating as soon as 2016 and 2017.
The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania raised fears of a radiation release and brought new reactor orders nearly to a halt.
NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko voted against the Vogtle license, saying he wanted a binding commitment from the company that it would make safety changes prompted by the March 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan.
“We’ve given them a license. They have not given us any commitment they will make these changes in the future,” Jaczko said.
The meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant led to a series of recommendations by the NRC to improve safety at the 104 commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S. The changes are intended to make the plants better prepared for incidents they were not initially designed to handle, such as prolonged power blackouts or damage to multiple reactors at the same time.
The changes are still being developed, though Jaczko said it is clear that they will be required by the NRC before the new reactors open in 2016 or 2017.
Despite his opposition to the license, Jaczko called the vote “historic” and a culmination of years of work by Southern Co. and the NRC.
Southern Company Chairman and CEO Thomas A. Fanning called the NRC vote “a monumental accomplishment for Southern Company, Georgia Power, our partners and the nuclear industry.”
Fanning said the company was “committed to bringing these units online to deliver clean, safe and reliable energy to our customers.”
“The project is on track, and our targets related to cost and schedule are achievable,” Fanning said.
Marvin Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry lobbying group, said the NRC vote “sounds a clarion call to the world that the United States recognizes the importance of expanding nuclear energy as a key component of a low-carbon energy future that is central to job creation, diversity of electricity supply and energy security.”
Allison Fisher, an energy expert for the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, called the NRC’s action – less than a year after the Japan crisis – a step in the wrong direction.
“It is inexplicable that we’ve chosen this moment in history to expand the use of a failed and dangerous technology,” she said.
While other countries such as Germany are reversing their commitment to nuclear power, “the U.S. is approving new reactors before the full suite of lessons from Japan has been learned and before new safety regulations that were recommended by a task force established after the meltdown crisis at Fukushima have been implemented,” Fisher said.
The NRC approved a new reactor design for the Vogtle plant in December. Utility companies in Florida and the Carolinas also plan new reactors that use the same design by Westinghouse Electric Co.
The planned reactors are remnants of a once-anticipated building boom that the power industry dubbed the “nuclear renaissance.”
President Barack Obama has offered the Vogtle project $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees as part of its pledge to expand nuclear power.
Obama and other proponents say greater use of nuclear power could cut the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels and create energy without producing emissions blamed for global warming. A new government permit process strongly encourages utilities to use pre-approved reactor designs rather than building custom models, a strategy intended to make construction easier and less expensive.
The once hoped-for boom has been plagued by a series of problems, from the prolonged economic downturn to the sharp drop in the price of natural gas, due in part to improved drilling techniques that have allowed energy companies to tap previously unavailable underground shale formations.
The Vogtle project is considered by many observers to be a major test of whether the industry can build nuclear plants without the delays and cost overruns that plagued earlier rounds of building decades ago.
Close on the project’s heels is South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., which is seeking permission to build two reactors at an existing plant in Jenkinsville, S.C.
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jeniffer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:31pmIt was a payoff to keep Obama from having to prove his eligibility in the Georgia court case last week. Think about it: When the EPA won’t let you do anything and are trying to shut down coal plants, to allow NUCLEAR PLANTS to open is impossible. And they wouldn’t let Keystone pipeline go ahead. By the way, heard on the radio China and Canada signed an agreement on this so think about it the next time you pay $10 for a gallon of gas.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:45pmFrom what I understand, the gas from the pipeline was not coming to the US no matter who turned it down or signed up for it. The only thing it would have given the US is a few hundred to a thousand short term jobs. Much like Obama holding back off shore drilling, yet allowing other nations to do so in the same areas US petrol company’s want to be drilling. Foreign country’s pay for the right…and then export the oil to other Nations…not the US.
I wonder if this is some smoke & mirrors to build something else, or something in tandem to the reactors. I wonder if it will be like Denver International…with 4 times the amount of concrete and steel used compared to what the airport should need.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:01pmOMG a reactor in Japan got flooded out in the storm of the century so lets NEVER build another reactor in America again!
Quick, everybody PANIC!!!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:03pmTake note, this is ONLY AN EXPANSION of an existing nuclear plant.
Report Post »They are NOT building a new nuclear power plant!
Merely expanding an existing one.
Kind of like adding a new turbine to Hoover Dam.
jb.kibs
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:04pmOMG… dude you are 100% right… whoa…
Report Post »this plant is in Georgia … jesus… wtf is going on…
SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:25pmJeniffer is right, bsdetector is wrong. Bull *hit detector will be one of the first to demonstrate against any nuclear waste being stored close to him. People like Bull *hit seem to want it both ways.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:35pm@ Creeof
Report Post »fromyour understanding. . Really did hyour homework on this one didn;t you. The Cnadaian oil sands have been developing forf the past 15 years. (I would take 9 years to plan engineer and construct the in frastructure needed for full production). Second- You got any idea why North Dakota has a NEGATIVE unemployment rate. 70,ooo oil wells over the next 50 tears. They are already pumping more oil that Ecquador (a member of OPEC) Most of that vrude is no leaving the state by rail. The Bakken formation is centered almost exactly on the route of the pipeline. BILLIONS of barrels of sweet crude. Temporary jobs during construction? excavation, leaying the line itself, the manufacture of all the special equipment valvles booters, monitoring stations, Points of input , tank farms, multimodal facilities, the manufacture of the pipe itself, transportation equipment manyu=facture, repair, replacement, logistics fpor the aforementioned involved people. Yeh, say no more than what 60,000-80,000 for at least three years, and dropping poff to probaqbly 15,000 there after.
YUou forgat about the carcinogrns that Harry said were going to “pumped into the aquifers in Nebraska. So- how many spills- and how much damage there in 40 years. Less than 1000 barrels, as best I can remember. NPR’ MSNBC 4neva!
MetalPatriot
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:57pm@Mateytwo
That was some of the most atrocious spelling I’ve encountered here. It doesn’t help the credibility of your argument either.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:00pmSorry about the typos- (tons) Creesty just hacks me off at times.
Report Post »SouthernLibertarian
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:04pmWhat the media, including The Blaze, are failing to mention is that GA Power has been charging residents in GA monthly fees on their power bills to pay for these plants since Jan 1st. The extra charge per customer is about $4.00 and will continue to rise. Most residents have no idea they are paying for these plants. No letter from GA Power was ever mailed to customers informing them of the extra charge on their bill. Now Southern Co is receiving a $9 billion taxpayer loan (Solyndra anyone?), so I hope you are getting the message here. When taxpayers pay for nuke plants, that is called socialism. Straight up. In the meantime, the nuclear waste continues to pile up. I almost forgot to mention there is no plan for cost overrun. The first two plants built had $2-$3 billion cost overrun. And while you are doing your homework on this, please look up the Savannah River Site. BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars being spent there, too! This is coming soon to your state, too!
Report Post »bigdeg
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:41amHey Almighty…I think you need to get your facts straight! People that put for a viewpoint that is not supported be facts, brings down the I.Q. of everyone!
Report Post »RedDawn2012
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 6:59amMateytwo, please throw your FRENCH keyboard away and get an AMERICAN one, OK? Jeez! My eyes hurt trying to read your stuff.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:26amGee, Blaze good work! W T F!! Canadian Prime minister Harper inked a deal with China on oil, uranium, and air travwel on Thuresday (local time) Wednesday here. And what are we reading about?
Report Post »Wooly mammoths.
Twinspeedr
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:13amI love the “failed and dangerous technology comment by that pinhead from ”Public Citizen” who fails to acknowledge that while Fukashima is a serious disaster, no one has suggested that we build nuclear plants like that anymore.
The world has enjoyed millions of MW Hrs of clean flexible electricity from nuclear plants with only 2 serious accidents since inception. How many disasters have occurred at conventional power plants or refineries have occurred in the same time? Or how about the fact that the US Navy that has safely and responsibly operated hundreds of nuclear power plants for 60 years.
I always find it humorous that Conservative with a legitimate concern is a “fear monger,” but a Liberal with a political agenda is not.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:15pmSo this is your attempt to spin something that Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. couldn’t get done. Of course the paranoid conspiracy mind would say they were paid off by the oil companies.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:44pm.
Report Post »My first thought was:
“How much did they contribute to the Obama re-election campaign?”
Lamarr01
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:25pm@Jeniffer – Once Obama is on the ballot in Georgia he will renege on the payback.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:30pmWonder how much Westinghouse (does GE own Westinghouse) had to give the dem libs to get the okay on this? If the truth is ever known about this administration it might even embarrass the dem libs of this country. But I doubt it.
Report Post »WaltJr
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:19pmWestinghouse Nuclear is owned by Mitsubishi Industries, this is a new generation AP1000 (1000 megawatt) plants that are very safe and use passive safety measures that have been developed for 25+ years. GE has a competing design based in North Carolina that uses boiling water instead of pressurized water. GE has not gotten their design approved for US yet. I’d live next ot one any time. Oh yeah as for waste repository, you can thank Harry Reid for killing Yucca Mountain after US spent $50 Billion approving, it is a God foresaken geographically stable dry part of Nevada that would have been a perfect place to store it glassified. Harry proved to be a perfect NIMBY. Shame he won re-election. US would be a better place without him,.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:00amMitsubishi, Japanese company right? Boy, after their problems I really trust them. How about natural gas? Produced in America, by Americans, for Americans? We have more natural gas than we can use in the next 200 years but the dems will not allow it.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:29am@ Showmestateguy
Report Post »The Japanese reactors that got hit by the earthquake AND the tsunami AND survived AND would not have leaked any appreciable amount of radioisotopes IF TEPCO had allowed them to be cooled with seawater from the start of the crisis? Those reactors? They were of an early GE design. The new designs are at least an order of magnitude safer.
Roros
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:20pmWe do need this type of power for sure, after our Dams have been removed so our Fish can live. Yes sir, we do need it, were going to get it.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:38amBetter than light water reactors would be Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors — safer, cheaper, cleaner (much less nuke waste & shorter-lived isotopes). We have had this tech since the 1960′s. Now the Chinese are probably going to develop it and sell us the LFTRs!
Report Post »Check out http://www.energyfromthorium.com — very informative.
REPUB1
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:14pmUNION PLANT ohhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhh
Report Post »REPUB1
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:16pmbegin operating as soon as 2016 and 2017.
oh and we wont be here by then soooo wastes more money that we dont have
Report Post »Birddog
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:10pmIf you think the greenies-comies will let it ever get built you are NUTS the POTUS knows that this will be held up in court for years. Don’t fall for the election year lie.
Report Post »Let the litigation begin.
AngryK9
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:34pmSorry to disappoint. It is well underway. I was on the site in the fall of 2010 when they were in the early stages of site preparation. If you go to the Southern Compnay website there are some great photos of the progress. It will be built. Now weather it runs or not is something else.
Report Post »AngryK9
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:47pmI meant whether.
Report Post »Birddog
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:18pmYes being built was the wrong way to make my point. Lets gust see if the fuel rods ever hit the heavy water, not likely any time soon.
Report Post »I can take you to a natural-gas fired power plant in my neighboring township with footers in the ground for five plus years now and still no further progress go figure.
Helldogger
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:57pmSo what!?!?! OSHA & the EPA will make it so damned expensive we won’t be able to buy the juice.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:10pmNot to mention the eco-terrorists lawsuits, protests and attempts at sabotauge. I still remember as a kid when Palo Verde was being built near my grandfathers ranch the protesters throwing rocks, cutting power lines and trying to intimidate the people who lived in the area every chance they got.
At least back then we had enough range between neighbours that if the protesters would have drawn firearms the neighbours would be safe from when we shot back.
With this proposed plan, the threat will be many times worse.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:50pm@Snow – I actually worked for a electric utility that operated an old nuclear reactor.
Inside the reactor building is a deep swimming pool that contains tubes that are filled with old reactor fuel. All the radioactive fuel that has been used for the past 45 years is stored in this pool because there is no permanent storage for nuclear waste. This waste will be dangerous for the next 250,000 years.
Report Post »What_Did_I_Miss
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:57pmThese will not be built. This is election year politics and a gift to the lawyers that will handle all of the environmental lawsuits. Pandering all the way…
Report Post »AngryK9
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:53pmIt is being built. I have been on the site. And you can go to the Southern website and see photos of the progress. Will it ever run? I don’t know.
Report Post »TwoMinuteMan
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:49pmDont worry, the environmentalists are already challenging. I’m sure they will save us :P
I‘m sure they are fine with living in sod huts and wiping with leaves but i’m not.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:05amBe a Man and turn Our Flag right side up !
Don’t let these jackasses get you down !
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:37pmJust make the darn thing resistant to an EMP attack. Last thing we want is a bunch of nukes puddling their cores after the controls and pumps get knocked out by the “surprise” Iranian EMP launched off a fishing boat in international waters off of our coast.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:31amThey might also require a “core catcher” to be installed. “Belt and suspenders.”
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:35pmLet’s hope that the pendulum, that for so long swung away from technology, has finally turned and begun to swing toward a future where technology haters no longer control the world.
Well, we can dream anyway.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:22pm“The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania raised fears of a radiation release and brought new reactor orders nearly to a halt.”
Nearly? NEARLY?
Report Post »34 years seems to me like a pretty big halt!
progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:27pmCommunists stated years ago they would destroy our country using our own environmental laws,they are patient and have been doing this since the 60′s.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:36pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz3VjoHXLA
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:47pmFunny Germany is reversing and taking out their nuclear power plants..I thought after Chernobyl Russia was doing that also.. THe Georgia guidestones I understand read that the world should only support 500 million people.. I have heard that the gov has an underground facility complete with the necessities to start life over with seeds and such.. I also understand their are other gov facilities like that.. I personally know of where the scientology group has at least one such facility.. No one but maintenance people allowed in. Here’s info on the some of military ones. http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bases.html
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:09pmI hope they put the back-up generators above sea level … just in case
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:00pmNear my home in WV their shutting down 3 coal fired power plants
Report Post »soon
wonder the EPA will do when a few thousand homes start
burning coal/wood in our fire place …
progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:12pmRemember our Marxist POS president said ‘electricity rates will necessarily sky rocket’,well this is part of his plan to make energy cost more than it should.He cares not one bit for Americans,just his sick twisted ideology,Marxism.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:56pmWhats going to happen- a knock at the door, a notice attached to same, court appearnace, fines, and a mandate that your will have to install Solyndra solar panels with enought project output to at least offset thecarbon footprint you sio brazenly forced on the world. Simple-no?
Report Post »SkunkWorks
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 5:48amYour fireplace will have a air sampling device on it. You‘ll have to have it inspected and registered like car in California or they’ll just outlaw fireplaces maybe.
Report Post »RevDave
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:00pmGood. We need several more.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:57pmLet’s see here. American natural gas supplies and reserves are at an all time high with more coming. If a natural gas electric plant blows up (don’t think that has ever happened) you would not contaminate hundreds of square miles around that plant. Can’t say the same with a nuclear plant can you?
Why BO and his dem lib buddies fight everything carbon based but allow the most dangerous form of electrical power generation is beyound my understanding. Everyday more science proves that carbon based global warming is a falsehood but the dem libs keep on keeping on.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:10pmThe point is that nuclear power in the long run is actually less expensive than fossil fuels which will eventually be exhausted (not not in our grandchildren’s lifetimes). Nuclear energy is the SAFEST form of power in the United States (thanks to our superior designs) and it needs to be expanded so that the fossil fuels we do have right now will be used for other needs besides electrical production. Reduce our need for fossile fuel plants in half, and how much oil, coal, and natural gas will be used by this country on a daily basis? Would this enable us to become energy independent again? Would it actually allow us to be a net oil EXPORTER again like we were before WWII? We don’t need to become completely dependent on fission powered plants, but doubling the number of nuclear plants will go a long way towards independence again. Oh and by the way, how many accidents have we seen at those remaining 104 nuclear plants in the last 39 years anyway?????
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:27pm@C.SCLHWHR———–
Point taken, but we still have that issue of storage of nuclear waste. Nobody want’s it stored in their area. The thing about natural gas is there is no storage problem after the fuel has been used.
You have to take into account the storage cost for millions of pounds of spent nuclear fuel when comparing fossil fuel generation to nuclear generation of electricty.
You also need to look at the insurance policies the nuclear generators have to carry compared to what the fossil fuel generators must carry. That is also passed along to the consumer.
Report Post »samurai2112
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:51pmThere is some regulation in place that does not allow for spent fuel rods to be reprossed and used again lowering the storage capacity.
I find it puzzling that from this administration they would approve it now unless they know lawsuits will delay or halt the building after election.
Report Post »idarusskie
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:26amThe nuclear waste problem is political not an engineering problem. It costs amount noting to store. They store it in pools a few years and then it can be stored in dry casks on concrete pads. The problem the fed have tried to bully states to accept it instead of letting the one that want get get it.
The spent fuel can be used as fuel in other types of reactors not yet licensed because the NRC does not have time to look at them because of the stonewalling on this one.
Report Post »mikee99
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:57pmElection year politics. I wish I could have confidence this was actually about helping the country with our serious power issues.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:05pmyep, mark my words ….if obama is reelected{heaven forbid} there will be some epa rule that will stop it from being built.just like the border fence and oil pipeline……………did anyone notice that canadian pm is in china…..obama doen’ t want the oil china will take it
Report Post »mikee99
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:13pmI agree with you all the way. I did not know about the China visit though. Wow, that is so telling.
I keep hearing “if the economy is good Obama is unbeatable by anyone.” While I don’t believe this is true, he certainly will be harder to beat if the numbers the gov puts out “look” good. Why do so many Americans ignore the numerous other reasons he should not be re-elected, like the energy and oil issues. Do entitlements mean that much to them or is it something else?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:14pmOLDGUY49 It‘s ironic isn’t it,the Chinese communists are acting more like capitalists than our Marxist POS president.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:24pmMIKEE99 When people are slaves to government they will continue to vote for whoever promises to keep the gravy train going.All forms of welfare are immoral and disgusting and should be abolished forever,it robs the recipient of their dignity and self worth.We have generational poverty in large part because of the democrat party and it needs to end if we want to maintain our republic because debt will destroy this country much faster than some outside enemy.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:56pmCan we make this a national holiday?
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:55pmDon‘t tell me the liberals are gonna say nuclear power was their idea and they’ve been supporters all along.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:02pmNo, they still want us to go back to burning buffalo chips and tallow candles.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:02pmthats the name of the game
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:57amproblem is that a liberal–Ted Turner is buying up all the buffalos
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:54pmI’m all for building more of these, but I wonder if it wouldn’t be a little safer to put them further inland so Iran has a tougher time hitting them.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:54pmThirty four years since the last approval for a nuclear power plant? That says it all right there,we have a minor accident at tmi and the government won’t allow a new plant to be built for thirty four years,it’s BS.
Report Post »Another reason why the government shouldn’t be regulating nuclear power plants,they’re just obstructionists and always in the way of progress.While we’re at it abolish the DOE,another useless department that makes energy cost more than it should.
actualconservative
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:54pmI don‘t believe that I’ve ever gotten the whole story on cost. Last I looked into this, decades ago, it took an amazing amount of money and fossil fuel to build a nuke and no one had any idea how much it cost to decommission one because only the government had ever done it and they weren’t talking. There are puddles of nuclear waste all over the country, so how does anyone know what the true and TOTAL cost of a decommissioning is? Isn’t this just more privatizing profits and socializing risk?
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:19pmIf the eco-nazi’s would get out of the way and allow U.S. nuclear plants to operate in the same manner as those in France then we would not have half the problems with cost that we have now. ALL of France’s nuclear waste is stored in a pool inside a building the size of a high school gym, is only mildly radioactive, and has been recycled and processed so that it is nowhere as dangerous as the unrecycled, unprocessed garbage the government MANDATES the plants have to keep stored on site because they are unable to find a location to bury all of this poison that they’ve created thru the wonders of bureaucrasy. Recycling the used reactor rods also lowers the cost of operation, but then we’d be running our reactors on the plutonium recycled from the rods, and to the government that is anathema. So you see that a good part of the problem with nuclear plant cost is once again the GOVERNMENT, and not the plants themselves!
Report Post »LB
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:53pmObama is probably going to use it against us. Release the steam…..
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:46pmI’m going to get the liberals really mad and celebrate the nuclear plant by cutting down a baby tree.
Report Post »mr molotov cocktail
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:47pmno its not going to make us liberals mad
Report Post »as long as there is safety -first we dont care
Impenitent
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:44pmnuclear plants are great… genetically altered vegetables aren’t bad either…
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:42pmOdds are the Chinese will get a big part of the construction.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:56pmChixecans
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:04pmIf we havent built a plant in over 30 years….We no longer know how to build them. Perhaps the iranians could tell us
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:34pmRussians were building it for them or given them blueprints.
Canada runs some and built (maybe still does) in many countries, very safe design. Haven’t heard of a single Candu reactor having problems.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:10pmGuarantee it; and Obama will find some way to kill it when it meets his agenda for political points.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:47pmAnd yur ass could get run over by a steamroller when you wlak out your door tomorrow. Chicken Frickin’ Little!
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:57pmGet real…N America cannot go without the generating capacity that nuke plants provide. Shutting down all nuke plants would pernmanently doom the economy and would likely leave large parts of the country without reliable power (or any power at all).
Are you willing to live life without electricity, health care as we know it, computers etc etc ? Don’t be an idiot.
Report Post »wntsmallgov
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:54amDid you forget to take your meds today?
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