Innovative ways of funding nuclear power projects As governments worldwide face up to the climate change commitments under the COP21 agreement and the need for large – and growing – baseload power, nuclear generation is again being hailed as a real answer to the world’s energy problems. However as with all energy solutions, set-up costs … Continue reading Innovative ways of funding nuclear power projects
Duke Energy hit records for nuclear plant production in 2015 Duke Energy says its Oconee Nuclear Station in South Carolina hit an all-time national record in 2015, producing power at 98% capacity. Charlotte-based Duke (NYSE:DUK) also reports that its entire fleet of 11 nuclear plants produced power at 94.2% of their capacity. That beats the … Continue reading #Duke_Energy hit records for nuclear plant production in 2015
Tennessee Valley Authority may sell Alabama nuclear power plant BIRMINGHAM, Ala. >> The Tennessee Valley Authority said Wednesday that it is considering whether to sell its unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, started in 1974 in northeast Alabama and mothballed for the past 28 years without ever producing any electricity. The federal utility announced it is taking … Continue reading Tennessee Valley Authority may sell Alabama nuclear power plant
Energy Department Considers Burying Nuclear Waste in 3-Mile-Deep Holes LUBBOCK, Texas — The federal government plans to spend $80 million assessing whether its hottest nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes, a project that could provide an alternative strategy to a Nevada repository plan that was halted in 2010. The five-year borehole project was … Continue reading Energy Department Considers Burying Nuclear Waste in 3-Mile-Deep Holes
Why the Current Nuclear Showdown in California Should Matter to You Does the dream of nuclear power still ‘look bright’ as one enthusiastic investment advisor gushed less than a year ago, or is it the “the dream that failed,” as the Economist asserted as far back as March of 2012? Approaching 5 years this March … Continue reading Why the Current Nuclear Showdown in California Should Matter to You
Radioactive Handouts: the Nuclear Subsidies Buried Inside Obama’s “Clean” Energy Budget You don’t have to be a math wizard to understand the Obama administration’s just announced $4.15 trillion budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year, but it helps. It also helps if you like gerunds, since pretty much every header in the administration’s Budget document … Continue reading Radioactive Handouts: the Nuclear Subsidies Buried Inside Obama’s “Clean” Energy Budget
NYISO Warns of Power Capacity Gap When Ginna, FitzPatrick Nuclear Plants Are Closed Closure of Exelon’s 614-MW R.E. Ginna and Entergy’s 882-MW James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plants will leave New York with a statewide power deficiency starting in 2019, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has concluded. A generator deactivation assessment issued on February … Continue reading NYISO Warns of Power Capacity Gap When #Ginna, #FitzPatrick Nuclear Plants Are Closed
South Texas Nuclear Reactors Can’t Compete With Renewables, Risk Financial Meltdown HOUSTON February 10, 2016 – Public Citizen, the SEED Coalition and the South Texas Association for Responsible Energy are opposing a decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to approve construction of two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project nuclear plant … Continue reading South Texas Nuclear Reactors Can’t Compete With Renewables, Risk Financial Meltdown
It is now time to remove the nuclear fuel from San Onofre In the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future final report to the Secretary of Energy, it stated that the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act which tied the entire U.S. high-level waste management program to the ill-fated Yucca Mountain site in Nevada has … Continue reading It is now time to remove the nuclear fuel from #San_Onofre
New York’s Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Is Leaking, But You Shouldn’t Freak Out Buchanan New York’s Indian Point Energy Center, a three-unit reactor power plant, reported yesterday afternoon that radioactive tritium has been detected in groundwater testing wells near the facility. Three groundwater monitoring wells surrounding the plant have reported radioactive samples. Despite the … Continue reading New York’s #Indian_Point Nuclear Power Plant Is Leaking, But You Shouldn’t Freak Out
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