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How many years do you think it will be before another nuclear reactor electric power plant is licensed/allowed in the US :???:

I'm saying 10-20 years.....
 

Whitewing

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I thought I heard tonight that a number were in the works or even recently granted.

Having said that, there's no doubt that the real or imagined dangers resulting from Japan's current crisis will set the industry back at a time when America most needs energy alternatives.
 

TSR

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What really bothers me about the politicians touting the needs for nuclear power plants(especially the republicans) is how they speak of the plants producing "clean energy". My gosh, don't these plants produce barrels of radioactive waste that has to be buried somewhere? Anyone want it next to your property?? Why don't they just tell the whole truth, oh well, too much to ask of politicians ,I suppose. :(
 

Whitewing

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TSR said:
What really bothers me about the politicians touting the needs for nuclear power plants(especially the republicans) is how they speak of the plants producing "clean energy". My gosh, don't these plants produce barrels of radioactive waste that has to be buried somewhere? Anyone want it next to your property?? Why don't they just tell the whole truth, oh well, too much to ask of politicians ,I suppose. :(

Clean it's not. And the supply of fuel needed to run them isn't inexhaustible as well. As the saying goes, there's no free lunch.
 
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Whitewing said:
TSR said:
What really bothers me about the politicians touting the needs for nuclear power plants(especially the republicans) is how they speak of the plants producing "clean energy". My gosh, don't these plants produce barrels of radioactive waste that has to be buried somewhere? Anyone want it next to your property?? Why don't they just tell the whole truth, oh well, too much to ask of politicians ,I suppose. :(

Clean it's not. And the supply of fuel needed to run them isn't inexhaustible as well. As the saying goes, there's no free lunch.

Altho the radioactive waste is about 1/100th of what it was with the original reactors...

Biggest problem is that reactors need lots of water- putting them on a coast- which opens them up to lots of major natural disasters....

I'm a firm believer in use of multiple sources of energy-- and the fact we need a LONG TERM energy plan- focusing on multiple energy sources- which would give/allow corporate/industry reason for investment...

But on the smiley side of the Japan nuke problems-and continuing opposition for being held hostage by foreign oil - I see the oil/mineral right land I own in the Bakken Oil Field and MonDak Gas just becoming more valuable.... :D :D
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
TSR said:
What really bothers me about the politicians touting the needs for nuclear power plants(especially the republicans) is how they speak of the plants producing "clean energy". My gosh, don't these plants produce barrels of radioactive waste that has to be buried somewhere? Anyone want it next to your property?? Why don't they just tell the whole truth, oh well, too much to ask of politicians ,I suppose. :(

Clean it's not. And the supply of fuel needed to run them isn't inexhaustible as well. As the saying goes, there's no free lunch.

Altho the radioactive waste is about 1/100th of what it was with the original reactors...

Biggest problem is that reactors need lots of water- putting them on a coast- which opens them up to lots of major natural disasters....

I'm a firm believer in use of multiple sources of energy-- and the fact we need a LONG TERM energy plan- focusing on multiple energy sources- which would give/allow corporate/industry reason for investment...

But on the smiley side of the Japan nuke problems-and continuing opposition for being held hostage by foreign oil - I see the oil/mineral right land I own in the Bakken Oil Field and MonDak Gas just becoming more valuable.... :D :D

Map of all nuclear power facilities in the USA and a national radiation monitoring system.

http://radiationnetwork.com/

Reactors are NOT ALL on the coast, as you can see.

OT is just like your typical Liberal in looking at what is best for them personally. :roll:
 

hopalong

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The nations largest nuclear power plant is quite some distance from a coastal supply of water oldtimer, might need to do a little research before making that claim!

Just East of Phoenix, Az :D

Also plants in Mo.Ne.Ks.Il.Ia.Tn.ust to name a few others, total of 31 states have them. for a total of 104, with 39 being boiling water (the kind that is under surveillance in Japan) construction and 69 of them are pressurized water construction.
23 companies are licensed to operate and maintain the sites within the U.S.

G.E. designed the one in Japan.
 

hopalong

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hypocritexposer said:
When was the last one licensed and built?


According to the US Dept of Energy, the last reactor built was the "River Bend" plant in Louisiana. Its construction began in March of 1977. The last plant to begin commercial operation is the "Watts Bar" plant in Tennessee, which came online in 1996.
 

hopalong

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Oldtimer said:
How many years do you think it will be before another nuclear reactor electric power plant is licensed/allowed in the US :???:

I'm saying 10-20 years.....



By Robert Koenig, Beacon Washington correspondent
Posted 5:40 pm, Wed., 3.16.11
WASHINGTON - The fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis is threatening to unbalance the unusual coalition pushing for what some call a "nuclear power renaissance" in the United States -- a clean-energy initiative that is vulnerable to economic and political concerns.

In his State of the Union address in January, President Barack Obama called for a "new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" and backed that up with a budget proposal for a $36 billion loan guarantee program for nuclear energy, which would help spur construction of as many as 20 new nuclear power plants.


That was part of the Obama administration's plan to boost nuclear along with other clean-energy alternatives, such as solar and wind power. Despite this week's severe problems at nuclear reactors in Japan, the administration has stuck with its nuclear energy plan. On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that nuclear energy "has an important role to play in our energy portfolio."

Chu backed the administrations proposal for expanded loan guarantee authority to "jumpstart the domestic nuclear industry." But Chu said his department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be "looking very, very closely at the events in Japan" to see if changes are needed "at the current existing nuclear power plants and any that are being considered" for construction in this country.

This country has not issued a new construction license for a nuclear power plant in three decades, since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania. However, one plant was build under an earlier license in the late 1990s, and three new plants are now in the early phases of construction, with one plant in Georgia expected to get its NRC license later this year and a new plant in South Carolina early next year. In Tennessee, construction has resumed on a reactor that had been started many years ago.
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
TSR said:
What really bothers me about the politicians touting the needs for nuclear power plants(especially the republicans) is how they speak of the plants producing "clean energy". My gosh, don't these plants produce barrels of radioactive waste that has to be buried somewhere? Anyone want it next to your property?? Why don't they just tell the whole truth, oh well, too much to ask of politicians ,I suppose. :(

Clean it's not. And the supply of fuel needed to run them isn't inexhaustible as well. As the saying goes, there's no free lunch.

Altho the radioactive waste is about 1/100th of what it was with the original reactors...

Biggest problem is that reactors need lots of water- putting them on a coast- which opens them up to lots of major natural disasters....

I'm a firm believer in use of multiple sources of energy-- and the fact we need a LONG TERM energy plan- focusing on multiple energy sources- which would give/allow corporate/industry reason for investment...

But on the smiley side of the Japan nuke problems-and continuing opposition for being held hostage by foreign oil - I see the oil/mineral right land I own in the Bakken Oil Field and MonDak Gas just becoming more valuable.... :D :D

Gee if I'm a hypocrite for going to a hospital in a medical emergency :? then what is Oldtimer when he finds happiness in another country's disaster that has caused thousands to die because he feels it will benefit him when a Big Greedy Profit Stuffing Oil Company comes to negotiating the purchase of HIS OIL/MINERAL RIGHTS?

Oldtimer wrote
The oil/energy companies brought all this on themselves for not being forward thinking enough and then for greedy profiteering rather than looking/working toward a solution....As energy suppliers they could have been investing those profits into alternatives/infrastructure to keep energy supply sufficient rather than sticking it in their pockets with ever growing multi billion $ profits....I don't feel sorry for them one bit..

Your compassion for others is truth amazing Oldtimer :roll:
 

jingo2

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Tam said:
Your compassion for others is truth amazing Oldtimer :roll:


And you ability to twist things is amazsing also.


Sounds like you're jealous that YOU don't own some of that land....
 

Tam

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jingo2 said:
Tam said:
Your compassion for others is truth amazing Oldtimer :roll:


And you ability to twist things is amazsing also.


Sounds like you're jealous that YOU don't own some of that land....

Returning the favor of chiming in while Oldtimer shows his true side like he chimed in when you showed yours with the headache thread? :?

BTW Twisted what? Oldtimer sees a "SMILEY SIDE" to a Japanese disaster, where thousands have died and thousands more might die as long as he benefits with higher oil rights fees being paid to him by a company that he continuely snipes at. If that is not a major HYPOCRITE when he seems to think I'm not to get medical attention due to me voicing my concerns about our Medical system. What is?
 
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