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Nuclear power’s core of support gains strength

Houston Chronicle, by ERIC BERGER

After a decadeslong winter of discontent, a confluence of favorable events during the last 10 years has provided a spark to America’s nuclear industry.

With no major U.S. accidents during that period, public opinion has slowly swung in favor of splitting atoms to meet the country’s voracious power demands. The cost of natural gas — a competitor to nuclear — spiked to $13 per thousand cubic feet last year, although it has since fallen. And in a world worried about carbon dioxide, nuclear energy stands out, because it produces virtually no greenhouse gases.


Posted by: Sammy on 01/11/09 at 07:20 AM
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  • 1. · "Nuclear power is the most expensive way anybody has ever figured out how to boil water,” Josh Dorner of the Sierra Club said. “Ignoring the waste problem, you just can’t justify the costs.”

    Comment by amphibia  on  01/12/09  at  09:43 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 2. · The waste issue
    And the issue of nuclear waste disposal remains a quagmire, with no imminent agreement to move forward on building a waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where the project is widely opposed. Obama’s choice for energy secretary, Steven Chu, has previously expressed doubts about Yucca Mountain.

    Comment by amphibia  on  01/12/09  at  09:47 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 3. ·
    And the issue of nuclear waste disposal remains a quagmire, with no imminent agreement to move forward on building a waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where the project is widely opposed.
    The Yucca Mountain Repository is mostly already constructed and has been for more nearly 15 years. Its been a huge underground scientific laboratory during that time. Yucca Mountain can be ready to take spent fuel in as little as 5-10 years if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would approve the construction permits for the actual preparation of the fuel storage alcoves.

    The federal government, specifically the Department of Energy, is ultimately responsible for the collection, transportation, storage and/or disposal of spent nuclear fuel, under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Right now, because of the delays in funding and licensing of the Yucca Mountain project, nuclear spent fuel is being stored on-site in spent fuel pools and in dry storage casks.

    Everyone also seems to forget that the site at Yucca Mountain, despite being geologically perfect for nuclear waste disposal, cannot be used for anything else, its already radioactive. Yucca Mountain sits in the middle of the military's nuclear weapons test site from decades ago and still carries the radioactivity from those experiments and tests.

    "Nuclear power is the most expensive way anybody has ever figured out how to boil water,” Josh Dorner of the Sierra Club said. “Ignoring the waste problem, you just can’t justify the costs.”
    Based on what? A nuclear reactor runs on the same fuel pellets for about two years before being replaced. During the same time period a single coal power plant unit has burned 2.9 million tons of coal (for a 500MW unit). That amounts to about 40 train cars a day of coal. The nuclear power plant has two to three tractor trailers every two years of fuel.

    The cost comparison per MWhr of coal versus nuclear is nearly identical. You're correct that coal is cheaper though, by $.90 a MWhr. Considering the fuel costs, operations and maintenance costs, construction cost, regulatory cost, labor, pensions, taxes, capital, administrative, decommissioning and DOE waste costs it costs $30 per MWhr for nuclear versus $20.1 per MWhr for coal. Hardly the smoking gun of cost justification.

    Comment by The Quack  on  01/12/09  at  10:40 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 4. · When it comes to preservation of life and the environment nuclear loses to wind and solar. Toxic materials that last forever can not be considered clean.

    Comment by amphibia  on  01/12/09  at  01:06 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 5. · I absolutely agree, but find me wind and solar solutions that can generate 1600MW per hour. We've become a society dependent on electricity. We can choose to stop consuming so much electricity or continue to rely on commercial power generation. Ideally to reduce demand a combination of personal wind and solar generation to reduce dependency (but most people don't have the money to make that conversion) and commercial generation is the best short-term solution, but I see everyone switching to hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles before you see windmills and solar panels in everyone's yards.

    In the meantime we have to look at meeting the residential, commercial and industrial need for electricity -- massive amounts of electricity. Of all large MW generators, nuclear is by far the best for the environment. It has a proven safety record, and it has a proven on-line record for generation. On it's scale of generation, it's the best option.

    Comment by The Quack  on  01/12/09  at  01:54 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 6. · What a mess, Global warming cries are suppose to get everyone all fired up to send the polar bears some ice and now some new eggheads are saying global cooling is coming back.
    Its all about stealing money out of you and families pockets to pay for whacked out liberal causes since saving the planet gets tied into everything and its suppose to make it easier for you to cough up the bucks!
    Yes keeping our land, air, and water clean is important and a must but stop shoving political based science down our throats!
    They say the Messiah has arrived so enjoy.

    Comment by jdman1  on  01/12/09  at  01:59 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 7. · Well I still disagree with you Quack about whats best for the environment but I am glad we could have the intelligent interaction with out all the histronics. I like it when we can disagree with others and still use good manners. only time will tell what happens next.

    Comment by amphibia  on  01/12/09  at  02:37 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 8. · You two have inspired me- I dont get it when folks cant think of a logical argument after a discussion they resort to name calling or dramatic exasperation.

    Amphibia you have alwasy been a gentleman (or woman?) and I appreciate it. Of course it helps when we agree but sometimes we dont.

    Quack has always been reasonable in this forum and usually stays out of the fray unless something is really getting out of hand. I think that whats makes him (or her) a good moderator. I must say the same about SAM and CCCitizen. Without them we would be out her alone in cyberspace.

    I too am very concerned with the environment as you guys know. In the present time though I do agree with Quack- of all the technology that produces a lot of power- Nuclear is it.

    We havennt produced any new plants or improved the ones we have had because of the ears of the past. What you have to look at is the sucessful implementation in Europe of the Nuclear plants being put on line there. India and France has put many on line in the past decade and with the new technology and safety features they have been very realiable.

    The stoorage though is problematic as is the fly ash form coal powered and others.

    Yucca is a good storage option that needs to be implemented soon.

    Research needs to be conducted to see if there may be a better solution for the spent fuel- who knows what it could be used for in the future?

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  01/12/09  at  07:15 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 9. · OK let me try to show where I'm coming from so everyone knows why I feel so bad about nuclear. Alternatives to fossil fuel must be found if we are to maintain world economies and prevent an increase in global temperature with all its uncertainties. The only source of alternate energy that currently produces significant amounts of power is nuclear energy. These reactors have good records of dependable power production. I think most agree so far. The problem lies in disposing of the nuclear wastes and also the mining of uranium. Highly radioactive spent fuel must be stored for 10,000 years before levels of radioactivity will be low enough to pose no environmental hazard. These substances emit IONIZING RADIATION, a form of energy able to penetrate and permanently damage cells. It is essential that artificial sources of ionizing radiation be isolated from our environment. Of course the ocean has become a dumping site barrels of waste droped to the seabed have broken open and washed ashore.It also enters the ocean from leaked storage containers on land in 1993 a russian warship was found dumping liquid nuclear wastes into the sea of Japan.the countries of the CIS HAVE LONG DISPOSED OF CONTAMINATED REACTORS AND RADIOACTIVE WASTES BY ABANDONING THEM AT SEA DO YOU STILL THINK THIS IS A SAFE ALTERNATE SOURCE OF ENERGY?

    Comment by amphibia  on  01/13/09  at  10:50 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 10. · I think the energy is safe- I think the disposal is the concern and of great importance.

    Any caught disposing it in this way should be put out of business and deeply punished.

    I have a real feeling for not just this in the oceans but the miles on miles of twisted plastics- that then break down into nutles that look like photoplankton- that is eaten and taken up the food chain all the way to us.

    All this is of great concern.

    My focus is clean energy now. I want all COAL out of business.

    I fully support T Boones campaign for clean energy and beleive we need to focus all attention on acheiving this within a decade- technology is there to suceed and we just need to make this a priority.

    Until that time we need energy- and of the choices- nuclear is it.

    I certainly understand peoples objection to it.

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  01/13/09  at  12:03 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
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