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Nuclear power
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nwdiver
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It has nothing to do with the fuel. Converting heat into electricity is not cost effective.
Tiger
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Cost too, but if your fuel runs out mid air climate mission that isn't too useful either?
Vogtle 3 commercial entry delayed another month...
Southern Co.'s Georgia Power Fixes Hydrogen Seal at Vogtle Unit 3, Delays Start Up
By Ben Glickman Southern Co.'s Georgia Power is remediating a damaged hydrogen seal discovered during testing of a reactor at its Vogtle nuclear-power plant, pushing back the long-delayed...
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nwdiver
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Vogtle 3 commercial entry delayed another month...
Southern Co.'s Georgia Power Fixes Hydrogen Seal at Vogtle Unit 3, Delays Start Up
By Ben Glickman Southern Co.'s Georgia Power is remediating a damaged hydrogen seal discovered during testing of a reactor at its Vogtle nuclear-power plant, pushing back the long-delayed...www.marketscreener.com
Baseload nuclear plant goes offline during Texas heat wave. Solar and batteries to the rescue! 
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Why a Texas nuclear power plant stopped producing electricity Friday
Enough electricity to power almost 250,000 homes disappeared from the Texas grid Friday. ERCOT tapped a newly-created reserve system to prevent an emergency.
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mspohr
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They are vague on this reserve power.Baseload nuclear plant goes offline during Texas heat wave. Solar and batteries to the rescue!
Why a Texas nuclear power plant stopped producing electricity Friday
Enough electricity to power almost 250,000 homes disappeared from the Texas grid Friday. ERCOT tapped a newly-created reserve system to prevent an emergency.
Almost immediately, the grid manager deployed a new backup power system. This ERCOT Contingency Reserve Service depends mostly on battery storage, allowing the state to tap long-lasting electricity soon after an unexpected problem.
Is this Tesla powerwalls, powerpacks, something else?
ERCOT Adds New Ancillary Service to Support Grid Reliability
Find the latest ERCOT news releases and updates here.
www.ercot.com
Doesn't say anything about who is the battery providerERCOT Adds New Ancillary Service to Support Grid Reliability
Find the latest ERCOT news releases and updates here.
Skotty
2014 S P85 | 2023 F-150L
Fusion is probably the way to go (as far as nuclear is concerned), but I'm not sure if we are smart enough as a species to do it. I'm hopeful ITER will lead to something, but it's starting to feel like the rest of nuclear power -- endlessly over budget and going no where fast.
Skotty
2014 S P85 | 2023 F-150L
The reason I favor ITER is that it's progress, as slow and over budget as it is, is at least verifiable.
Nuclear puppet gets 20 years in prison.
Former top Ohio lawmaker sentenced to 20 years in one of state’s largest scandals
Former top Ohio lawmaker sentenced to 20 years in one of state’s largest scandals
And his buddy got 5 years too. Led away in handcuffs...
Ex-Ohio GOP chair, lobbyist Matt Borges shows remorse, gets 5 years for role in $60M bribery scheme
Ohio lobbyist Matt Borges has been sentenced to five years in prison for his part in the largest corruption scandal in Ohio history. U.S.
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nwdiver
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SQUIRREL!!
The nuclear industry doesn’t need more subsidies…. it needs some adderall.
How MoltexFLEX aims to democratise nuclear energy with a new generation of molten-salt reactors
mspohr
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Fukushima fish with 180 times legal limit of radioactive cesium fuels water release fears
Black rockfish caught in May close to disaster-hit nuclear power station is one of dozens caught in the past year above the legal safety limit
www.theguardian.com
fish living near drainage outlets at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in May contained levels of radioactive cesium that are 180 times Japan’s safety limit. The black rockfish caught on 18 May was found by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to have 18,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium-137, compared with the legal maximum level of 100 becquerels per kg. Japan’s plan to release 1.3m tonnes of treated water from the Fukushima plant has sparked concern in the region, despite approval from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Hong Kong has threatened to ban food imports from 10 Japanese prefectures if the water release goes ahead as planned.
legendsk
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I suppose this will get moved to the political quarantine, but here goes.
Fossil fuel was the cheapest, quickest and safest alternative to burning whale oil and coal. A vast energy industry was created based on coal, oil and gas. When nuclear became a possibility, the existing energy industry launched every missile they had to defend their territory. The secrecy about nukes and the stupidity of training children to hide under their desks in case of nuclear attack made nuclear power an easy target. This dragged on a few years, but the FUD overpowered science and reason and the legal cost of building a nuclear power plant began to exceed the cost of the physical construction, making nuclear impractical. It would have been a great step between fossil and solar, but the war was over and nuclear died.
I'm afraid we are stuck with fossil as solar comes on line, not that we need to be, but it is what it is. A good idea presented before its time is sometimes still born and once dead, it's dead forever. Planet Earth will likely weather this as it has so many other disasters and all this will just be another layer in the fossil records for some future intelligence to discover and wonder, how could they have been so stupid?
Fossil fuel was the cheapest, quickest and safest alternative to burning whale oil and coal. A vast energy industry was created based on coal, oil and gas. When nuclear became a possibility, the existing energy industry launched every missile they had to defend their territory. The secrecy about nukes and the stupidity of training children to hide under their desks in case of nuclear attack made nuclear power an easy target. This dragged on a few years, but the FUD overpowered science and reason and the legal cost of building a nuclear power plant began to exceed the cost of the physical construction, making nuclear impractical. It would have been a great step between fossil and solar, but the war was over and nuclear died.
I'm afraid we are stuck with fossil as solar comes on line, not that we need to be, but it is what it is. A good idea presented before its time is sometimes still born and once dead, it's dead forever. Planet Earth will likely weather this as it has so many other disasters and all this will just be another layer in the fossil records for some future intelligence to discover and wonder, how could they have been so stupid?
Vogtle 3 enters commercial operation:
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This quote is just begging for Murphy's Law to come into play...
Today “marks the first day of the next 60 to 80 years that Vogtle Unit 3 will serve our customers with clean, reliable energy,” added Kim Greene, chairman, president and CEO of Georgia Power.
RT
As Vogtle Unit 3 starts commercial operation, Unit 4 gets NRC approval to begin fuel loading
Vogtle Unit 3 is the first newly constructed commercial nuclear reactor in the U.S. in more than 30 years. Unit 4 is expected to enter into service in the fourth quarter of 2023 or first quarter of 2024.
This quote is just begging for Murphy's Law to come into play...
Today “marks the first day of the next 60 to 80 years that Vogtle Unit 3 will serve our customers with clean, reliable energy,” added Kim Greene, chairman, president and CEO of Georgia Power.
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