Exelon's new plan to support
aging nuclear plants and cut carbon emissions is putting a big decision in front of Illinois lawmakers.
Advocates for the Clean Jobs Bill say it will protect ratepayers from the costs of
aging nuclear plants.
From the article:... Advisers to President - elect Donald Trump are developing plans to reshape Energy Department programs, help keep
aging nuclear plants online and identify staff who played a role in promoting President Barack Obama's climate agenda.
City regulators denied the merger in August, saying Exelon's generation mix — including a fleet of
aging nuclear plants it is struggling to keep afloat — did not appear in line with Washington's goal to add more renewable and distributed energy.
Part of this strategy includes saving
aging nuclear plants from shutting down and may lead to building new ones.
Leaks, burst cooling pipes, faulty controls, misplaced fuel rods and engineers» warnings about design flaws have done little to slow down approvals for continued operation of the nation's
aging nuclear plants
In 2017, Governor Cuomo made the controversial decision to spend over $ 7 billion in taxpayer money to bail out three
aging nuclear plants.
EDF Energy has been incorporating extra checks into its strategy for
its ageing nuclear plants since it inherited them from previous operator British Energy, she said.
Cohen says authorities did the right thing when they shut down the troubled and
aging nuclear plant near San Diego.
Not exact matches
Those
plants are
aging, and if we replace them with new
nuclear plants they would struggle to compete against the shrinking costs of wind and solar.
In 1972, at
age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a
nuclear power
plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).
Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power
plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing
aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's
nuclear division on a proposal to replace an
aging uranium enrichment
plant in Kentucky with a new facility.
Tony Blair has given the strongest hint yet that the government will be replacing Britain's
ageing nuclear power
plants.
Skeptical lawmakers will take another look today Cuomo's plan to invest billions of dollars of ratepayer money into
aging nuclear power
plants.
Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of
aging upstate
nuclear power
plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.
«Amazingly, though, the governor is simultaneously pursuing a plan to waste billions of dollars on a corporate bailout to keep
aging, unprofitable
nuclear plants open upstate.»
Making the final comments before an amendment was withdrawn to help the
aging Millstone
nuclear power
plant, State Representative and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R) argues for a full debate for the controversial amendment on the final day of the legislative session.
The desalination
plant would be sited only 3.5 miles downstream from the
aging Indian Point
nuclear plant, which is increasingly leaking radioactive tritium and strontium - 90 into the river.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, D - N.Y., confirmed that Entergy Corp. will shut down the
aging Indian Point
nuclear power
plant in Westchester by 2021.
The government's energy review is due to report back this summer, but Tony Blair has already made clear he believes replacing Britain's
ageing nuclear power
plants is a vital part of the future energy mix, along with renewables and energy efficiency.
Indian Point, the Westchester County - based
nuclear plant on the Hudson River, is running a series of 60 - second radio spots in the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami that again raised concerns over safety at the
aging facility.
Other issues still on the table include: education spending, college affordability, raise the
age, water infrastructure spending, workers comp reform and subsidies for three upstate
nuclear plants.
«Amazingly though, the governor is simultaneously pursuing a plan to waste billions in a corporate bailout to keep
aging, unsafe, and unprofitable
nuclear plants open upstate.»
The state has authorized up to $ 7.6 billion in ratepayer subsidies to keep three
aging upstate
nuclear plants operating.
BUCHANAN, N.Y. >> The
aging Indian Point
nuclear power
plant in Westchester County will close within about four years under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who long has argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of
aging upstate
nuclear power
plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.
Their analysis includes recent unplanned shutdowns at Entergy's
aging Indian Point
nuclear plant, which Cuomo has questioned keeping open.
Indian Point Energy Center, the more than
aging nuclear power
plant in Westchester County that's just a short trip up the Hudson River from America's most populous city, will fully close by 2021.
On that basis, environmentalists like Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group observed that, «These charges are essentially a tax to keep
aging nuclear power
plants online.»
Lawmakers will also dig into a proposal to close Indian Point
nuclear power
plant, a plan that delights critics of the
aging facility and worries others concerned about lost jobs and power.
The
nuclear industry's decline was hastened by the cheap price of natural gas and costly repairs to
aging power
plants.
The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104
nuclear power
plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.
NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States»
aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of
nuclear fusion power
plants.
LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's
ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing
plant operators many millions of dollars.
But as
nuclear plants age, performance can suffer, and outages - both scheduled and unplanned - rise.
Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's
nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with
ageing technology, among other things.
Europe's
ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing
plant operators many millions of dollars
In the Internet
age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing
plant suggest a wider backlash against
nuclear power.
London insists it needs new
nuclear power
plants to replace
aging ones, but is also granting extended operating permits to those older units
At
age 15, when she realized just how close the bay was to the Oyster Creek Generating Station, the nation's oldest
nuclear power
plant, she swung into action.
Blakeslee, a former Exxon research scientist from San Luis Obispo with a Ph.D. in earthquake studies, authored a bill in 2006 requiring the state to assess the vulnerability of the state's
nuclear plants to a major disruption, either from an earthquake or
plant aging.
But
aging nuclear power
plants may make that goal impossible.
Ageing nuclear power stations and coal power
plants need to be replaced by lower carbon forms of power.
As New York's
aging Indian Point
nuclear power
plant comes up for relicensing, a new report shows that its electricity simply isn't needed.
This is an extraordinarily important failure of a
nuclear plant and the inadequate design — which utterly discounted tsunami risks, for instance — raises big questions about how best to manage the world's
aging fleet of older
nuclear plants — including the one here on the Hudson River — going forward.
Read «
Nuclear Agency Is Criticized as Too Close to Its Industry,» by Tom Zeller, Jr., to see how routine approval of safety exemptions sought by the owners of
aging plants has led to significant problems.
Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the
aging Indian Point
Nuclear Power
Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the p
Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the
plantplant.
The document also indicates that Trump advisers want to keep
aging U.S.
nuclear power
plants active.
The report calls for
ageing fossil fuel and
nuclear power
plants to be replaced by renewable generation when they reach the end of their operational lives.