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Entergy Corporation and the state of Vermont faced off last week in federal court over relicensing of Vermont Yankee. At issue is whether the state of Vermont has the right to deny relicensing of the 40-year-old nuclear power facility for an additional twenty years. The NRC has already granted preliminary...
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Entergy Corporation, the owner of Vermont’s only nuclear power plant (Vermont Yankee) is suing the state of Vermont over the ability to get relicensed to operate past its current license, which is set to expire in 2012. What makes the case interesting is an agreement made in an MOU between Entergy...
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German’s chancellor Angela Merkel announced last week that Germany would phase out all nuclear power in their country by 2022. Eight nuclear power plants were taken off-line shortly after the Fukashima incident in Japan and reportedly will not be re-started. This leaves 11 plants to be phased out...
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In light of the Fukushima Daiichi plant catastrophe in Japan, leading nuclear experts are rethinking the safety and viability of the storage of spent nuclear fuel in cooling water pools. A recently released MIT study recommends that we rethink the entire spent-fuel management system. Conclusions drawn...
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We’re all anxiously hoping that Japan can get their Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control and prevent continued nuclear contamination releases into the air and water. The environmental damage that has already occurred will take many years to repair (not to mention the affects of the earthquake...
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President Obama has made a push to promote the construction of nuclear power facilities as part of his long-range energy plan. This has met with opposition from environmental groups and others with concerns about safety and the environment. To further confuse the issue, a number of nuclear power plants...
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Earlier this week, President Obama laid out his energy policy which highlighted strong support for “clean coal” and biofuels. The New York Times (2/4, John Broder) reported that the president “is trying to expand the portfolio of American energy sources to reduce emissions of greenhouse...
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Maybe I spend too much blog time discussing nuclear power, but I feel there isn’t enough advocacy for a technology that has a place on our global energy future. A recent article in Science Daily describes a “4th generation or Gen IV ” reactor technology that uses a closed fuel cycle...
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The New Your Times reported recently that President Obama has cut off DOE funding for the Yucca Mountain project and is reportedly planning to withdraw the project’s permit application at the NRC. Yucca Mountain in Nevada had previously been identified as the most suitable location for the permanent...
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As part of our effort to secure our national energy future, I think nuclear power needs to be in the mix. In Europe, the next generation of nuclear power plants applies advances in nuclear engineering and technology to create a more efficient and safer power plant. While nuclear power has many critics...