Posted on 05/06/2016 8:16:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In Illinois, Exelon again warned that the long-challenged Clinton and Quad Cities plants would shut down unless the Illinois legislature passed a bill that would provide economic support for the two plants
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Meanwhile in Florida, Florida Power & Light’s (FPL’s) bid to build two more units at its Turkey Point Nuclear Plant south of Miami continues to run into opposition. On April 20, a state court reversed approval for a new transmission line that would carry power from the two reactors. Two days later, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) approved a plan to deal with serious saline leaks from the plant’s cooling canals. That problem has been brewing for years, drawing charges that FPL has dragged its feet in arresting the leaks and that the DEP has been too lenient in its oversight of the plant.
Rather than using the cooling canals for the two new units, FPL wants to use treated wastewater that would then be injected deep underground. This is an approach that has been used successfully at other plants in the state, though not at the scale FPL plans for Turkey Point Units 6 and 7.
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One rare bright spot for U.S. nuclear came in Tennessee as the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said on May 3 that it expects its newly completed Watts Bar 2 project to achieve first criticality later this month and reach commercial operation this summer.
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That sounds like a great idea, inject treated effluent directly into the aquifer. What could go wrong?
Did they way it’s being injected into the aquifer?
It’s Florida, the aquifer is not that far down.
I think that’s why they are going deep, to be below the aquifer.
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