The bill should be amended to expedite the permitting process for nuclear power plants.
It makes no sense to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity when we have ample domestic supplies of uranium. That’s the key to energy self-sufficiency.
Due to the high prices of fossil fuels someone is finally getting off their collective, well you know what I mean.
Some 17 companies and consortia are pursuing licenses for more than 30 nuclear power plants. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has begun reviewing the first wave of applications.
This link provides a downloadable file which shows the status on these proposed plants.
http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/newplants/graphicsandcharts/newnuclearplantstatus/
This is a dowloadable file and can only be views if you have excell.
I think that's a good idea -- particularly for expansions to existing sites -- but I believe that there are some very long lead times for some manufacturing activities also. From looking at the EIA's site the other day, it appeared to me that some companies have already ordered equipment that apparently will take years before it comes.
I read a very interesting article back in March about the wait times at the Japan Steel factory that builds reactor containment vessels. It was on paper, but I found a related Bloomberg story Samurai-Sword Maker's Reactor Monopoly May Cool Nuclear Revival.
(For what is worth, according to the Bloomberg story, this is the same factory that made the 18 inch guns for the Yamato class battleships.)