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Nation’s 1st advanced nuclear reactor could operate near Tri-Cities under new agreement
Tri-City Herald ^ | APRIL 01, 2021 | BY ANNETTE CARY

Posted on 04/01/2021 1:40:14 PM PDT by shotgun

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1 posted on 04/01/2021 1:40:14 PM PDT by shotgun
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“The TRi Energy Partnership could be operating a reactor within seven years, and the project could be scaled up to four-reactor, 320-megawatt power plant.”

Good to know, I’ve previously seen estimates of 20-30 years to get a nuclear reactor in America planned, built, opened.


2 posted on 04/01/2021 1:42:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: shotgun

In Washington...

Earthquakes, subduction zone, huge cold war nuclear Superfund site...

That Washington?


3 posted on 04/01/2021 1:47:18 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Sure, why should any of that be an issue for constructing a new nuclear power plant?

This is the problem we’ve faced with nuclear power in America: every time somebody wants to build one, an army of people show up saying “Okay fine, but you can’t build it HERE”. There is no perfect site for construction. Each has its own set of challenges that need to be covered in the design. But there are very few places on Earth you can’t safely operate a properly designed nuclear power plant. And we need them badly.

The alternative is to sit back and hope solar and wind can do enough with battery storage. It probably can’t. So we need something to handle base load. Nuclear is our best option for true energy independence.


4 posted on 04/01/2021 1:51:06 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Yes, that Washington.


5 posted on 04/01/2021 1:51:39 PM PDT by shotgun (welfare)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Sounds like their going to build them on the same site as the now terminated WPPSS Plants 1 & 4. Should be able to take advantage of the massive concrete foundations that were pours for the original reactor buildings.

Being located next to Plant 2, now called Columbia Generating Station, this plant will be like a 1/12 scale model based upon power output.


6 posted on 04/01/2021 1:55:14 PM PDT by shotgun (welfare)
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To: a fool in paradise

China gets their nuclear power plants done in 5-7 years from construction start to plant operation. But they don’t coddle the environmentalist wackos like we do. And they don’t wrap endless red tape around every single step. They make a decision to do it and they do it.

This is why they’re beating us.


7 posted on 04/01/2021 1:55:28 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Thorium molten fluoride


8 posted on 04/01/2021 1:55:28 PM PDT by Michigan Bowhunter
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To: a fool in paradise

“...I’ve previously seen estimates of 20-30 years
to get a nuclear reactor in America planned, built, opened...”
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There are two under construction right now in Georgia.


9 posted on 04/01/2021 1:58:48 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

“Sure, why should any of that be an issue for constructing a new nuclear power plant?”

I’m sorta surprized Washington State went for it actually.


10 posted on 04/01/2021 2:02:49 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: shotgun

ping
11 posted on 04/01/2021 2:03:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Clutch Martin

You’re thinking of western Washington. Eastern Washington is one of the least disaster prone areas in the country. No earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, etc.


12 posted on 04/01/2021 2:12:30 PM PDT by fluffy
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To: shotgun

Good news, and while you’re at it build more Tridents.


13 posted on 04/01/2021 2:15:32 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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Our last disaster we had here in Eastern Washington was when elected Jay Inlsee to Congress 1992. He was quickly voted out in 1994 and then ran back to Bainbridge Island until he was able to get re-elected to a retiring democrat’s seat for another 6 terms and now is our idiotic governor.


14 posted on 04/01/2021 2:16:39 PM PDT by shotgun (welfare)
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To: A Navy Vet

We don’t build the Tridents over here, we just take their decommissioned reactors out in the desert and bury them.


15 posted on 04/01/2021 2:18:05 PM PDT by shotgun (welfare)
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To: shotgun

You beat me to it. That whoops fiasco can now be turned to use instead of a total waste.


16 posted on 04/01/2021 2:20:14 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

I have never completely understood why the Greens fight so hard against nukes. Nuclear power generation facilities encompass many of the things that those woke idiots scream about ie:

- small footprint
- they don’t kill birds
- they are quiet
- they produce far more power than anything else

I guess I should chalk it up to the fact that most leftists are intellectually divorced from reality.


17 posted on 04/01/2021 2:23:45 PM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamelToe are not my leaders.)
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To: shotgun

Where are they built, if any nowadays?


18 posted on 04/01/2021 2:34:33 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: ByteMercenary; dfwgator; max americana

Well, sometimes the water feed valve gets stuck and the water is almost up to the steam lines (yeah, silly, I know).

We gotta get rid of that water!

This one says the water level is high!

This one says it’s low!

Are you filming?

Probably find this VHS as their source of information. Well, it had the Toyota guy, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemYBeT4aQY

“O.K., we’re off the line; disconnected from the grid”

LOL - who wrote that? (guess they had to explain it for the audience LOL)


19 posted on 04/01/2021 2:38:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: A Navy Vet

Aren’t they built on Groton Connecticut?


20 posted on 04/01/2021 2:39:01 PM PDT by shotgun (welfare)
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