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Posted on 11/22/2024 8:02:08 AM PST by DallasBiff
Texas is often considered the energy capital of the U.S. – but usually that means oil and gas. Nuclear power has a much smaller presence in the state, but Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to change that.
This week the governor’s office and the Public Utility Commission released a report from the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group, outlining plans to bolster nuclear power production in the state. Recommendations include creating incentives programs and workforce training to build up the state’s infrastructure and power generating capacity.
Reed Clay, president of Texas Nuclear Alliance, an industry group, joined Texas Standard to talk about the report and the future of nuclear power in Texas. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.
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Like Iran-don’t they have plenty of oil?
Sounds like a plan to help build more data centers and attract tech bros. Skynet never had it so easy.
Texas and Alabama and other energy rich states should use our own natural gas to run the power plants. The Dims will never be satisfied with any dependable energy. They'll turn against nuclear again as soon as we all start depending on it. So each of the red states need to have an energy footing to be able to tell the Dims to kiss our harry butts the next time the Dims are in the WH and want to make energy hard to come by and too expensive to use.
Yes, please.
Texas did use natural gas for power plants. It’s why we had all those problems and lost power in the Snowpocalypse a couple years back - it got so cold that natural gas could not be piped.
Uranium can be gotten from Australia. Reprocessing our thousands of tons of spent fuel rods will get us fissile materials for centuries. We could also build thorium reactors. which can be fueled by our own thorium.
Energy supply for the future is not a one size fits all sort of thing. In some cases nuclear is a viable option, solar in others, wind in some, COAL in many and those pillars should be used in the best way possible for the given situation and location. IMHO
“Water, water, water. Texas needs water.
Sounds like a plan to help build more data centers and attract tech bros. Skynet never had it so easy.”
Texas doesn’t need to build nuclear power plants on rivers and lakes, they can cool nuclear reactors using ocean water from the Gulf of Mexico.
Nuclear power plants can power desalination plants during off-peak demand hours. They can also be used to generate hydrogen. which is a proposed fuel of the future.
Natural gas generating plants are much cheaper and go up much quicker, cheaper maintenance, much less hazardous long term.
Indeed, we of Texas already do. See the South Texas Project reactor complex that’s been operating for decades now.
Just like Trump made the U.S. energy independent again, the goal of each state should be to make the state energy independent too (if possible). And us citizens should be energy independent too if possible. (Which is the reason I have enough solar to provide 80% of my power in my all-electric home, including charging our EV which we do most of our driving in.)
Other countries and the American left have made it clear that they're going to use energy policies to control us as much as they can. The solution to that is for each of us to be as energy independent as we can, at each level we can (residential, state, nation).
Yes
“ Water, water, water. Texas needs water.”
A couple of Gulf desalination facilities should help. And run a pipeline from the Missouri River down to Texas. The Missouri always floods. The water can be used for North Texas farming.
modular (small scale) nuclear, I think.
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