Company eyes two Texas sites for new nuclear plant

Assoociated Press ^ | 6/29/2007 | AP

[P-40]

HOUSTON - Exelon Nuclear has identified two possible sites in southeast Texas for a new nuclear power plant.

The Illinois-based company is preparing a federal application to build and operate a new plant. Officials said the company hasn't committed to building a plant, but it expects to submit the project application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November of 2008.

The favored prospective site is about 10 miles south of Collegeport in Matagorda County. A secondary site is about 20 miles south of Victoria in Victoria County.

Matagorda County judge Nate McDonald said the project would be welcome. The county is already home to the South Texas Project, a nuclear power plant near Bay City operated by a consortium of energy companies.

The state's other existing nuclear power plant is Comanche Peak, about 80 miles southwest of Dallas.

[P-40]

Kind of funny how people quite griping about our building new nuclear plants out this way after TXU gave up on building a dozen or so coal plants. :)

[WOSG]

Good news!!! Texas can be a leading energy supplier in the 21st century with nuclear power!

[mkjessup]

Now the bad news, the plant will be constructed using illegal immigrant labor. LOL

[Rick_Michael]

This can’t be a one-state thing...more states must be getting through the envirowacko barriers.

[P-40]

I think the Governor’s ‘fast tracking’ the approval of twelve new coals plants helped. :)

[Jedidah]

It’s tiresome how you one-issue yokels try to derail every intelligent discussion.

[P-40]

Just so long as it is not Brown & Root. :)

[Hydroshock]

It appears TX has a glowing future in energy production.

[Cowboy Bob]

Maybe they can build them both in Austin.

[LibKill]

Good!

There is only so much coal. And oil just hit 70+ dollars per barrel.

Nukes forever, liberals never!

[TRY ONE]

Wind & Solar are alright....but Nuks do it all night! ........ Go Nuks!

[P-40]

Texas can be a leading energy supplier in the 21st century with nuclear power!

I think Texas is really striving to be a major energy provider. If you don't mind buying your energy from coal, we can sell you that. Want nuclear as a source? We can do that. Wind? You bet. Solar? Should be starting that soon also...just have some power line sharing issues to work out.

[Jedidah]

Texas has been a major energy supplier since Spindletop blew more than 106 years ago.

[LibKill]

I think Texas is really striving to be a major energy provider. If you don't mind buying your energy from coal, we can sell you that. Want nuclear as a source? We can do that. Wind? You bet. Solar? Should be starting that soon also...just have some power line sharing issues to work out.

Well said! We can do it all here in Texas. You want solar/wind-powered/biomass/coal/natural gas/oil-fired/nuclear power plants?

You got it, if you want to pay the toll.

[P-40]

True. And it is past time for a new Spindletop to blow again.

[LibKill]

it is past time for a new Spindletop to blow again.

I work within spitting distance of Spindletop.

We have scientists/engineers working on energy.

They are not always practical, but who knows what will come of this research?

At the very least they are searching for new sources/methods of energy. They are NOT trying to shut civilization down as so many others are.

[P-40]

They are NOT trying to shut civilization down as so many others are.

At and least the Texas government will work with you on these new sources, not against you.

[LibKill]

At and least the Texas government will work with you on these new sources, not against you.

You are right and then some. Texas politicians seem to understand that the oil ran out in Texas (not all the way but mostly) and that some day there may be NO foreign oil to stock our refineries.

They, and my own little workplace, are working on alternatives.

I only wish we could turn all of the bloviating hot air in DC into electricity.

Problem solved!

[P-40]

Did you get to see Texas Congressman Joe Barton ripping Al Gore a new one at the House Hearing On Climate Change? It was fun to listen to him list off how many of Gore’s ‘Earth saving ideas’ we’ve started on years ago. :)

[The South Texan]

Good. We are leading the way in the wind energy and now we can do it with nuclear. I say we do pretty good down here for a state with a bunch backward hicks. That’s what the folks in the Northeast and Californiastan say about us as they sit in the dark during rolling blackouts in the middle of the summer while we here in Texas sit in our A/C homes at are computers laughing at them calling us that.