Posted on 10/14/2015 6:00:42 AM PDT by thackney
The owners of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth have announced that they will close the plant by June 2019.
Entergy Corp. said Tuesday it is closing the only nuclear power plant in Massachusetts because of "poor market conditions, reduced revenues and increased operational costs."...
...The plant needs millions of dollars in safety improvements.
The plant was relicensed in 2012 for 20 years....
(Excerpt) Read more at pennenergy.com ...
Massachusetts nuclear plant back online after upgrades
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/elp/2015/05/massachusetts-nuclear-plant-back-online-after-upgrades.html
May 26, 2015
The only nuclear power plant in Massachusetts is back on line after a $70 million, monthlong, refueling and maintenance project....
The plant’s 600 employees as well as more than 1,000 workers brought in specifically to work on the project spent 35 days upgrading, replacing, overhauling and inspecting hundreds of pieces of equipment and also replaced the fuel in the reactor....
More political bullship. They would rather have you freeze in the dark then use the evil nuclear. Except we must give Iran nuclear.
I hate marxists. They are out for our death and I am not willing to go silently into the night.
Shut ‘er down. Burn coal. It’s also cheaper.
“The plant needs millions of dollars in safety improvements”
More likely the Greenies have forced Big Government to impose unneeded ‘safety improvements’ in order to speed to shut down.
Back during the “Arab Oil Embargo” of the early 70’s, there were plenty of bumper stickers here in the South that said “Drive 80 and Freeze a Yankee.”
Forty years later, it looks like the Yankees are going to freeze themselves without any assistance from us.
The interesting thing is that the cost of closure of these plants is completely covered by the federal government.
For all the hype about power plant construction, atomic energy in particular is a HUGE cash grab of taxpayer billions by crony capitalists.
If the power generation industry had to make their own capital investment to provide a return for their stockholders, and the 0bama "kill private enterprise and energy independence at all cost" agenda was shut down by the Republican Congress, these corporations would be building coal-fired plants right now. Coal is CHEAP and easy to move. We can't have that. No way.
Burn coal? The liberals will fight tooth and nail about burning more coal, even if more economical.
Of course the liberals fight tooth and nail against building new nuclear plants also.
They (environmental extremists) are against burning oil for heat because it “pollutes the environment”
They are against at least drilling for natural gas because it “pollutes the environment”.
They are against nuclear energy because it “pollutes the environment”.
They are against burning coal because it “pollutes the environment”.
There have been reports that wind turbines kill birds and solar panels are useless in the long winters so...
Exactly how do these nutjobs expect to survive the cold northeast winters? By lighting their farts on fire? I hear tofu can give you gas but still...
It’s like they not only despise human progress because it’s “bad for the planet” but it’s almost as if they have a self loathing, an unfounded guilt for their own existence. They might actually be happy if they died of exposure to the cold. Then they could say their death was meaningful. Maybe.
I honestly can’t figure these people out. It’s like they don’t think past the cause of the day.
Well said. They can’t think past the liberal cause of the day.
They can’t think critically or do cost / benefit analyses of the impact of their ideas. They get fixated on saving the planet and global warming, and have no clue of the costs and benefits of what they propose to do.
Or another way to look at it, they are looking at things through the minds of a child or an adolescent.
That is not accurate.
Before a nuclear power plant begins operations, the licensee must establish or obtain a financial mechanism – such as a trust fund or a guarantee from its parent company – to ensure there will be sufficient money to pay for the ultimate decommissioning of the facility. Each nuclear power plant licensee must report to the NRC every two years the status of its decommissioning funding for each reactor or share of a reactor that it owns. The report must estimate the minimum amount needed for decommissioning by using the formulas found in 10 CFR 50.75(c). Licensees may alternatively determine a site-specific funding estimate, provided that amount is greater than the generic decommissioning estimate.
Source: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/decommissioning.html#funds
You think it really follows that process?
If you believe that, then you also believe that they fine and imprison those that finance or materially support terrorism.
Do you have any evidence that they don't follow the process, or are you just speculating?
Google search Humbolt Bay.
TEXACO ran seismic to evaluate that trend in the 80’s but it never went anywhere.
You forgot they are also even against burning wood.
May all LIBs enjoy their cold winters without heat. Idiots.
Indeed I did. They are against so many forms of energy generation it's difficult to remember them all.
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