Posted on 08/27/2024 7:55:25 PM PDT by buwaya
Michigan is trying to restore a decommissioned nuclear power plant (Palisades, Van Buren County MI) to operation. The State forced its decommissioning in 2022. Now it wants to start it up again.
This is of a piece with Gavin Newsome cancelling the decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, originally scheduled for 2025.
"The federal government and the state of Michigan are spending nearly $2 billion to restart the reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan. When it reopens, Palisades will become the first decommissioned nuclear plant anywhere to be put back to work.
Driving the rethink: soaring demand for electricity from AI server farms, and billions on offer in state and federal loans and tax subsidies for nuclear energy in infrastructure and green power investment programs. Data centers alone are projected to account for 8% of U.S. electricity demand by 2030, up from around 3% in 2022, according to an April report by Goldman Sachs. "
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
What I would like to see is an open declaration of repentance, and acts of penance. Crawling up cathedral steps on bloody knees for instance.
Seppuku ...
Trillion$$ wasted, and this manufactured ‘crisis’ is prompting both relicensing and restarting of decommissioned antique nuclear reactor power plants rather than construction of new technology reactors across the country.
Think hard about that.
Full disclosure: I am not anti-nuclear.
I am anti-stupid.
As long as they are refurbishing and upgrading, would it be possible to use thorium?
Doing both will probably be required. Fire up any recently closed ones and revive the ones slated for shutdown, start the process of building new ones. Get SMRs on the road while we’re at it.
Thorium would require a very different design.
Maybe some designated unit sites could be reused. I’m thinking Humboldt Bay or San Onofre or Rancho Seco.
We can build nuke plants that can fit on a railroad car and light up a city. We just don’t want to.
Cheaper to restart an old nuke plant.
So,it’s true what what that “West Side story” song said...
Everything’s free in America,
everything’s free in America.
No wonder so many illegals are coming to America.
It was worth asking...
I could use a Mr. Fission in my car...
Andrew “nipple rings” Cuomo and one Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2015 conspired to close New York’s Indian Point nuclear plant, which supplied 30% of (zero carbon) baseload power to NY City and downstate NY. It finally ceased operations in April 2021
It was originally built in 1961 and operated continuously without any problems.
It was fully depreciated and produced electricity for under 3 cents per KWH
Just for reference - Average charge to NY Consumers is 28-30 cents/KWH
Exactly so.
I think its the fashion these days to have a “truth and reconciliation commission” to wipe away the sins of the guilty.
This is why the stupid Germans made sure to dynamite theirs.
I’d agree with that.
My pet theory is that the shift in attitude towards nuclear reflects a changing of the guard on the left. It was dogmatic for leftists to oppose nuclear during the Cold War as a way to offset the West’s advantages against the USSR. They held that position for decades, to the point where it was reflexive. But nowadays there’s no benefit to the left in opposing nuclear, so that position is fading away. I’ll bet if you took a poll you’d find much less anti-nuclear feeling among young leftists. They’ve moved on to other things like the homo agenda. That’s the new battlefront.
But... But, you just plug things in and they go, right liberals?
Let's not for get Shorham on Long Island. Six billion dollars to build then remove the plant, charged back to LILCO customers. LILCO paid Philadelphia Power $50 million to take the nuclear fuel it needed for its own use.
Another Cuomo nuclear screw-job on NY'ers - this time it was Mario.
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