Posted on 06/23/2025 7:18:38 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to develop and construct a zero-emission advanced nuclear power plant in Upstate New York to support a reliable and affordable electric grid, while providing the necessary zero-emission electricity to achieve a clean energy economy. State Sen. George Borrello would like that facility to be located in Dunkirk.
“Following reports that Governor Hochul has directed the New York Power Authority to build a nuclear power plant in Upstate New York, I support this commonsense approach to provide reliable, affordable clean energy in the form of nuclear power; however, I am calling on her to make the NRG power plant site in Dunkirk, NY one of the selected locations,” Borrello said.
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For anyone wondering, Dunkirk is halfway between Buffalo, NY and Erie, PA.
Upstate my ass. It’s in the western part of the State near Lake Erie. It’s less than 50 miles from Buffalo.
This is playing into her hands...
The other Great Lakes reactors are on the edge of Lake Ontario. Several are dated and due to come offline between 2029 and 2034.
Replacing one there instead of building a new one on Lake Erie would seem the better choice - infrastructure, security, etc. already in place.
What a Freaking Joke!
NY presents this story like they have a “shovel-ready” Nuke Plant Design all set to go.
By the time they go through all the environmental BS testing, surveys, public hearings, permits, etc., they may START construction by 2035 and finish by 2045.
A real garden spot. < /s>
About the same time frame as our train to nowhere here in CA.
Put it in the eastern side of the state where it's needed.
Believe or not, nuclear power plants use massive amounts of water!
It is needed to cool down the plant.
So they need to be build near reliable water source.
Great lakes, Hudson river,...
Yes, the problem with Nukes and anything in Ca are the lawyers and regulations. No shovel ready jobs anywhere in this environment.
In Phoenix, each downturn, they are redoing the walkway corners at intersections. Supposedly to make them even more wheelchair accessible than the previous version.
I was wondering about that massive waste of money, but then it ring me a bell.
These are the shovel ready jobs!
Wasting money on useless projects without a need to work the major regulatory and law obstacles.
NYPA was never able to operate Indian Point successfully.
I doubt they’ve gotten better since they sold the plant to Entergy.
“nuclear power plants use massive amounts of water”
Nukes don’t use large amounts of water they slightly heat large amounts of water and return it to the place they got it from. In a open cycle cooling system virtually none is lost to evaporation.
There is a vast difference between consumptive water use and non-consumptive water use.
Even cooling towers only lose 1% per 10F Delta T. Condensing at 80C cooling to 30C is only 5% losses.
Cooling ponds in a closed loop liquid system loose less than 2% to evaporation due to heat from the reactor the biggest loss is solar evaporation.
GEN III+ reactors can be dry cooled with air heat sinks.
My point was that it would probably be better to build the new one on the edge of Lake Ontario, near where the current ones are (infrastructure, staffing, logistics, security, etc.) instead of on Lake Erie.
Chautauqua County is indeed a garden spot.
Well, Palo Verde, the newest nuclear plant in operation in US and the largest in the US, uses approximately 72,000 acre-feet of treated wastewater annually for cooling.
That’s a pretty big reservoir of water emptied every year. Massive amount of water in my dictionary!
You can see the streams of steam rising from the plant cooling columns from far away!
Makes a lot of sense. The Dunkirk area is some beautiful country. Why mess up another area when you can do it where they already exist. Oswego is a great location already.
The ONLY reason this is happening is because BIG DATA is demanding that it happen. They want power for data centers not for average consumers.
Don’t hold your breath. This is NY.
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