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US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World
US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World The United States’ 92 nuclear reactors currently in operation have a mean age of 41.6 years, the third oldest in the world. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, the only nuclear fleets that are older are those of Switzerland (46.3 years) and Belgium (42.3 years). Also older are […]
The U.S. May Soon Have the World’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plants
The U.S. May Soon Have the World’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plants Preface. This is nuts. Sea level rise threatens many nuclear power plants and drought has shut plants down since they need cooling to operate. As nuclear reactor age, they require more intensive monitoring and preventive maintenance to operate safely. But reactor owners have not […]
Nuclear reactor issues
Nuclear reactor issues Preface. There are half a dozen articles below. Although safety and disposal of nuclear waste ought to be the main reasons why no more plants should be built, what will really stop them isbecause it takes years to get permits and $8.5–$20 billion in capital must be raised for a new 3400 […]
Russian Sea Monsters: Rudderless Reactors on the High Seas
Russian Sea Monsters: Rudderless Reactors on the High Seas Did you hear the one about the Exxon Valdez, Fuku-Chernobyl, Gulf Oil Titanic? Yeah: Russia floated two nuclear reactors on a bargeto power oil rigs in the Arctic Ocean and nothing went wrong! Unsatisfied with trouncing Japan at the Winter Olympics, 14 gold medals to four, […]
Nuclear Companies are Just Happy to be in There Somewhere and They’ll Gouge the Ratepayers to Get There
Nuclear Companies are Just Happy to be in There Somewhere and They’ll Gouge the Ratepayers to Get There Photo by Lennart Tange | CC BY 2.0 That teeth-jangling noise you can hear are the fingernails of nuclear power corporations scraping across window ledges in a last, desperate attempt to cling on. It’s a lost cause. […]
Nuclear Follies in the UK: in Search of High-Cost Power without Strategy at the Wrong Time
Nuclear Follies in the UK: in Search of High-Cost Power without Strategy at the Wrong Time Then there is the issue of long term predictions. It was the February 4 article in the Financial Times titled, “Nuclear Hazards: struggling industry aims for power surge,” that got our attention. There’s been so much going on in […]
Nuclear Reactors, Bankrupting Their Owners, Closing Early
Nuclear Reactors, Bankrupting Their Owners, Closing Early On January 22, FirstEnergy Corporation announced that its faulty and nearly-self-destructed Davis-Besse power reactor east of Toledo, Ohio, will be closed well before its license expires. But the shutdown is not because the reactor represents reckless endangerment of public health and safety. FirseEnergy was fine with that. No, […]
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335 This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high […]
Get Ready for a New Chernobyl in Ukraine
Get Ready for a New Chernobyl in Ukraine With the onset of winter and the increasing strain on Ukraine’s energy system, the threat of a new nuclear disaster in Central Europe is becoming more than just a theoretical danger. According to analysts from Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS), there is an 80% probability of […]
Does China’s Nuclear Boom Threaten a Global Catastrophe?
Does China’s Nuclear Boom Threaten a Global Catastrophe? “China shows the way to build nuclear reactors fast and cheap.” That was the bullish headline in a Forbes magazine article last week. It went on to praise the scale of the planned nuclear investment in China’s new Five-Year Plan that runs from 2016 to 2020. Under the plan the government is […]
Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years?
Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years? The nuclear industry in the United States has been at a standstill for several decades. After an extraordinary wave of construction in the 1960s and 1970s, the nuclear industry ground to a halt. A confluence of events killed off new construction, including high interest rates, cost overruns, […]
Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors
Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors It would sit in the icy waters of the Arctic, and provide a constant supply of electricity to a massive rig drilling for oil. They could be mass produced, potentially cutting the cost of drilling projects. The twist? The electricity on these floating power plants would […]
