Coal power plant developers scouting Wiscasset (site of the former Maine Yankee nuclear plant)

ByRod Adams

According to an article in MaineToday.com titled Wiscasset scouted for power plant, there are some power plant developers that are interested in building a coal-fired power plant in Wiscasset, Maine, on the site where the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant (now completely decommissioned) used to be.

The site has a number of advantages for a power plant, which are detailed in the article. For some odd reason, however, the article did not even mention the possibility that someone might think about building a new nuclear plant there. Since MaineToday.com accepts comments for registered users, I signed up and then made a comment suggesting that the best and highest use of the former Maine Yankee site is a new nuclear power plant.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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