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For Sale – Nuclear Power Plant for Less Than $1500 per Kilowatt That Can Be Running In 5 years

ByRod Adams

…I don’t have all the facts or all of the cost figures needed to re-license Zion at this point, but from what I do know, the Zion decommissioning decision doesn’t make any sense to me. Hat tip to Nancy Thorner and David Hollein, who both remain dedicated to the mission of asking someone to please operate the currently idle nuclear power plant that has been in their figurative backyard for so many years. I also want to thank the Exelon spokesman who…

Public Versus Private Power – It Is Time To Reopen The Discussion

ByRod Adams

…ent”) shutdown. I have written on this issue before in a post titled Could Zion be the Next Browns Ferry. Since that time, I have continued to probe and find additional sources that tell me that restoring Zion would not be terribly difficult from a technical point of view. It would not be “cheap”, but for something in the general neighborhood of $1-5 billion dollars, the plant could become a fully licensed and operable greenhouse gas emission-free…

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Rowe states that merchant power generators cannot make long term investments

ByRod Adams

…eted, 2100 MWe Zion nuclear power station, ” Commonwealth Edison shut down Zion in 1996 at the end of the plant’s useful life. While well maintained nuke plants are economically viable for 60 year today, this is not the case for Zion. “In places like California ” The problem in 2000/2001 has many factors. One factor is that California was very slow in issuing permits for new CCGT to replace old SSGT. Merchant power plants had all the investment th…

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Markey is lying. The AP1000 design certification has been anything but “fast tracked”

ByRod Adams

…nced. Rowe had nothing to do with it. I do not know anyone who thinks that Zion can be refurbished after 15 years. The Zion nuclear station was permanently closed in February 1998. It completed the transfer of its nuclear fuel to the spent fuel pools in March 1998. John Rowe became the CEO of Commonwealth Edison in March 1998. At least three times during his tenure, people within his company suggested that it would be worthwhile to investigate the…

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What do you do with the waste? – Kirk Sorensen’s answers

ByRod Adams

…rk published on Atomic Insights regarding Exelon’s decision to destroy the Zion Nuclear power station rather than allowing it to compete against existing power plants to increase the supply and decrease the price of electricity. On October 8, 2011, Hancock published a column titled State should pull plug on Constellation-Exelon deal that explored whether or not it would be beneficial for Marylanders to allow a company like Exelon to own a dominant…

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The Atomic Show #097 – Report from ANS Winter Meeting with John Wheeler and Kelly Taylor

ByRod Adams

…, 2008 ANS Annual Meeting, job opportunities, industry involvement in ANS, Zion Nuclear Power Plant John Wheeler, Kelly Taylor and I talked about workforce development and John’s impressions from the American Nuclear Society Annual meeting, recently held in Anaheim, California. With regard to workforce development we chatted about the opportunities that the Nuclear Renaissance will bring for people that like math and science, hands on applications…

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Unfriending Exelon – I take back all of the positive articles I have written about the company

ByRod Adams

…o grow, but it actually owns 19 nuclear power plants with two units at the Zion site that are shuttered with no good technical reason. Though I am still willing to be proved wrong, it appears to me that Exelon could, with the investment of something less than $2 billion, add an additional 2200 MWe of baseload power that could operate for something close to 1.76 cents per kilowatt hour for at least another 25-30 years. Taken in isolation, that inve…

Who fights energy abundance? Why?

ByRod Adams

…ed units? If the limiting of production was the primary reason for closing Zion, it may have made more sense at that time to close some of the older coal plants (since sold to NRG, I believe). The closing of Zion has been explained to me by former employees of that site and I still don’t understand it. Eino His bread is buttered by oil interests in his home state of Oklahoma. If he wasn’t there, maybe the oil interests would simply find another bo…

Is there a conspiracy against nuclear energy?

ByRod Adams

…o prevent the possibility that others will “get it.” I’m not sure how to overcome this obstacle to developing clean, abundant, reliable and affordable power, but I am hoping that increased recognition will help. Note: I composed this as a comment in response to Zion Light’s excellent, heartfelt Medium post titled “Nuclear and nature: the love story no one wants to tell“. I published it as a comment there, but decided to share it here as well. Upda…

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The Atomic Show #124 – Barton, Wheeler, Sorensen – Clean Atomic Energy

ByRod Adams

…cts of the laws of supply and demand, the difference in economic computations between competitive electricity suppliers and monopoly utility companies, and the reasons why restarting Zion might make sense (or not.) Hope you enjoy the show. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:23 — 30.0MB) Subscribe: RSS…

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Maria Korsnick describes nuclear industry strategy under incoming Trump Administration

ByRod Adams

…hat could have been mothballed until there was sufficient need. “Since the Zion plant was deactivated in 1998, the town has struggled to make up for taxes that were lost. Zion‘s mayor has said the plant paid millions in taxes annually while it operated but now pays virtually nothing.” Nuclear plants pay for good schools in an area by the taxes they pay. Eino POA: You live close to a big windfarm. Do you see a lot of people working at that windfarm…

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John Rowe wants everyone (else) to buy natural gas

ByRod Adams

…ery disrespectful manner. For example, Rowe has nothing to do with closing Zion which was not the first nuke to close early. Rod Adams Rowe may not have had anything to do with closing Zion, but that decision is NOT the one that I have continued to criticize. The decision that is wrong today – and that has been wrong for at least 10 years – is the continuing decision to KEEP it closed. At the time that Zion was closed, the price of natural gas was…

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