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Chicago Buys Meaningless Carbon Credits – Refurbishing Zion Would Be a Better Investment With Real Climate Payoffs
ByRod Adams March 22, 2009December 15, 2022

…ines and get it back in the air. The main difference is that a refurbished Zion would produce low cost, emission free electricity with potential benefits to the state measured in multi hundreds of millions of dollars every year. (2000 Mwe x 8000 operating hours per year x $40-80 MW-hour wholesale value of electricity = $640-1280 million dollars per year.) Throw in a massive quantity of emission credits from a truly new source of electricity and yo…

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Atomic Abundance | Atomic Advocacy | Nuclear Communications | The Atomic Show Podcast

Atomic Show #340 – Zion Lights, Author of “Energy is Life”
ByRod Adams March 28, 2026March 28, 2026

Energy is Life begins with an alternative timeline – Zion Lights describes what her life would be like if her parents had not made the decision to emigrate from their village in India to become factor workers in the burgeoning Manchester manufacturing area before she was born. It’s a sobering and enlightening depiction of the daily struggle for sustenance and survival in a place that is plagued with dire energy poverty. During her education and e…

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Fossil fuel competition | New Nuclear

Rowe states that merchant power generators cannot make long term investments
ByRod Adams November 10, 2011July 14, 2020

…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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Discussing Zion Versus Wind Turbines for Illinois
ByRod Adams March 14, 2009December 15, 2022

…Nancy Thorner of Lake Bluff has written a letter to the editor of the Daily Herald to tell them she would rather have a restarted Zion Nuclear Plant in her backyard than accept several proposed wind turbines that would produce just a tiny fraction of the power – if the wind blows from the right direction at the right velocity….

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Markey is lying. The AP1000 design certification has been anything but “fast tracked”
ByRod Adams January 7, 2012July 5, 2020

…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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The Atomic Show #097 – Report from ANS Winter Meeting with John Wheeler and Kelly Taylor
ByRod Adams June 18, 2008July 20, 2020

…, 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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What do you do with the waste? – Kirk Sorensen’s answers
ByRod Adams October 13, 2011July 1, 2020

…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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Unfriending Exelon – I take back all of the positive articles I have written about the company
ByRod Adams February 5, 2009July 20, 2020

…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…

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Who fights energy abundance? Why?
ByRod Adams November 7, 2014July 14, 2020

…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…

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Is there a conspiracy against nuclear energy?
ByRod Adams November 14, 2020June 2, 2025

…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 January 26, 2009December 15, 2022

…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 November 27, 2016July 4, 2020

…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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