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Fossil fuel competition | Natural Gas | Nuclear Cost Data | Politics of Nuclear Energy

John Rowe wants everyone (else) to buy natural gas
ByRod Adams November 1, 2011July 14, 2020

…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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Is the Effort to Shut Down Vermont Yankee a Modern Day Witch Hunt?
ByRod Adams January 4, 2010December 15, 2022

…g at a higher price. Kit P Just so you know Rod, Browns Ferry is a BWR and Zion is a PWR. Replacing SG is a huge cost difference. Rod Adams Kit – I realize that there is a difference. In fact, the fact that the steam generators at Zion needed replacement is part of the reason that the plant was – logically enough at the time – shut down after a determination that the cost of doing the replacement might not be able to be recouped. In the mid 1990s,…

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Business of atomic energy | Guest Columns | Jim Little | Nuclear Performance

Nuclear’s Fork in the Road
ByGuest Author August 19, 2017July 3, 2020

…onomic impacts such as those being experienced in host communities such as Zion, Illinois, and Vernon, Vermont. From a national policy perspective, it directly impacts the largest source of carbon-free generation in the United States, currently 63% of the nation’s total carbon-free generation. Lastly, for the industry, the departure from nuclear is likely irreversible once made in the U.S. as the current talent and knowledge base is the result of…

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Aging nuclear | decommissioning | Nuclear Cost Data

One step to save nukes – stop their immediate destruction
ByRod Adams November 4, 2016July 13, 2020

…der to elevate market prices for the rest of their production facilities.) Zion In the US nuclear enterprise, there has not yet been a push from licensees to create a license condition that is somewhere between a full operating license — with all of its associated security, inspection and operating crew overhead — and a “possession only” condition where there is no need to maintain chemistry, protect paperwork integrity, or retain physical integri…

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It’s too easy to permanently close a nuclear power plant in the United States
ByRod Adams December 9, 2015July 4, 2020

…ent quite a bit of time trying to reopen a 1990s vintage decision to close Zion. I’ve also begun writing to question decisions that have already been made, but have not yet passed what I believe is the current point of no return–the act of submitting and accepting two official documents to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission certifying that the plant has been defueled and operations have ceased in order to amend the operating license to a possession…

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Fossil fuel competition | Natural Gas

Means, Motive and Opportunity – The Natural Gas Industry’s Price War Against the Nuclear Renaissance
ByRod Adams February 9, 2011August 4, 2020

…ut down. Nuclear plants that could have been refurbished (Maine Yankee and Zion) were shut down because their owners could not make the numbers work in competition with $1.80 per million BTU gas, especially in the face of uncertainty about the license renewal process. A critical look at the economic history of the US over the past 15 years would show most observers that it was a huge mistake to halt the nuclear industry’s stirrings in the mid to l…

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Fossil fuel competition | International nuclear | New Nuclear

Fighting over fuels and markets – dumb & wasteful when we have essentially unlimited energy
ByRod Adams February 13, 2012July 4, 2020

…rom the arena of time.” Ahmadinejad’s speech in October of 2005 to an anti-Zionism conference included the following statement – translated from the original Farsi, of course: “This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.” The New York Times, despite having printed the more accurate piece linked to above, was the original source of the misquoted statement that has so often been repeated. That first misinformed story appeared…

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Fuel Comparisons | Politics of Nuclear Energy | Smoking Gun

Energy Supply Worries Are Over! Natural Gas Resource Estimate Increased by 3%!
ByRod Adams April 28, 2011August 8, 2023

…nique for at least a dozen years – since they first shut down the 2200 MWe Zion Nuclear Power Station. Exelon’s most recent technique for limiting supply is to talk down the importance of planning for the future and building new capacity. Their strategy does not take advantage of the lower construction costs available today as a result of low interest rates, high rates of unemployment and relatively low commodity prices enabled by temporarily low…

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Politics of Nuclear Energy

Nuclear fission can help solve George Monbiot’s environmentalist dilemma
ByRod Adams May 13, 2011July 6, 2020

…verdant national forests, hiking outings in places of absolute wonder like Zion Nation Park, sailing trips around the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia peninsula, but also include summer gatherings with neighbors in comfortable suburbs, family trips to beach houses, and visits to marvelous cities like Washington DC and Paris, France. I am well aware of the amount of energy required to produce steel, concrete and glass and the amount required to heat, c…

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Antinuclear activist | Atomic politics

Nonproliferation is a disguised antinuclear energy effort
ByRod Adams July 13, 2014July 11, 2020

…required in the US or France. Rod Adams One more thing, Brian. Being anti-Zionist has nothing to do with being anti-Semetic. The Zionist movement to resettle European Jews in Palestine, an area that had not been controlled by the Jews for a couple of thousand years, has all kinds of strange and not terribly admirable historical roots. poa I see Brian has contributed yet one more essay of empty blather. Unable to offer a sound argument, or buttres…

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Ivanpah Solar Thermal officially opens
ByRod Adams February 15, 2014July 11, 2020

…credit is not a loan and doesn’t have to be paid back. John Tucker What ? Zion ??? wasn’t recently shout down. That silliness is almost 20 years old. Recent shutdowns – they were on them immediately. They certainly made them unrepairable quickly/ switched them to storage facilities. Coal was mothballed more or less as gas replaced it the last few decades. We have been a vast over capacity of FF resources. In 2010 22 coal fired units were still un…

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Jackson County, Alabama Will Benefit from TVA's Bellefonte Site Announcement
ByRod Adams April 28, 2010July 17, 2020

…please ask them why they are not considering the possibility of restoring Zion like TVA restored Browns Ferry. It would require a significant investment, but I would bet that investment would be about 1/4 of the cost of building that amount of capacity from scratch. I would also bet that the project could be completed in several fewer years than a new plant. katana0182 (Dave) Couldn’t a decision to scrap Zion be considered an anti-competitive pra…

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