…d campaign. We’re getting closer to having a home grown company that takes on the hydrocarbon industry head on; Bruce Power is at least from North America. Entergy, Exelon, Next Era, Dominion, SCANA and Southern Company – let’s see what you can do to compete with this!…
…have an electrical production cost of about 8 cents per kWh. The stock of Exelon (EXC), owner of more than 17 GW of nuclear power capacity in the United States, finished its first full month of trading at more than US$66 per share, up more than 15% since the beginning of the month. The average total production cost of the nuclear plants in its fleet is less than 2.3 cents per kWh. The opposition can and will protest loudly. However, when you comb…
…to Louisiana Energy Services, a consortium that includes URENCO, Entergy, Exelon, and Duke Power, for their proposed National Enrichment Facility to be sited in Eunice, New Mexico. The NRC, by rule, has approximately 10 days to issue the final license. The facility will use the gas centrifuge technology that URENCO, which itself is a consortium that includes a number of European countries and companies, has been using in its Dutch facility to pro…
…and how rarely you see ads from GE about nuclear energy or from Dominion, Exelon, or Entergy. Ads provide the bread and butter for commercial media. Journalists might be willing to bite the hands that feed them, but publishers and editors rarely support attacking major contributors to their bottom lines. Just in case you think it is not fair of me to point out the media’s money motive, think about how nuclear professionals feel every time they ar…
…with revenues of more than $400 million USD. As I illustrated in BP versus Exelon, BP’s solar business accounted for about 0.14% of its total revenues in 2004; petroleum related portions of the business accounted for almost all of the other 99.86%. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Luke 12:34) If BP is really ready to think outside the barrel, its leaders need to invest in a fossil fuel alternative that already supplies…
…e it was made. In 2012, both San Onofre and Vermont Yankee were operating. Exelon had already announced that Oyster Creek would be closed in 2019, but the plant was still operating in 2012 so the model includes its output all the way through 2030. The authors can be forgiven for assuming that Pilgrim and Fitzpatrick would continue operating through 2030; Entergy had not yet announced their closure by the time that the paper was submitted for peer…
…been the only major foreign investor in the project since about 2002 when Exelon, the largest nuclear utility in the United States, ended its participation. A couple of months ago, however, I came across some information indicating that Westinghouse was playing a significant role in the final development and commercialization of the PBMR. That fact confused me a bit until I realized that Westinghouse, the pioneer in the Pressurized Water Reactor…
…lifornia Energy Commission, Carlyle Capital Markets Inc., Citigroup, CMEA Capital, Deutsche Bank, Duke Energy, DuPont Biofuels, EDF Inc., Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Exelon Corporation, GE Energy Financial Services, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hartford Financial Services Group, Hunt Power, L.P., J.P. Morgan…
…nMobile’s 2009 revenue of $440 billion works out to $37 billion per month. Exelon, the operator of 17 nuclear power plants, has a market capitalization of just $26 billion.) Maybe donations from people associated with the enormous revenue stream from fossil fuel sales is the reason why “non-profit” groups like NIRS can af ford to pay people like Mariotte for decades worth of non productive work fighting the development of a competitive and emissio…
…itium that was found in groundwater on the plant site at Braidwood, one of Exelon’s nuclear facilities. The plant operator determined that the source of tritium was from a a leaking discharge pipe that normally carries non radioactive circulating water back to the Kankakee River. That same discharge pipe is also used for small, planned, allowed discharges of purified primary coolant water that contains a certain amount of tritium. Aside: Tritium i…
…e number of new nuclear plants that have been proposed for the state. TXU, Exelon, NRG and Amarillo Power have all proposed major new nuclear power plant projects in Texas, already the home of 4 of the US’s largest operating nuclear power plants. The main current fuel for electrical power production in the state is natural gas, with coal and nuclear sharing most of the remaining market. Recent activity against a proposal by TXU to build 11 large c…
…stry like Chris Crane of NRG, Mayo Shattuck of Constellation, John Rowe of Exelon, and Armando Olivera of FPL who might otherwise be talking about their companies’ exciting projects to build new nuclear power plants. Those electric power industry decision makers, however, have announced that their nuclear construction plans are on hold while they take a look at this new shiny object called cheap natural gas. (They don’t actually phrase it that way…
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