Search Results for: zion

Is the Effort to Shut Down Vermont Yankee a Modern Day Witch Hunt?

ByRod Adams

…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,…

| |

One step to save nukes – stop their immediate destruction

ByRod Adams

…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…

| |

Energy Supply Worries Are Over! Natural Gas Resource Estimate Increased by 3%!

ByRod Adams

…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…

Means, Motive and Opportunity – The Natural Gas Industry’s Price War Against the Nuclear Renaissance
|

Means, Motive and Opportunity – The Natural Gas Industry’s Price War Against the Nuclear Renaissance

ByRod Adams

…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…

| | |

Nuclear’s Fork in the Road

ByGuest Author

…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…

It’s too easy to permanently close a nuclear power plant in the United States

ByRod Adams

…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…

Nuclear fission can help solve George Monbiot’s environmentalist dilemma

ByRod Adams

…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…

| |

Fighting over fuels and markets – dumb & wasteful when we have essentially unlimited energy

ByRod Adams

…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…

|

Nonproliferation is a disguised antinuclear energy effort

ByRod Adams

…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…

Ivanpah Solar Thermal officially opens

ByRod Adams

…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…

Jackson County, Alabama Will Benefit from TVA's Bellefonte Site Announcement

ByRod Adams

…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…

| |

Why haven’t major U.S. news outlets discussed the implications of Genie Energy’s potentially huge oil discovery in the Golan Heights?

ByRod Adams

…ed by Zionists. Attempts were made starting in 1891 to buy land there, and Zionist President Chaim Weizmann wrote to British Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1919 expressing designs for the region to form part of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. (Dr Weizmann wrote to oppose the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 by which Britain and France had agreed the carve up of the Ottoman Empire after the World War I. These imperial designs interfered with Zi…

End of content

End of content