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Diablo Canyon workers and supporters rallying for action

…hat they could sell electricity for more without that base load available. Zion‘s owner is/was Com-Ed – an Exelon company [and now operator in reality of Ft. Calhoun NPP which is shutting down]. in the 90’s, before OPPD decided to build Nebraska City II, OPPD was building CCTG like daisies. At one management meeting I asked the wisdom building so many of these facilities with power prices of over $0.50 /kWh, how can you afford the cost of these fa…

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Nova’s “Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail”

…ome of the more widely quoted threats are mis-translations advanced by pro-zionist think tanks. Frankly, Charles, your attempt to paint me as anti-semitic is despicable, and dishonest. Unable to attribute any anti-semitic comments or stances to me, you resort to this vague and convoluted comment that contains falsehoods and insinuation, and little else. I suggest you get back to the drawing board with your argument. If you can’t do any better than…

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Vermont Yankee: Clean Kilowatt Cow That Deserves Saving

…t be surprised. That is the real reason that Commonwealth Edison shut down Zion in the 1990s. Rod Adams I hope that is the case. If so, the only way to get rid of the aggravation is to sell the plant and leave the state. If they continue on their present course and speed, Entergy is going to be involved in Vermont politics for a very long time, perhaps 60 years. Meredith Angwin This decision wasn’t union busting. VY and the IBEW were on good terms…

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How long before Wisconsin electricity customers regret loss of Kewaunee?

…to make a point on the topic of Exelon’s corporate strategy in relation to Zion and to NextEra/FPL owning Point Beach within overlapping planning zones. The situation could very well be that any efficiencies that NextEra could introduce at Kewaunee by already having a nuclear presence in that region would be of too little financial benefit to outweigh the pricing benefits they would get for their power sales from Point Beach by not having Kewaunee…

Cost of Money for Nuclear Projects – Effect of $880 Million Financing Fee – 30% Increase in Electrical Power Price

…mHopf Off topic: For what it’s worth Rod, it appears that the residents of Zion, IL agree with you about what should be done with the local plant. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-x-n-zion-power-plant-20101015,0,2370880.story Jeff Schmidt Does anybody have a good source of data on average energy prices ($/kWh) for the different types of currently deployed generation system? I ask, because $0.107/kWh sounds to me to be kind of expensive…

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John Rowe explains how Exelon’s self-interest is served by promoting natural gas

….com/2001/02/exelon-goes-first-pbmr.html He also ensured that the two unit Zion facility was destroyed rather than restored to operational status. There are lots of links on Atomic Insights about that particular example of greedy behavior. I hate it when people like Rowe pretend like they have no power or influence over the government’s stupid rules to establish renewable portfolio standards. Instead of just going along, why doesn’t he take the mo…

How much tritium leaked from Vermont Yankee before the leak was stopped?

…od reason to build new nuclear power plants or to restore the operation of Zion is solely based on what is good for his company. It is not based on the best interests of his customers or the people who have to breathe the output from the coal fired power plants that still provide 50% of the electricity consumed in the territories that his plants serve. We will always disagree on the continued use of coal. It is a dirty fuel that is fine when there…

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15 nation radiation cancer study used questionable data

…be quite valuable. Rod Adams @Bill Chaffee Exelon did not attempt to sell Zion. Duke did not attempt to sell Crystal River. Dominion marketed Kewaunee so quietly that I never knew it was for sale. Entergy made very little effort to sell Vermont Yankee. Notice any pattern there? John Tucker What are you suggesting EL follow up?. A working real world tested mechanism for low dose radiation induced cancer ?? Not that after over 40 years, enough time…

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Steam generators are an option, not a necessity

…. Rod, shutting the plant down makes as much sense as it made to shut down Zion, which is to say, it didn’t. At that time, I, too, was working in Regulatory Affairs (i.e., Generic Licensing) and had license renewal, on the one hand, and decommissioning, on the other, as areas of responsibility. Working with accounting folks, I learned that these decisions essentially hinge on the assumed forward-going price of electricity. Since that’s anybody’s g…

Twitter conversation about energy sources and free market
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Twitter conversation about energy sources and free market

…rward with decommissioning an already built and formerly licensed plant at Zion whose two units ran for less than 25 years before they were shut down – initially to teach a recalcitrant union a lesson. The reason for the press to decommission is to make sure that Zion‘s production never gets introduced into the market because the shift in supply versus demand would lower prices for the output of all of the other plants in Exelon’s fleet. If the re…

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Clean energy, sustainable energy – both terms include nuclear energy

…on of the Jews. His ideology was Pan-Arabism (a kind of Arab equivalent of Zionism, only less religious and more racist), and so his greatest enemy was the Persians in Iran, not the Jews in Israel. The problem with Pan-Arabism is that the individual tribes, countries, or whatever organization units they are using are always going to squabble and maneuver to get the biggest piece of the pie, and Hussein’s squabbling had caused too much concern with…

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Sad-ending story of EBR-II told by three of its pioneers

…Rod Adams @Ioannes Criticizing Israel is NOT equal to being anti-Semitic. Zionism is not equivalent to Judaism. The Iranian students that took over the American Embassy might have had some associations with the revolutionary government, but they were not a government agency. There is no proof that they were working under orders of the government. They did, unlike fringe groups in many of our allied countries, free all of their hostages. They also…

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