Comment: Pro-Nuke Bunch will mine Southside and all of Virginia! Nuke power is too expensive and with the French involved, most of the profits will go back to France and the Canadian uranium mining companies will take most of their money back to Canada! No to Uranium mining! The NRC represents corporations so do not depend on them to report the real conditions of uranium milling or nuke plants! Oh, by the way, write to the senator and explain to him Nuke Plants are not CO2 free, he needs to study the problems of uranium mining!
By Ray Reed
Published: July 27, 2009
More than 300 people turned out in Lynchburg today to hear Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th District, tell why he doesn’t support the cap-and-trade energy bill that passed the House of Representatives about a month ago.
“The bill sets us on a track that I find not very compelling,“ Goodlatte said at the energy conference he sponsors once a year in the Sixth district.
The cap-and-trade bill now is pending in the U.S. Senate, and Goodlatte said the House-passed version would increase energy costs without lowering global temperatures very much.
Goodlatte said the best energy scenario is nuclear power — a line that won applause from the crowd at Central Virginia Community College. Nuclear technol-ogy is improving and it generates power without releasing carbon emissions, Goodlatte said.
Another speaker at the conference was Kristine Svinicki, a director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Svinicki said she expects new nuclear plant worldwide to increase electricity production by 10 percent.
In the U.S., Svinicki said the Department of Energy has forecast 10 new reactors will be built in the next couple of decades. Svinicki said one signal that nuclear power may be making a comeback in the U.S. came last week when Areva and Northrop Grumman shipbuilding broke ground on a plant to make nu-clear-power equipment in Newport News.
http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/energy_conference_draws_crowd_in_lynchburg/18017/
Goodlatte explains opposition to energy bill
http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/goodlatte_explains_opposition_to_energy_bill/18019/ By Ray Reed
Published: July 27, 2009
More than 300 people turned out in Lynchburg today to hear Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th District, tell why he doesn’t support the cap-and-trade energy bill that passed the House of Representatives about a month ago.
“The bill sets us on a track that I find not very compelling,“ Goodlatte said at the energy conference he sponsors once a year in the Sixth district.
The cap-and-trade bill now is pending in the U.S. Senate, and Goodlatte said the House-passed version would increase energy costs without lowering global temperatures very much.
Goodlatte said the best energy scenario is nuclear power — a line that won applause from the crowd at Central Virginia Community College. Nuclear technology is improving and it generates power without releasing carbon emissions, Goodlatte said.
Another speaker at the conference was Kristine Svinicki, a director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Svinicki said she expects new nuclear plant worldwide to increase electricity production by 10 percent.
In the U.S., Svinicki said the Department of Energy has forecast 10 new reactors will be built in the next couple of decades. Svinicki said one signal that nuclear power may be making a comeback in the U.S. came last week when Areva and Northrop Grumman shipbuilding broke ground on a plant to make nuclear-power equipment in Newport News.
By Ray Reed
Published: July 27, 2009
More than 300 people turned out in Lynchburg today to hear Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th District, tell why he doesn’t support the cap-and-trade energy bill that passed the House of Representatives about a month ago.
“The bill sets us on a track that I find not very compelling,“ Goodlatte said at the energy conference he sponsors once a year in the Sixth district.
The cap-and-trade bill now is pending in the U.S. Senate, and Goodlatte said the House-passed version would increase energy costs without lowering global temperatures very much.
Goodlatte said the best energy scenario is nuclear power — a line that won applause from the crowd at Central Virginia Community College. Nuclear technol-ogy is improving and it generates power without releasing carbon emissions, Goodlatte said.
Another speaker at the conference was Kristine Svinicki, a director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Svinicki said she expects new nuclear plant worldwide to increase electricity production by 10 percent.
In the U.S., Svinicki said the Department of Energy has forecast 10 new reactors will be built in the next couple of decades. Svinicki said one signal that nuclear power may be making a comeback in the U.S. came last week when Areva and Northrop Grumman shipbuilding broke ground on a plant to make nu-clear-power equipment in Newport News.
http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/energy_conference_draws_crowd_in_lynchburg/18017/
Goodlatte explains opposition to energy bill
http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/goodlatte_explains_opposition_to_energy_bill/18019/ By Ray Reed
Published: July 27, 2009
More than 300 people turned out in Lynchburg today to hear Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th District, tell why he doesn’t support the cap-and-trade energy bill that passed the House of Representatives about a month ago.
“The bill sets us on a track that I find not very compelling,“ Goodlatte said at the energy conference he sponsors once a year in the Sixth district.
The cap-and-trade bill now is pending in the U.S. Senate, and Goodlatte said the House-passed version would increase energy costs without lowering global temperatures very much.
Goodlatte said the best energy scenario is nuclear power — a line that won applause from the crowd at Central Virginia Community College. Nuclear technology is improving and it generates power without releasing carbon emissions, Goodlatte said.
Another speaker at the conference was Kristine Svinicki, a director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Svinicki said she expects new nuclear plant worldwide to increase electricity production by 10 percent.
In the U.S., Svinicki said the Department of Energy has forecast 10 new reactors will be built in the next couple of decades. Svinicki said one signal that nuclear power may be making a comeback in the U.S. came last week when Areva and Northrop Grumman shipbuilding broke ground on a plant to make nuclear-power equipment in Newport News.
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BLOGGING THE MELTDOWN OF THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
We knew there’d be a lot of people who’d say that the Canadian province of Ontario’s embarrassing suspension of its plans for new nuclear reactors is good news, but who knew one of them would be Ontario premier, Dalton McGuinty?
"Under previous projects we didn't find out about the high pricing until we were half or three-quarters of the way or five years into the damned things," the premier said.
That’s some fine spin as Premier McGuinty tries to save the blushes of his administration! Only at the last minute, "OH SHIT!" moment did it realize that accepting the price tag for the new reactors would be like falling for one of those email scams promising a share of riches locked in Nigerian bank accounts.
(If only the Finnish government had had the same flash of inspiration before embarking on the farcical construction of the OL3 EPR reactor at Olkiluoto in Finland. We imagine there are quite a few people referring to that reactor as that "damned thing" as well.)
This is just the latest example of countries finding new nuclear reactors unaffordable. Apart from OL3 in Finland, remember Turkey’s disastrous tendering process for its first nuclear reactor? The price of electricity from a new reactor was pegged at three times the average price of electricity in Turkey. Premier McGuinty could have saved him and his administration a lot of hassle if he’d only read the news.
Just how his plans for new reactors in Ontario come back from this he isn’t saying. Somehow, the price of these new reactors has to be reduced by two-thirds to match the province’s budget. Good luck with that. In the meantime, while Ontario crosses its fingers and waits for the price of nuclear power to fall, how about investing in cheaper, more reliable and safer clean and green alternatives?
Thanks for your comment!
Yes, I agree that we should demand our governments to turn to true green energy, solar, wind, tidal or anything that will not send lots of Co2 or waste products that last forever!
Virginia is at threat to have uranium mined by a Canadian company.
The company is always preaching national security if uranium is not mined so we can get off oil.
Therefore, we are fighting against uranium mining and the people’s rights to demand our local government to protect us against corporate raids!
Again, thanks for the comments!
AceTheCat
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