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in the USA?
I doubt it....
Florida is in the USA
in the USA?
I doubt it....
There are other environmental factors people never mention.
Nukes need HUGE amounts of FRESH water. Massive amounts. There is a row of HUGE wells just for the one Nuke that sucks off massive amounts of ground water. This is bleeding off water from the aquafer, which then affects water for cities - that then use ground water. The amount of water being pulled - despite how wet this area is - is that the salinity of fresh water is increasingly becoming brackish - radically harming the estuaries.
Florida is in the USA
I stand for cold fusion. Otherwise, no.
Almost all nukes are built near rivers, oceans, big lakes....the one that does not uses very little well water, it gets its cooling water from the cities in and around Phoenix, in the form of partially treated sewer effluent. It is piped to the plant (3 units) where it is further treated to make it cleaner and viable for use in cooling towers. The treatment plant is situated near the nuke plant, but downwind if winds are in the normal direction. When the wind shifts, you know immediately...There are other environmental factors people never mention.
Nukes need HUGE amounts of FRESH water. Massive amounts. There is a row of HUGE wells just for the one Nuke that sucks off massive amounts of ground water. This is bleeding off water from the aquafer, which then affects water for cities - that then use ground water. The amount of water being pulled - despite how wet this area is - is that the salinity of fresh water is increasingly becoming brackish - radically harming the estuaries.
Basically "incentives as encouragement". There could be some effort to change new building regulations to include energy efficiency, but most should be encouraged, not regulated.
DHW can be done far better on site with a solar water heater system. But there are some commercial/industrial uses of that wasted heat, in Europe IIRC. Domestic home heating needs could be further reduced by using passive solar building techniques. IOW, build green to start with, so that you need less gas and electricity.A big river is enough to cool the plant. Or, plants can be build close to big cities, so they can utilize that energy instead of wasting it. Then they can provide hot water for a whole city, annually. I don't say central heating because it only last for half of the time. Domestic hot water is used at all times.
Coal plants have the same issue, the massive amounts of water needed is for the cooling towers, so any plant that uses steam turbines will need cooling water. Even combined cycle gas turbines have cooling towers.There are other environmental factors people never mention.
Nukes need HUGE amounts of FRESH water. Massive amounts. There is a row of HUGE wells just for the one Nuke that sucks off massive amounts of ground water. This is bleeding off water from the aquafer, which then affects water for cities - that then use ground water. The amount of water being pulled - despite how wet this area is - is that the salinity of fresh water is increasingly becoming brackish - radically harming the estuaries.
FLorida is about 37 out of 50 states for high rates, above average but not in the top 10...Florida is in the USA
When we think of energy independence, most think of middle east oil as our only import, but we get natural gas and oil from Canada and Mexico.We humans cracked the atom sometime in the early 1940's; built the first nuclear power plant anywhere on the planet in 1954 in the USSR. The US currently has 104 nuclear power plants.
Nuclear Energy Institute - U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
I can't believe I'm asking this, but I am. I'd rather have another one in my county than to have fraking for natural gas going on, or coal mining, or that benighted Keystone Pipeline.
What say you? Could we achieve energy independence via building more nuclear power plants, and if so, would you be willing to do so?
we haven't managed hot fusion yet, and it exists in nature, in the sun...
where does cold fusion exist?
DHW can be done far better on site with a solar water heater system.
IOW, build green to start with, so that you need less gas and electricity.
They are building another nuke plant within 20 miles of where I sit, along with the existing three-within-100-miles I already have.
I'm fine with that. Bring it on.
I'm all for nuke energy, use it for the next 50 years as renewable energy tech progresses, then when it's at the stage it out does nuclear, switch to it.
What are you talign about?
Nuclear power is the most expensive, dangerous and dirtiest method of producing electricity
Fukushima and Chernobyl are grave site reminders - pay attention
The largest nuclear power plant in the world cost 7.8 billion dollars to build, and has an output of 7,200 MW, the largest wind farm cost 17.5 billion, and has an output of 5,100 MW, the largest solar plant cost 280 million, and produces 214 MW. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in coal mining accidents, and coal mining, and the burning of coal produced far more pollutants than uranium mining.
One was 70's Soviet technology, with the accident caused by under-trained communists, the other was a 30 year old plant hit by one of the largest recorded earthquakes and a huge tsunami.
You can't insure nuclear power plants for public liability do you understand why?
If you carry out a full life cycle analysis of uranium ore to waste disposal, nuclear energy is extremely carbon polluting
Have you worked why the private sector has not built a single nuclear power plant anywhere in the world.
Fukushima Daichi in Japan is expected to incur a cost of half a trillion dollars to clean up in the next 40 years
Not that the costs will end at that time. Waste disposal responsibility is expected to be in the time scale of hundreds of thousands of years. Wonder what the costs will mount to by then?
TEPCO was the largest energy corporation in Asia and among the top few in the world but is now national send by the Japan government and technically insolvent and bankrupt.
Looks like your costs to build and run a nuclear power are a little conservative don't you think?
I grew up in the shadow of a nuclear plant. My father worked security at the plant for a number of years when I was young. I now work in the electric utility industry, though on the Distribution side, not Generation or Transmission. I have absolutely no problem with nuclear energy.
Nuclear power is NOT a renewable and is outrageously expensive. If asked what is THE most expensive facility to built, what takes THE longest to build, what is THE most expensive to operate, and which one can potentially render an entire region uninhabitable for 10,000 years - and the answer to all is nuclear power.