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#coal & #nuclear: Too Big To Fail?
May 26 2018 10:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Reports, in 2017 . . . 1.9 GW of coal plants closed, as . . . 2.8 GW of new natural gas plants were added. In the latest PJM capacity auction for 2020-2021, prices fell . . . 23% – showing that we have...
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Follow The Money: #nuclear Losing Money
May 12 2018 01:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Exelon Generation, . . . reduced output Thursday night, and Friday morning, at . . . 4 of its nuclear units in Illinois. At least . . . 3 ramped down because of low power prices. 5-12-2018 Source: Follow the Money: #Nuclear losing Money
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Britain’S: Ageing #nuclear Plants
May 10 2018 12:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Cracks in the core of a Scottish nuclear reactor, . . . could signal that most of Britain’s ageing plants, . . . will not last, as long as predicted. Nuclear reactors generate just over . . . 20% of Britain’s electricity. Britain's electricity ge...
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#countries World-Wide Abandon Nuclear Power
Mar 30 2018 12:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
As countries around the world abandoned nuclear power, . . . China had bucked the trend, . . . embracing nuclear power as a reliable, and cheap energy source, . . . that would help reduce air pollution from burning coal. Now nuclear development in Chi...
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Decommissioning Costs Go #nuclear !
Mar 21 2018 04:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Spend $9 Billion, . . . to build a Nuclear power plant, . . . scuttle the project, and then . . . bill electric customers for the next . . . 40 years, to pay off the costs. Is what's happening at the . . . V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, in . ....
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#fukushima Nuclear Fuel Release
Mar 05 2018 03:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Prior to this most recent research, . . . it had been assumed, . . . that only volatile, gaseous radionuclides, . . . such as caesium and iodine were released from the damaged reactors. However, the new research is clarifying that, . . . small, solid...
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#fukushima: Global Consequences
Feb 04 2018 03:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Radiation levels of . . . 8 Sieverts per hour (Sv/h), . . . have been discovered within the Fukushima nuclear power plant, . . . which was destroyed after a massive earthquake, and . . . a tsunami in March 2011. 8 Sv/h is deadly, but, . . . 42 Sv/h wa...
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#coal-Plant Shutdowns
Jan 11 2018 09:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
13 GW of Coal electricity, . . . at more than a dozen different units across the country, . . . are set to retire this year. Texas is expected to have, . . . 5,583 MW of coal retirements in 2018, . . . based on planned retirement dates reported to EIA....
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#coal: Where Does It Come From?
Jan 01 2018 06:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Gas power plants are cheaper to build than coal. . . . They are also cheaper to operate, . . . partly because they can be ramped up and down more efficiently, . . . to match fluctuations in demand and supply. It has become cheaper to build new solar p...
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Who Pay's For Abandoned Nuclear Reactors?
Dec 21 2017 04:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
South Carolina's utility regulators on Wednesday refused to throw out, . . . 2 cases against SCANA Corp., . . . as the utility owner and state officials continue to argue over, . . . who should pay for 2 abandoned nuclear reactors, . . . at V.C. Su...
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