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US NUCLEAR PLANTS SET RECORDS FOR ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, EFFICIENCY AND LOW COST in 2007 |
According to preliminary figures released February 6 by the Nuclear Energy Institute. US nuclear plants generated about 807 billion kilowatt-hours last year, exceeding the previous record in 2004 of 788.5 billion KWh. US nuclear plants had an average capacity factor in 2007 average of 91.8%, surpassing the 2004 record of 90.1%, NEI said. The industry's average electricity production cost - including expenses for fuel and operations and maintenance - was at a record low last year. The average production cost was 1.68 cents/KWh in 2007, beating the previous low of 1.72 cents/KWh set in 2005, according to NEI's preliminary figures. Final figures on the industry's 2007 performance are expected this spring, NEI said. |
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We would like to clarify that although our focus is nuclear energy, we are 100% supportive of all renewable and green energy alternatives. However, the criteria is that they must be "cost effective"!
The highly discussed topic of Green Energy is going to require a "socioeconomic acceptance", meaning, society will have to accept that the development of wind, solar, etc. will increase your electrical power costs. This is ok for the affluent portion of our society but it will be very difficult for low-income and fixed income people in retirement to manage their ever increasing energy costs!
They will say, if we build 200 solar farms, the production cost will come down and it will, but if we build 200 new nuclear plants, those costs will come down as well and the "production output" of nuclear energy far exceeds that any other source!
l We started losing our US manufacturing industries in the 80s due to high energy costs and that trend has been devastating to many “industrial” products moving offshore partially as a result of energy costs. Today, the cost of energy is a world competition not just a US competition. Energy IS the driver of all economies worldwide, we cannot afford to lose this competition!
l Nuclear kilowatts today are sold at about .9 cents per KWH. The best German designed solar systems are “trying” to achieve .22 cents per KWH. Pennies here but billions when they accumulate. We need renewable sources but, we really need to “reduce” our energy costs in order to compete with the “world” industrialization. Not only are they out performing us with labor productivity, they are also building nuclear power plants and it's these combinations that are making it very difficult for US to stay competitive.
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Our coverage of the 2007 American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting US Nuclear Energy attended the ANS annual meeting in Boston. Pictured here is Samuel W. Bodman Secretary of Energy for the US Department of Energy in Washington, DC. Mr. Bodman's address covered a number of areas that have to be studied as the United States begins to ramp up for a new age of nuclear energy development. Also at this keynote session, The Future of Nuclear, Dana G. Mead Chairman, MIT Corporation talked about the critical importance that the nuclear industry must not have any negative occurrences in this time of resurgence especially as nuclear proliferation expands throughout the world. “We found in state surveys that a very large majority of the public would support the expansion of nuclear power if the waste problem were solved and the idea of reprocessing of spent fuel is supported by a majority of people that would lead to diminutions of the waste disposal problem.” |
June 2007 American Nuclear Society meets in Boston
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A NEW PAPER FROM DR. COHEN Dr. Bernard L. Cohen, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Cohen Writes of this in 1990 !!! The Greenhouse Effect: on melting of our ice caps . . . If present trends continue . . . a reasonable estimate-middle of the next century, 1.5 to 3'. 1 foot sea level rise would move the coast line back 50-100' in the northeast . . . 200' in the Carolinas . . . 2-400' in California . . . 100 to 1,000' in Florida . . . several miles in Louisiana . . . Dr. Cohen book Chap 3 Pgs 24-25 on the link below . . .
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The mission for this website is to provide an “informational educational source” about Nuclear Energy compared to other forms of “comparable volumes” of electrical energy production. Our purpose is to present scientific studies and logical conclusions to average Citizens, news media, government and business representatives about the efficiency, productivity and safety of Nuclear Energy Power Plants.
01) We are a grassroots informational group to educate average citizens about the benefits of nuclear energy and the Yucca Mountain waste repository. Environmentalists, government regulation and the media have created a negative perception about the safety of nuclear energy and the repository for its spent fuel. Our mission is to bring the facts of the science to the public.
02) We believe nuclear energy is the best alternative to fossil fuels for energy needs of the present and future. We believe nuclear energy is the best alternative energy source to provide quality jobs in America. We believe the Yucca Mountain project is the best solution to the nuclear waste by-product issue.
03) We believe the pursuit of nuclear energy research will contribute to the development of many new nuclear power generator designs which are more efficient and safer then their predecessors.
04) We believe the development of more nuclear power plants will significantly reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, which will improve our economy on many levels while reducing long-term energy costs and our dependency on foreign oil.
We need to re-build America’s nuclear ENERGY industry. Nearly every industrialized country in the world including “oil rich” middle east countries are building nuclear power plants because they are a “maximum efficiency energy source”. In the early years we over reacted to the fear of "radiation effects, accidents, etc." of the 60-70s (SEE THE CHERNOBYL tab). Nuclear technologies today are well advanced from when we developed our first nuclear plants. We are foolish not to excel and benefit from this efficient energy source which would have far reaching benefits of stabilizing America’s energy requirements and independence from the oil producing nations.
We need YOU to become Pro-Active. Our US energy requirements exceed our production requirements and our fossil fuels are KILLING us and they are the largest contributors to our global “greenhouse effect” problems. Eliminating our consumption is not an option. We are learning to conserve and we are developing alternative sources, wind, solar, etc. However, the fact remains, the sooner we resolve to “educate ourselves” about NUCLEAR ENERGY and notify our state and federal governments that we want this directive addressed, the sooner we “will resolve” our energy needs for our children and grandchildren. America’s energy has extremely important ramifications for YOUR American freedoms. If you share these views then we urge you to lend a hand!