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510 mentions for topic: Nuclear
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“There must be accountability for this huge mistake. It's just another chapter in TVA's long history of dramatic delays and nuclear cost overruns. For some reason, TVA keeps getting burned at the nuclear oven but keeps going back. You think they would learn that nuclear is not the way to go.”
“During this period of economic hardship, the rising cost to provide current electric utility service is severe enough to raise alarm”
“Three billion dollars of mess-up is a lot to have happen on your watch”
The TVA board approved continued construction of Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant with an additional $1.5–2 billion in funding, bringing the total project cost to $4–4.5 billion. TVA President Tom Kilgore stated the reactor…
“The … process has become little more than a pro forma session allowing the PSC to agree to the utilities' requests for more funds”
A federal appeals court unanimously ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must re-evaluate the environmental impacts of nuclear waste storage and disposal, vacating the NRC's Waste Confidence Decision. NRDC attorney Geoff Fettus, representing environmental petitioners including…
“The fact that there is a nuclear power plant owned by the federal government that is producing material for a nuclear weapon, I think that would probably make it a better target for a terrorist”
Former TVA board chairman S. David Freeman urged the Tennessee Valley Authority board to halt its nuclear power program expansion, citing inherent cost overrun risks. Freeman, a Chattanooga native and former board member, addressed the TVA…
“We think that the commission really should have acted more prudently in light of Fukushima”
“TVA is building yesterday's technology tomorrow”
“That a Progress Energy employee would be rewarded for ushering in that kind of arrangement is upsetting. That's unbelievable.”
“It's not even a maybe, they just ignore the question”
“SACE has challenged the $8.33 billion loan guarantee package announced by President Obama in 2010”
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has suspended final decisions on nuclear license applications pending completion of a reassessment of spent nuclear fuel storage risks, ordered by federal court in June. The suspension freezes nine construction and…
Duke Energy executive Jeff Lyash told Florida regulators that the $24 billion Levy County nuclear plant will be built and come online in 2024, despite earlier statements from CEO Jim Rogers suggesting the company would first…
