Nuclear Plants Don’t Blow Over

12 Replies to “Nuclear Plants Don’t Blow Over”

1. Think of all the birds & bats that are safe tonight!!!

2. The newest nuclear plants are fantastic. One type uses spent fuel as fuel solving the problem of disposal.

   Three Mile Island, etc fear mongers take note. Technology has progressed since then. And we know not to build on fault lines and tsunami flats.

   1. OOT

      And that is probably why there is a effort on fakebook to demonize “nuclear”, probably paid for by the wind wankers, who stand to loose a lot of $$$ to acceptable nukes!

      1. Quite so. There’s a concerted push on in Canada to bring a number of nuclear projects to a halt. These include redevelopment of the main nuclear laboratory in Canada at Chalk River, attempts to stymie new nuclear development to replace Pickering, and fairly crude attempts to derail Canada’s development of a geologic disposal site for used nuclear fuel.

3. Re: ” …and makes enough power for 19,000 homes”

   This should read ” … when all conditions are perfect otherwise conventional backup sources are required (which is often).”

4. Blades are supposed to feather to neutral under strong winds but the bending moment stresses on towers which cannot be guyed results in failure every once in a while. Shit happens, and for the nearly useless grid parasites of wind power it seems to happen quite a bit. Obviously, the solution is contained in the above headline.

5. GE giddy with glee. Gets to sell another turbine at a price three times higher. Can’t sell a single with a volume discount, ya know.

6. “Peaceful Protest”

7. I guess “Renewable Energy” means replacing toppled wind turbines

8. So, the wind turbines are useful, except when there’s no wind, and except when there’s wind. Noted.

9. Nuclear plants regularly run continuosly for 200-300 days. Many run Breaker to Breaker or 500+ days. 90% Capacity Factors are the norm. Compare to Wind turbines that maybe, sometimes spin and create electricity about 20-30% of the time.

   You want the lights to stay on 24/7? Nuclear, coal and gas are your choices.

10. The cost to build this one tower is stated as $20 million. Really doubt in its 9 years of intermittent power generation it would have paid back a fraction of this cost.