In the final year in which both nuclear reactors were operational, the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) generated 16.7 terawatt hours of reliable baseload power from its 2.1GW of combined capacity—enough to meet roughly 25% of New York City’s total demand. By mid-2020, only one of those reactors was still running, but it managed to do so for the entire calendar year without interruption, turning in a perfect capacity factor of 100%. Not bad for a facility that sits on just 240 acres of land.
Betting this helps the Globalist agenda to kill energy needs in the US………
“US Senate passes act banning Russian uranium imports” – 01 May 2024
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Senate-passes-act-banning-Russian-uranium-impor
Ramping up domestic Uranium production sounds like a good thing, but when your starting from near zero in a heavily over Regulated environment, umm we’ll see.
No, it will provide a boon to Canada and Australia as the largest uranium producers after Kazakhstan. This will benefit Cameco in Saskatoon heavily, as it has the largest uranium reserves in the world in northern Saskatchewan.
Hope so. Most Urainium supply is a long way from friendly territory.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/uranium-resources/supply-of-uranium
The issue is not the uranium ore or metal. The US only can produce about 5% of its enriched uranium needs. Russia provided most of the remaining requirements, as either new production or as blended decommissioned bomb material. The US has only one centrifuge facility, and another about to come on line, maybe. They also have large quantities of uranium hexafluoride waste with very little progress in deconversion and disposal.
Canada has no enrichment facilities. Neither does Australia. So who will provide enriched uranium fuel?
@I Had To Say Something
Absolutely, the bill stipulates a 4 year phaseout out, what’s stopping Russia from waiting the 4 years to decide to turn off the switch? Maybe fears of sanctions or losing a friend?
Does this include from Russian Owned companies that have the official Clinton Stamp of approval, like Uranium One?
Hey hey ho ho nuke power gotta go
CO2 bad
Hydro good?
It’s all bad!
Everyone literally knows that you get literally all the power you need from moms credit card, duh.
Speaking of musical reactions …
Once you break it, you can’t fake it
Once you wind it up, you can’t unwind it
Once you lose it or misuse it, you can hunt forever and never find it
Are you trying to prove, that you can take more than give?
https://youtu.be/LgCCDtsLud4?si=ODf1Sqxl47Ucp8cY
The stupidity of the government is truly astounding. Or perhaps it’s malice.
As a wise man once said:
“Never Attribute to Malice That Which is Adequately Explained by Stupidity”
Hanlon’s razor.
There is a lot of stupidity in government, Canada and elsewhere. There’s a lot of stupidity in academia as well. Perhaps basket weaving, social sciences, gender studies, native studies needs to start taking a backseat to hard sciences, engineering and math. There are plenty of heads and that need to be pulled from arses all over the West if we want to get things in order.
If you look at the era of Reagan, you may notice that most of the departments were led by the big bad Haliburton and Bechtel engineers.
While the deficit rose, the things were in certain perspective of improvement on all subjects..
Foremost was the state of international threat of war.
Don’t make Reagan a holy man, as every man without an exception has problems with hisself (sic), on the balance of things he did well.
Nothing is ever as it seems. You want freedom, get rid of those who want to control you. I don’t care how it is done, it has to be done. For some reason cowards do not believe me.
Except when the stupidity is so widespread that only malice can explain it.
Hanlon’s razor itself was coined by those with malice. Its total BS.
But of course.
Malice. Their behavior makes more sense
What’s with the disappearing comments this morning?
The closure of Indian Point also caused the loss of about a 1000 direct jobs – a move that further economically damaged the surrounding communities and in particular Peekskill.
But hey – learn to code. Sarc/on
When it comes to so-called “environmentalism”, it’s the theatre that counts.
I can’t say it’s the thought that counts, because there isn’t any.
Why would you even consider replacing nuclear with intermittent solar and wind is just baffling.
To ensure the prosperity of millions…Of Chinese. You know, the ones that manufacture solar panels. And I laughed and I laughed.
Last one out, please turn out the lights. Oh, wait…never mind.
In Soviet USSA, light turn itself out.
That’s why progressives are emulating them. They envy that level of sophistication…and poverty.
Never mind the tens of millions exterminated by Stalin and Mao…that is an irrelevant footnote.
Nuclear industry needs to start marketing to children.
A new mascot. Animated TV series… Baby eagle with big eyes who’s mother got chopped up by a wind turbine, best friend fried by a solar mirror.
New York is reallllllĺyyy hard to feel sorry for. Even in New York, you will hear this. People outside of NYC are tired of propping it up.
It bugs me to say this but France got it right…it isn’t renewables powering their bullet trains. It’s nuclear, all day every day. Not everything mind you but certainly a lion’s share.
And all this “net zero emissions” by 2050 reads like a suicide note in my opinion. It should be interesting how Japan will thread that needle given their rather limited real estate. They’re betting big on Hydrogen…the hows and whys I know not. Good luck.
NY needs adults who actually know stuff to make big boy decisions instead of listening to Greenniks who soil their panties watching China Syndrome and news reels of Fukushima and Chernobyl.
SMR’s baby!!!
Nuclear is 80% of France’s electricity. It built nuclear power starting in the late 1960s because the Franco-Belgian coalfield was emptying rapidly of its last coal reserves.
Fukushima? After its string of antinuclear governments, Japan is returning to a policy of restarting its idled nuclear plants. There’s about 20 of them to be restarted. Japan dislikes the cost of importing coal.
Burton, i think you’re on to something.
It may be interesting to see how all the nuclear activity aftermath in Japan stacks up against the aftermath of Chernobyl.
I can’t comment there, but some of that article is pure BS.
“while chewing through thousands of square kilometers of once pristine land in the process.”
That’s got to be the biggest pile of beaver poo around…
Has Doomberg looked at a map?
Northern Canada is thousands of square miles of nothing… Tundra, Muskeg, mostly frozen permafrost.
“Pristine land”? WTF…
Closing the Nuclear plant in NY was bad, I agree… but claiming that the land area used by Hydro Quebec should be used to compare the power output is absurd.
Personally, my first choice would be Nuclear… but Quebec’s decision to build dams up North was not wrong. It was still a lot better than other alternatives.
They’re correct. James Bay was and is an environmental disaster. Massive amounts of land flooded, mercury poisoning the ecosystem, tons of methane emissions every year, and methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than than CO2. That James Bay hasn’t been shut down and the land returned to it’s natural state says more about this government’s lack of commitment to climate change than anything else. Personally, I think this blight on Canada’s international reputation should be on the forefront of every progressive’s conscious. This is something I feel the left should be actively campaigning against if they really wanted to save the planet.
Hilarious. The frequency at which methane would reflect energy back to the planet is already saturated with water vapor and CO2.
“Not bad for a facility that sits on just 240 acres of land.”
It’s all about the energy density. Government hacks and enviro ideologues are either too stupid to understand this, or they don’t care.
Yup,screw the trees.
In the name of saving the environment,we need to run a dam across the front of James Bay and run the water so stored through a series of hydro plants until it reaches Texas.
Where we sell it.
A win win.
Years ago I read a feasibility study done by a Quebec Engineer,to divert the fresh water that flows north,into a North American Irrigation system.
A very well researched and logical proposal.
That it would make The Cult of Calamitous Climate’s heads explode?
Just an extra bonus.
Canada and the US have treaties that basically keep water in their watersheds. Except for a few notable exceptions, like the Chicago river reversal.