The point - counterpoint format is exhaustive Marlin but I'll engage for a bit,...
Still working
Finishing an abandoned project is nice, but not a renaissance,...
In the design phase to be built next to the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility that was completed this last year.
maintaining the status quo for nuke weapons production at the ridge is good for the locals, but not a renaissance,...
Still here and ORNL once again has the fastest commercially available computer to help support it.
government research jobs at ORNL are still in the realm of the previous counterpoint, not a renaissance,...
B&W awarded the contract just recently.
same deal as the previous two counterpoints,...
USEC is hiring right now.Still here, just with new owners.
and again,...
Still here, just with new owners.
with a plummeted stock and after deep layoffs in the fall of 2012 without any indication that the nee public now again private ES is going to hire them back (WOTS is quite the contrary and the layoffs have another round or two to go),...it is definitely not a renaissance if you're an ES former hire,...
Also still here.
there for the tax and overhead advantages of Tennessee versus the former corporate home in sunny SoCal,...nothing to do with a nuclear renaissance, more like conforming to the standard modern corporate model after the retirement of Doctor Bob,...
as for a commercial power renaissance,...
nukeworkers have been targeted by the Obama administration for extinction,...
Yucca is dead and buried,...
the DOE "Blue Ribbon Commission" decided consolidated interim storage was the best answer left, which left the PFS at skull valley as the best potential answer, yet the BLM, DOIA and DOI have continually beset PFS at every turn, finally, on 01/13/2013, PFS pulled the plug on trying to bring consolidated interim storage to fruition and so the Blue Ribbon Commision's best answer is a dead end, Yucca is a dead end and the utilities are stuck with ISFSI's certified for twenty years and a never ending, above ground, temporary storage liability,....
Kewaunee is the first victim,...
Because there is no federal repository for spent fuel, the used nuclear fuel will remain on site at Kewaunee for an undetermined amount of time. After it is cooled for five to seven years in the spent-fuel pool, the waste will then be transferred to concrete casks on the Kewaunee reactor site, Stoddard said.http://www.jsonline.com/business/dominion-to-close-kewaunee-nuclear-plant-ld7aald-175326791.htmlstand by for more,....
Money, politics bury plans for Utah fuel-rod cemetery Some folks once thought it was a great idea to build a kind of long-term parking lot in Utah’s desert for the nation’s nuclear-reactor waste.
That thinking drove 11 utility companies to form Private Fuel Storage LLC (PFS) and partner with the tiny Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians in Tooele County to build a private, interim solution for nuclear waste until the federal government created a permanent one.http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55572298-78/nuclear-waste-fuel-storage.html.cspPFS pulls the plug on parking lot dump targeted at Skull Valley Goshutes in Utah
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/12/22/pfs-pulls-the-plug-on-parking-lot-dump-targeted-at-skull-val.htmlI'm happy for the continued jobs on the taxpayers dime at Oak Ridge,...
But those jobs have been there since World War 2,...
we're talking renaissance here, not status quo,...
