New Nuclear Plants Status

[Content1]

That is the beauty of capitalism.  People come and go, but if the demand for workers go up and pay is raised to attract people, they will come.  The machine will keep running even if not with the current bunch of workers.

[GLW]

Not to mention the Final Rules due in 2016 which may give any business pause w...hen being served notice they have a 300 year liability:

...The staff considers a timeframe of up to 300 years of storage to be appropriate for
characterization and prediction of aging effects and aging management issues for EST. The
staff may adjust this analytical period based on the expanded gap assessment results, expected
in 2012, which will identify technical and regulatory needs to support the development of an EST
framework and WC update...

http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1102/ML110260244.pdf

Where the years 1991 - 2000 were decline, and 2001 - 2008 were stagnant, the years 2009 - 2016 are nails in the coffin,...

No Renaissance, more like life support with progressive euthanasia already planned and in the books,...

I'm just saying,...

and yet, the patient keeps fighting for breath:

Holtec Partners with ELEA, LLC in New Mexico to Build Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

http://www.holtecinternational.com/2015/04/holtec-partners-with-elea-llc-in-new-mexico-to-build-consolidated-interim-storage-facility/

New Mexico Joins Race to Build Storage for Nuclear Waste

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/29/new-mexico-joins-race-to-build-storage-for-nuclear/?page=all

...Holtec officials say the company expects to apply for a permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission within a year. State permits would also be required. Licensing could take three years.

"It's a tough road to get any nuclear project off the ground, otherwise we would have repositories and interim storage facilities all over the country," Heaton said. "We have great partners and the will to get it done."....

seems Skull Valley started a similar process in 1998, only to have the coffin nails driven home in 2012,...

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/12/22/pfs-pulls-the-plug-on-parking-lot-dump-targeted-at-skull-val.html

watch and see, watch and see,...

[HeavyD]

Latest milestone accomplished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlV6Ehsodg&feature=youtu.be

[Rennhack]

Latest milestone accomplished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlV6Ehsodg&feature=youtu.be

Nice video.  Thank you for sharing.

[SloGlo]

this vid makes it look sew easy! 

[GLW]

So, I'm gonna post this in three places because something has happened which has not happened since nukeworker.com was launched on the internet,...

An operating license has been granted to a commercial nuclear power plant in the US of A.

So, here's a quick set of numbers to let sink in,....

Licensed and Shuttered Synopsis                  
                  
Licensed in 1950's      3       Shuttered in 1950's   0      
Licensed in 1960's      19      Shuttered in 1960's   7      
Licensed in 1970's      59      Shuttered in 1970's   7      
Licensed in 1980's      47      Shuttered in 1980's   6      
Licensed in 1990's      5       Shuttered in 1990's   9      
Licensed in 2000's      0       Shuttered in 2000's   0      
Licensed in 2010's      1       Shuttered in 2010's   5   

[hamsamich]

Someone is putting skin in the game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dominion-makes-case-for-moving-forward-on-nuclear/2016/04/29/4b10640c-0e43-11e6-bc53-db634ca94a2a_story.html

[Rennhack]

$19 billion?  Seems dubious.

[hamsamich]

yeah but they are spending quite a bit of money to set up the possibility, not the 19 billion, but the hundreds of millions to even investigate.

[HeavyD]

Latest milestone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0PCFzGACI&list=PLA8526A9E662516DA&index=1

[HeavyD]

Photo album for the project

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scegnews/sets/72157629244341909/

[Marlin]

Photo album for the project

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scegnews/sets/72157629244341909/

That's a lot of pictures, thanks. There a few interesting complicated crane lifts that would give DOE reps ulcers. I watched a demolition that cut a large utility bridge away from an active building attached to the demo. When the final cut was done I did not see it move until the crane lifted it away, pretty amazing The DOE facility rep was expecting the worst and was visibly nervous until the lift started.

[Rennhack]

Photo album for the project

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scegnews/sets/72157629244341909/

That's fantastic, you should upload some of those to our photo gallery.

https://www.nukeworker.com/pictures/upload.php

[HeavyD]

Latest video from our project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvhKzOkvdvQ&feature=youtu.be

[MrHazmat]

My oldest son is a crane operator there, he wants to learn to run the Big one so bad !!!!!

[Ksheed]

Status as I understand it:


Vogtle 3 & 4 - Issued 2/10/2012 - Under construction


Summer 2 & 3 - Issued 3/30/2012 - Under construction CANCELED


Fermi 3 - Issued 5/1/2015 - No timeline for construction


STP 3 & 4 - Issued 2/12/2016 - No timeline for construction


Levy 1 & 2 - Issued 10/26/2016 - No timeline for construction


Lee 1& 2 - Issued 12/19/2016 - No timeline for construction


North Anna 3 - Issued 5/31/2017 - No timeline for construction


Turkey Point 6 & 7 - Under review - only license still under review

[hamsamich]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-28/eastern-europe-s-love-affair-with-nuclear-is-hitting-the-rocks

not a U.S. snapshot, but fairly balanced article of nuclear power in Eastern Europe...expensive, but still in their hearts.  some updates as well of how far along new reactors are in different countries.