They require a colossal construction budget, and decommissioning costs a fortune.Ī conventional nuclear plant takes six years to construct and costs $6,034 per kilowatt of generation capacity, according to the U.S. Like the South Texas Plant in Matagorda County, today’s nuclear power plants were designed in the 1960s and built in the 1970s using slide rules and analog adding machines. But that’s a big if, and one not without controversy. If this pilot project works, it could speed the electrification of everything, a necessary energy transition to slow the planet’s warming. Wyoming, the capital of coal country, will soon host a cutting-edge, zero-emission source of electricity that promises to replace mining jobs with better-paying jobs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less
Larry Reese, HC staff / Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 7 of7Īn employee walks past the nuclear reactors at South Texas Nuclear Generating Station which is located near Bay City, TX on Wednesday, Jan. South Texas Nuclear Project reactor unit 2 control room at Bay City. Topping off Reactor #1 at the South Texas Project Nuclear Power Plant Charles Barksdale / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 6 of7 (AP Photo/Francois Mori) Francois Mori, STF / Associated Press Show More Show Less 5 of7 Deep in a French forest of oaks, birches and pines, a steady stream of trucks carries a silent reminder of nuclear energy’s often invisible cost: canisters of radioactive waste, heading into storage for the next 300 years. (Laylah Amatullah Barrayn/The New York Times) LAYLAH AMATULLAH BARRAYN, STR / NYT Show More Show Less 4 of7Ī technician controls a truck with radioactive waste in the Aube region of eastern France managed by French radioactive waste management agency Andra, in Soulaines-Dhuys, Friday, Oct. Xcel Energy runs the plant near the reservation and has stored 47 canisters of nuclear waste close to the homes of tribe members. The entrance of Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in Goodhue County, Minn. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP) Michael Holahan, MBR / Associated Press Show More Show Less 3 of7 has triggered an agreement requiring Georgia Power to pay more of the costs. The cost of two new reactors being built there is now at least $28.5 billion, more than twice the original price tag, with the other owners saying Georgia Power Co. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) Francois Mori, STF / Associated Press Show More Show Less 2 of7Ī large dome is lowered onto a nuclear containment building at the Plant Vogtle nuclear energy facility in Waynesboro, Ga., Friday, March 22, 2019. But a growing pro-nuclear camp argues that it’s safer on average than nearly any other energy source. Critics decry its mammoth price tag, the accident risk and deadly waste.
Nuclear power is a central sticking point as negotiators plot out the world’s future energy strategy at the Glasgow climate talks. FILE - Steam escapes at night from the nuclear plant of Nogent-sur-Seine, 110 kms (63 miles) south east of Paris, Sunday, Aug.
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