PSEG Submits Regulatory Filing for New Nuclear Plant Here In New Jersey.

[NNadir]

Here in New Jersey, about 50% of our electricity is dangerous fossil fuel free, but to my deep regret, the other 50% is very much involved in dangerous fossil fuel use, chiefly the filthy dangerous fuel dangerous natural gas.

Here is the electricity production profile of New Jersey: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept05nj.xls">New Jersey's Electricity Production by Primary Energy Source.

There are no permanent repositories for dangerous natural gas waste anywhere in New Jersey, nor are there any elsewhere in the Northeast, nor in the the entire United States.

As a result, here in New Jersey, we dump our dangerous fossil fuel waste in the favorite waste dump of the dangerous fossil fuel industry, Earth's atmosphere.

Dangerous fossil fuel accidents are a regular feature of life here in New Jersey, and many New Jersey residents were affected or directly involved in the dangerous fossil fuel terrorism event at the World Trade Center in 2001.

For 17 of the last 20 years, nuclear energy has been the largest producer of New Jersey's electricity. We have - and hope to keep in spite of dumbass assaults by the dangerous fossil fuel funded anti-nuke anti-science industry - the oldest continuously operating nuclear plant in the United States, the Oyster Creek Nuclear Reactor. The reactor was connected to the grid in 1969.

To my great personal pleasure, our local utility has initiated a the first step in a regulatory filing to eliminate more of our dependence on dangerous fossil fuels.

This is especially the case because we have a great mass transit system in this state, notwithstanding the attempts of our unfortunate Christie Whitman/Bushie/Reaganite fat ass governor, Chris Christie, to destroy it along with our libraries and our world class school system. Here in New Jersey, were we to extend our rights of way to include passenger traffic, we could do great things to unravel the car CULTure.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-PSEG_submits_ESP_application-2605104.html">Application for a New Nuclear Site in New Jersey.

Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) has submitted an early site permit (ESP) application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a proposed new nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

The preferred location for a potential new plant would be adjacent to PSEG's Salem and Hope Creek plants. The two plants are located on a 740 acre (300 hectare) site in Salem County, New Jersey. Together, the plants currently comprise the second largest nuclear generating facility in the USA.

In a statement, PSEG said that a "dedicated nuclear development team has spent the past two and a half years developing the ESP application that is approximately 4000 pages." The application's safety review considers a number of site factors including seismology, hydrology, population distribution and emergency preparedness. The environmental review evaluates the impacts of construction and operation of a nuclear power plant at the proposed site.

The Oyster Creek Nuclear Reactor, which amortized its primary carbon dioxide external cost decades ago, was a gift from my father's generation to my generation. I hope that this new plant will serve to palliate for some of the great debt we have created, via indifference and delusion, for my children's generation.

[jtrockville]

1. Do you know who will insure this new plant?

[NNadir]

2. Do you know who insured the Gulf of Mexico against dangerous oil spills?

There has NEVER been an insurance claim made in this country on a nuclear disaster in 50 years of operations No one has ever died from the so called "waste" in this country, yet all the time I hear from people running coal fired computers about insurance on nuclear plants.

Who insured the collapse of the coal ash containment dams that destroyed the Big Sandy River.

Have all of the 300,000 people who die each year from air pollution in this country been "insured," by the dangerous fossil fuel industry.

Nuclear power need not be perfect to be better than all the stuff anti-nukes ignore. It merely has to be better than everything else, which it has been for many decades.

Have a nice insurance industry promotion day.

[jtrockville]

3. Yes, we taxpayers insure these dangerous, risky plants.

The reason there has never been an insurance claim on a nuclear plant, is because there isn't an insurance company in the world who will write a policy on something with such enormous risk.

Risky nuckear plants aren't any better than filthy fossil. Don't kid yourself.

[Statistical]

12. Insurance companies have been insuring nuclear power plants for past five decades.

Every reactor in the US carries $10.4 billion in private insurance.

To date Price-Anderson has cost taxpayers $0.00 to act as a backup stop for commerical nuclear power (to only be used after the insurance policies you claim don't exist are maxed out).

[hunter]

4. The insurance companies can bite my shiny metal...

Do we really want the industry that destroyed health care in the USA mucking about with nuclear power?

I think not.

[jtrockville]

5. I won't believe nukes are safe until someone is willing to insure them.

If the people who are experts in risk analysis aren't willing to incur liability at any cost, why should we?

[hunter]

6. The insurance companies are nothing as you describe them.

They destroy most everything they touch and in the end do not provide the "service" they claim.

The primary goal of the insurance companies is to increase the revenue streams they control and they do it at the expense of the people they "insure" and the common welfare of our society.

Most of the insurance business is parasitic and would better be handled by public agencies. The health insurance industry in particular needs to be replaced with a government run single payer plan.

Do you really want insurance companies to insure nuclear risks? Do you really want them screwing up the nuclear power industry as badly as they've screwed up health care?

[jtrockville]

7. I would like someone other than ME to incur liability for the risk.

Especially since I don't incur the profit.

[hunter]

8. Your words are brought to me by burning coal and natural gas.

Do the fossil fuel burners buy insurance against climate change?

[jtrockville]

9. Sorry, but I'm running on 100% wind power.

But yes, there are people, other than US taxpayers, who are willing to insure fossil fuel plants.

[Duchess]

10. Are all of the servers running on wind as well...

There is more to the internet than just your computer.

[NNadir]

11. Good. You'll only be here 20% of the time, at best, to spout silliness.

[jpak]

13. umm- NJ generates 63.6 million MWh per year but retail sales are 80.5 million MWh/yr

http://www.eia.doe.gov/electricity/st_profiles/e_profiles_sum.html

Where does the rest come from?





have a nice mountain topping day coal boy

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