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Tue Feb-10-09 09:06 PM
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Location of Projected New Nuclear Power Reactors |
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:07 PM
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1. Curious about the high concentration on the East Coast. Why is that? |
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:09 PM
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2. high concentration of energy users??? |
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:11 PM
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3. Curious about the dearth of reactors on the West Coast. Why is that? |
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:16 PM
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:25 PM
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11. Not all earthquakes originate on the West Coast |
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Does the New Madrid Fault ring a bell? The New Madrid earthquake of December 1811 (magnitude 8.0) rang church bells in Boston, Massachusetts, 1000 miles away.
magnitude 8.0! A magnitude 8.0 earthquake is something to be afraid of.
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:27 PM
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13. We already have them here |
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Tue Feb-10-09 10:02 PM
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The west coast (Pacific time zone) is only 17% of the lower 48 states.
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:13 PM
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4. Yeah, that is weird. Seems like they'd put them in Wyoming |
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with its 475,000 population.
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:19 PM
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6. Or remote parts of Nevada. n/t |
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:35 PM
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14. Nevada doesn't want nuclear energy or nuclear waste, thank you. |
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Yes, they used to blow stuff up here in the 50s. We don't do that anymore. People were stupid then; doctors in the 50s also used to go on TV to tell us what healthy products Marlboros were. Nevada is not a wasteland. Just because it doesn't get a lot of rain does not make the wild open spaces any less important to protect than anywhere else.
What we SHOULD be doing with Nevada is building big time solar power plants. Using DC transmission lines, the Southwest could pump out enough solar-generated electricity to power most of the continent.
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Tue Feb-10-09 10:20 PM
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There were nuke tests in Nevada all the way into the early nineties. The last atmospheric test IIRC was 1962, though.
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:21 PM
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7. There is a limit, a known energy loss sending power long distances. |
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:23 PM
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9. Yeah, I^2*R loss. I was being, or trying to be, sarcastic. |
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Tue Feb-10-09 10:14 PM
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16. Availability of water/cooling? |
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Also, the one near me, Nine Mile, already a couple plants there but are set to retire and there is the infrastructure to handle it and a trained workforce locally (they built the first one).
I notice they are building another (TVA facility) in Alabama, my dh worked there on a shut down a couple of years ago.
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:22 PM
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8. None in Illinois? I am all for it |
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Funny how that works isn't it?
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:25 PM
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10. An awful lot of Red states there |
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I'd be afraid to live near one the way Republican's tend to cut corners and not believe in science...
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Tue Feb-10-09 09:27 PM
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12. Not one in New Jersey? |
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