Entergy asks NRC to stop reviewing its new reactor applications

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http://www.platts.com/Nuclear/News/7587595.xml?src=Nuclearrssheadlines1

Entergy asks NRC to stop reviewing its new reactor applications

Washington (Platts)--9Jan2009

Entergy asked NRC January 9 to suspend the review of the utility's two
new plant license applications, citing difficulties in reaching an
engineering, procurement and construction agreement with vendor GE Hitachi.
Entergy had filed an application for a combined construction permit-operating
license, or COL, in February for an additional unit at its Grand Gulf site in
Mississippi and another COL application in September for a new unit at its
River Bend station in Louisiana. An Entergy spokesman said the company has
asked NRC to suspend the safety review for both applications and to
temporarily defer the environmental portion of those reviews.

Entergy said in a prepared statement that it had not been able to "come
to mutually acceptable business terms" with GE Hitachi. This is the second
company to back away from plans to potentially build GE Hitachi's 1,535-MW
ESBWR. In November, Exelon said it was concerned that the ESBWR, which is
undergoing design certification by the NRC, might not be ready in time to meet
its needs. Entergy, in a prepared statement, indicated that its concerns were
not with the technology but rather centered on a contractual dispute.

[NNadir]

1. Well, a contractual dispute is different than a technical failure being branded as a "success."

I note with due contempt that marketing is a big part of the so called "renewable energy" scam, which despite years of great contracts and tax breaks has still failed to produce an exajoule of energy in this country.

I looooooooooove the marketing of dumb "renewables will save us" types too.

Here's a case where a crappy little windmill collapsed - just one of many cases of windmill collapses - and the dumb ass owner declared it a success:

Two giant Vestas wind turbines in the UK collapsed within weeks of each other in an indication there may be a serial failure in Vestas turbines taking place.

THE firm has insisted there are no major problems with their structures. An executive from Vestas Wind Systems gave the reassurance after it emerged that one of its turbines had fallen in Scotland just weeks before the most recent incident near Caldbeck in Cumbria...

... Most recently, a 100ft steel turbine collapsed at J Stobart & Sons animal feed mill, Hesket Newmarket, on December 28. It had been helping to provide power to the mill for 19 years. A six-year-old Vestas V47 turbine toppled at Scottish Power�s Beinn an Tuirc windfarm at Kintyre on November 8. The 200ft mast bent in half and crumpled to the ground after being hit by a 50mph gust...

...Investigations are under way to determine what caused the 100-ft steel structure near Hesket Newmarket to crash to the ground. The British Wind Energy Association, which represents 98 per cent of UK wind energy firms, will be directly involved and has pledged to act on any potential issues arising.

The turbine, thought to weigh around 11 tonnes, has been helping to produce energy to power J Stobart & Sons animal feed mill at Newlands for the last 19 years...

Mr Stobart said: "It is a sad end to this machine. It has been a great success in terms of what it generated"

http://www.off-grid.net/2008/01/15/vestas-turbine-collapse/

Duuuuuuuuuuh? Success?

More than 2000 out of 5000 Danish wind farms have been decommissioned.

By contrast, in spite of petty assaults by clownish mindless marketeers, nuclear power still remains the largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy in the United States:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/table1.html

Note that the growth in nuclear production easily outstripped the total production of wind and solar combined.