Location of Projected New Nuclear Power Reactors

[The Straight Story]

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/new-reactor-map.html

[Parker CA]

1. Curious about the high concentration on the East Coast. Why is that?

[NightWatcher]

2. high concentration of energy users???

[Brother Buzz]

3. Curious about the dearth of reactors on the West Coast. Why is that?

[MiniMe]

5. Earthquakes in CA?

[Brother Buzz]

11. Not all earthquakes originate on the West Coast

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.

[slackmaster]

13. We already have them here

Don't need any more.

[pokerfan]

15. Population?

The west coast (Pacific time zone) is only 17% of the lower 48 states.

[ferrous wheel]

4. Yeah, that is weird. Seems like they'd put them in Wyoming

with its 475,000 population.

[Still Sensible]

6. Or remote parts of Nevada. n/t

[Nevernose]

14. Nevada doesn't want nuclear energy or nuclear waste, thank you.

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.

[AZCat]

17. The fifties?

There were nuke tests in Nevada all the way into the early nineties. The last atmospheric test IIRC was 1962, though.

[Brother Buzz]

7. There is a limit, a known energy loss sending power long distances.

[ferrous wheel]

9. Yeah, I^2*R loss. I was being, or trying to be, sarcastic.

:shrug:

[eilen]

16. Availability of water/cooling?

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.

[NNN0LHI]

8. None in Illinois? I am all for it

Funny how that works isn't it?

Don

[EC]

10. An awful lot of Red states there

I'd be afraid to live near one the way Republican's tend to cut corners and not believe in science...

[slackmaster]

12. Not one in New Jersey?

Wut a terrible plan.