Progress Chief Executive Robert McGehee said this year that Shearon Harris would be the likely site for the company's nuclear expansion."
Posted on 09/01/2005 1:14:18 PM PDT by cowboyway
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Progress Energy notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday that it plans to apply for a license to build a nuclear plant at an undetermined site, the company said Monday.
The company won't apply for the license for at least two years, Progress spokesman Rick Kimble said Monday.
Construction could begin within five years and the reactor could operate by 2015, officials of the Raleigh-based company said.
Progress Energy officials said they have notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they will select the site for a reactor this year.
"This is all part of our strategy that we have stated publicly which is to keep nuclear an option for future generations," Kimble said. "If you are looking at long-term energy generation, you've got to consider everything down the road."
Duke Power, based in Charlotte, is also one of six utilities with an interest in building a nuclear power plant. Progress Energy and Duke are the only two that expect to pick a site this year.
A nuclear power plant hasn't been built in the United States for more than 25 years, but President Bush signed an energy bill this month offering millions of dollars in incentives for building nuclear reactors.
Progress Energy operates four nuclear reactors in the Carolinas, including the Shearon Harris plant about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh. Progress Chief Executive Robert McGehee said this year that Shearon Harris would be the likely site for the company's nuclear expansion.
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Good time for it.
Sharon Harris a little south of Raleigh has one reactor and was designed to handle 3. Put it there.
Great news! Hopefully the first of many.
The enviro-whacko lawyers are salivating...
GOOD! It is about time. I am all for a nuclear power plant in every backyard. Do they come in designer colors?
Anyone know in nuke plants can now get private accident insurance?
Not until Apple starts makin' 'em.
As a stockholder, I say WOO-HOO!
Really sucks it'll take 10 years to see a new facility open its doors.
offering millions of dollars in incentives for building nuclear reactors.
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A flawed approach. Reduce taxes and regulations for everything and let the market filter the best approach to the top. 'Incentivising' what government believes to be correct will most often not result in an efficient system.
As a North Carolinian, this is exciting news!
Actually, Harris is designed for 4 reactors. I worked there in the early 80's during construction.
Also, the last line in the article says, "Progress Chief Executive Robert McGehee said this year that Shearon Harris would be the likely site for the company's nuclear expansion."
.."thanks to President Bush", in spite of the moonbat kooks that make up the base of the DemocRAT Party and from whom they get the funding and power to impose their Marxist ideas on the rest of us.
Bears repeating.
There should be fifty more permits out there, getting lined up right now.
The goal should be, one nuclear power generation plant per 1,000,000 population, within 20 years. Sited within fifty miles of the major population centers, so as to keep down transmission losses and costs.
Nuclear power generation plants can be made as safe as sewage treatment plants, even with the relatively unsophisticated technology we possess in the early 21st Century. By the middle of the 21st Century, technological advances should make local power generation possible on a block-by-block basis, thereby vastly reducing the wide-area blackouts now so common on national and international power grids.
There may even come a time when long-distance transmission of AC power is discarded in favor of a tight light-beam power transmission of DC electricity, a method that probably would be close to what Thomas Edison had in mind to begin with.
Just let that tight beam fry one federally protected raptor, and the whole system goes in the can.
Anyone know if this will be a pebble bed reactor?
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