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Progress Energy announces intention to apply for nuclear permit
The News and Observer ^
| Aug 29, 2005
| AP
Posted on 09/01/2005 1:14:18 PM PDT by cowboyway
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This is a good start, once again, thanks to President Bush.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:14:20 PM PDT
by
cowboyway
To: cowboyway
Great move. Never be a better time, PR wise.
(steely)
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:15:50 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
To: cowboyway
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:16:16 PM PDT
by
cyborg
("I want to know how God created this world. I want to know His thoughts..." A.Einstein)
To: cowboyway
Sharon Harris a little south of Raleigh has one reactor and was designed to handle 3. Put it there.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:16:36 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: cowboyway
Great news! Hopefully the first of many.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:17:26 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(E Pluribus Funk --- (Latin taglines are sooooo cool! Don't ya think?))
To: Constitution Day; TaxRelief; Alia; 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; A2J; a4drvr; ...
"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."NC *Ping*
Please FRmail Constitution Day, TaxRelief OR Alia if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:17:48 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Emphatically eschew exclamatory excess.)
To: cowboyway
The enviro-whacko lawyers are salivating...
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:18:01 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: cowboyway
GOOD! It is about time. I am all for a nuclear power plant in every backyard. Do they come in designer colors?
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:18:15 PM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: All
Anyone know in nuke plants can now get private accident insurance?
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:18:16 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: ARCADIA
Do they come in designer colors? Not until Apple starts makin' 'em.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:20:56 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
("I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country." -- Mitt Romney)
To: cowboyway
As a stockholder, I say WOO-HOO!
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:21:02 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Dominus Iesus, miserere nobis.)
To: cowboyway
Really sucks it'll take 10 years to see a new facility open its doors.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:26:18 PM PDT
by
x5452
To: cowboyway
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.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:27:12 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm)
To: cowboyway
As a North Carolinian, this is exciting news!
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:27:20 PM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: Phantom Lord
Sharon Harris a little south of Raleigh has one reactor and was designed to handle 3. Put it there 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."
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:33:02 PM PDT
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been cowboys.)
To: cowboyway
"This is a good start, once again, thanks to President Bush.".."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.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:33:06 PM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'. Albert Einstein)
To: cowboyway
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.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:33:31 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
("Master of the painfully obvious.....")
To: Phantom Lord
You mean it was designed to handle 3 more.
They won't be able to use any of the facilities that were supposed to be used by the other 3 reactors because of the changes they made during construction as they cancelled reactors. However they have a lot of land, and can build new buildings. The reservoirs can easily handle the extra load.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:34:43 PM PDT
by
wolfpat
(The world is upside down when Snoop Dogg is selling cars.)
To: alloysteel
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.
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:37:41 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: cowboyway
Anyone know if this will be a pebble bed reactor?
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posted on
09/01/2005 1:38:23 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
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