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Rep. Upton Seeks $5 Billion
Taxpayer Subsidy for New Nuclear Reactors: Critics Charge He's Doing Nuclear
Power Industry's. NIRS press release.June 21, 2007
The following is a list of unofficial sites
announced by nuclear utilities as candidates for Combined Operation License
applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for new reactor construction.
NIRS documented figures for
the cost-of-completion of the last commercial power reactors to come on
line in the United States.
No new reactors have been ordered in the United States since 1978 and no reactors ordered after 1973 were successfully completed.
NIRS comments March 2003 to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services in opposition to nitrogen oxide trading credits for the operation of the Seabrook nuclear power station.
Fact Sheet on Pebble Bed Modular Reactor design. Exelon (consortium of Philadelphia Electric, Commonwealth Edison, or Unicom, and British Energy) says it wants to build at least seven of these in the U.S. Exelon is part of another consortium which is seeking approval to build one in South Africa. March 2001
Press Release: Domenici bill nothing more than nuclear industry wish list, March 12, 2001
Fact Sheet on Domenici bill (S 472). |