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Dominion Announces Plans To Close Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station In 2013
An anonymous reader writes "Due to low electricity prices in the Midwest, and an inability to find a buyer for the power station, Dominion will be shutting down and decomissioning Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station. One of two operating nuclear power stations in Wisconsin, Kewaunee's license from the NRC was not due to expire until the end of 2033."
To my pro-nuclear friends: This is as clear evidence as you're gonna get why nuclear power is not taking off. It's not nut-job environmentalists, it's not NIMBY, it's not some grand conspiracy. Nuclear is just too freaking expensive to operate with any semblance of reasonable safety.
They are over but the real reason they are over is coal.
Even though coal is probably our shortest most reliable and secure path to energy independence and even though we have enough to meet our needs of several centuries, using the most conservative efforts. Men like Sherrod Brown and Obama are determined to make its use impossible.
Now add the fact that Government as well as the NIMBY crowd prevented the construction of new nuclear plants, resulting in an entire deployed base being near end of life all at the same time, coinciding with destructive energy policy around coal we will see intense pressure on our base load generating capacity. Its going to be an economic calamity for our country and represents a spectacular failure on the part of Private energy, Government, and individual interest groups within our society.
Pretty much everyone is to blame actually; for ounce we probably deserve the ass reaming we are all about to receive in the mail monthly for electricity.
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"Germany only has over 30GW of installed solar power,"
At night?
I guess you just forget about all the power stations required to supply the base load when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.