From Deseret News archives:
Call for nuclear plants won't make much difference in Utah plans
The recommendation by the academy's National Research Council might seem like strong encouragement to Transition Power Development, which hopes to build a two-unit nuclear generating plant somewhere in eastern Utah. The plant would cost around $3 billion and generate 3,000 megawatts of electricity.
Transition Power, whose principals include state Rep. Aaron Tilton, R-Springville, recently signed a water-supply contract with Kane County Water Conservancy District, whose director is Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab.
But in an interview Monday, Tilton said the funding issue is immaterial, because Transition Power is not looking at using Energy Department incentives.
To date, he said, "we have not counted on or calculated for applying for Department of Energy incentives."
The report said GNEP research is taking money and focus away from other nuclear research programs and efforts to speed the construction of new nuclear power plants.
"All committee members agree that the GNEP program should not go forward and that it should be replaced by a less aggressive research program," said the panel. It said if the administration proceeds as planned, there will be "significant technical and financial risks."
Bush announced the global nuclear initiative in early 2006 and has repeatedly touted it as key to U.S. efforts to deal with a growing amount of highly radioactive reactor waste and still allow a large expansion of commercial nuclear power. Internationally, the plan envisions a small number of nations including the United States and Russia supplying other nations with reactor fuel and reprocessing their used fuel.
The Academy panel said it did not address the pros and cons of the international aspects of the GNEP program but expressed deep reservations about its ability to address the U.S. waste disposal issue.
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