Reader comments
Cost of a Utah nuclear plant could reach $3 billion
6 comments | Read story
Roc Doc | 11:50 a.m. Oct. 19, 2007
Nuclear power plants generate such a huge amount of electricity, that start-up
cost will pay for itself. All with no pollution. Build it, please!
Recommend
Recommendations: 0
Spanish Fork | 1:02 p.m. Oct. 19, 2007
"No nations now have permanent repositories for high-level nuclear waste,
he said." That is because they don't have a cheap source of uranium
and already forced to reprocess the depleted rods. Water is a bigger problem in
the desert West and Southwest U.S. When they wake up, I think Southern
California and Mexican Baja will build more nuclear plants than anywhere,
because they can create large amounts of fresh water from seawater almost as a
by product of power production through evaporation and condensation. They are
just not there yet, emotionally.
Recommend
Recommendations: 0
Eileen | 4:04 p.m. Oct. 19, 2007
Roc Doc, what we need to be looking at are the total costs, not just start-up
costs. We need to look at the rising costs of uranium, the cost of the heavy
machinery that has to be imported, because there are no domestic suppliers. The
costs of building on-site storage, The eventual cost of reprocessing or
disposal, and the costs of decommissioning. The only way nuclear plants are
even contemplated, is because of the massive subsidies, and the assumption of
liability for accidents by the federal government. Now there is a trend to pass
laws at the state level to reimburse costs for the building of such plants, even
if they do not produce electricity. Are these plants a good deal? For whom?
Certainly not for taxpayers or ratepayers.
Recommend
Recommendations: 0
Eileen | 4:05 p.m. Oct. 19, 2007
Spanish Fork, there are countries that reprocess spent fuel, and the process is
rife with problems. Reprocessing has its own concentrated waste stream, and in
France and England they have been dumping this waste stream in the ocean! There
are no reprocessing plants in the US. The "new" process that Diz
talks about has not been proven outside of a laboratory environment, so the
assertion that "such plants are ten times as safe" is absurd. Locating
nuclear power plants next to the ocean so as to provide a source of cooling
water has caused the changes to the surrounding ocean fauna and flora with fish
and mammal kills and algae blooms. The water released from nuclear plants
contains "acceptable" levels of tritium, although the CDC and the NIH
do not believe there is any acceptable level.
Recommend
Recommendations: 0
tax guzzling politics | 3:51 p.m. Oct. 27, 2007
Be sure to add the cost of litigation when California, Nevada, Arizona have at
Utah in court for putting nuke plants on their primary water supply. Then get
ready to face Mexico in international court. The Green is a tributary of the
Colorado. Prepare for years of courthouse war, Utah, and prepare to shell out
billions of tax dollars in an interstate court frenzy the likes of which you
have never seen.
Recommend
Recommendations: 0
California Power | 11:23 a.m. Oct. 29, 2007
Bear in mind that this proposed plant is actually a California power plant.
Like the IPP, it will just be located in Utah. Most of the power, however, will
be exported.
Recommend
Recommendations: 0
Get today's headlines via email
Afternoon edition
Deseret News Family Deals
In News
Across Site
- Prepare so an earthquake doesn't...
- Is technology making us stupid?
- Crews searching recycling center in...
- West Valley City leaders to join call...
- Colliding causes: Gay rights and...
- Woman charged in Rasmussen death...
- Photos: Salt Lake Main Library...
- Powells, Coxes put differences aside...
- Amendments to gutted sex education...
- Requests to alter online news...
In News
Across Site
- Powells, Coxes put differences aside...
- Colliding causes: Gay rights and...
- Despite data, Lyme disease sufferers...
- View live stream of services for...
- Crews searching recycling center in...
- Father-in-law dragged deeper into...
- Battling misconceptions: Faced with...
- LDS bishop ordered to stand trial for...
- Josh Powell had 'incestuous' images...
- Focus returns to Powell children today
In News
Across Site
- Gay rights and religious liberty
89 - Families at odds over Powell's actions
54 - LDS bishop ordered to stand trial
41 - Utah House blocks Sandstrom bill
39 - Powell call:'I'm afraid for their lives'
33 - Photos: Year of the Dragon
26 - Bill would cut auto safety checks
24 - Should SLC bid again for Olympics?
23 - Utah takes $171M in settlement
19 - Powell told son he had 'surprise'
18






