Comments about ‘Utah nuclear plant to double up?’

I hope Utah taxpayers are ready with open wallets to shovel out billions when Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego and Los Angeles sue Utah to defend their primary water source. The Green River is a tributary of the Colorado. Anything Utah does to it is done using their primary source of drinking water. We could even end up in International court fighting Mexico over this one.

The technology to recycle the spent fuel bundles was develop thirty years ago and is being used by France, Japan and other countries today. The Governor just doesn't seem to understand that hundreds of Nuclear Power Plants both here and in other countries are operating safely today producing electricity and in every country except the United States, the fuel is being recycled.

Here we are building air polluting Gas and Coal fired power plants. If we want clean air why wouldn't we promte and builded clean Nuclear Power Plants.

There is no technology to "recycle" the spent fuel assemblies. There is technology to dissolve them and extract certain isotopes from them, which results in a highly toxic waste stream. The US never made it commercially viable, but left a toxic legacy at the West Valley plant in NY. In England and France they dump this waste in the ocean. In Japan, there have been fatal accidents in this processing. The US has no plants to accept the MOX fuel that results. This is neither clean nor cost-efficient. We need wind and solar, not nuclear.

leenaree said, "In England and France they dump this waste in the ocean." Ya sure. If you believe this about countries which are more "environmental" than the USA, you need to work on your nuclear paranoia. The fuel can be re-processed, but it is much cheaper to use uranium for fuel. These countries don't have access to cheap supplies of uranium so they reprocess, and have done for about 30 years.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Nuclear plants heat the river water by several degrees encouraging algae growth that chokes out aquatic life. Global warming is also increasing water temperatures with the same negative effects. We need to preserve Utah's water caches, the water itself is more valuable to us in our state than the electricity. Nuclear power is only about 20% efficient and the damage to the environment outweighs the benefits. We need to learn from the effects Indian Creek Nuclear power plant and it's effect on the Hudson River.

We say no to the Power Plant.....