Resources & Stats
April 2008
NRC Begins Regulatory Reviews for New-Plant Licenses
Recognizing the role nuclear energy must serve if Florida is to meet its energy needs with a reliable power source that lowers greenhouse gas emissions, the state’s Public Service Commission has approved two new reactors at Florida Power & Light Co.’s Turkey Point nuclear power plant.“Trends indicate there will be a substantial need for more power in FPL’s service territory, and these new nuclear units can help meet that need,” said Matthew Carter, chairman of the commission. “The nuclear units will provide a clean, non-carbon-emitting source of baseload power to meet Florida’s growing needs.”
FPL is pursuing the construction of two advanced nuclear plants at Turkey Point that would add between 2,200 and 3,000 megawatts of generating capacity, which would serve as many as 1 million homes. The company expects the reactors to go into service between 2018 and 2020.
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Two Companies Seek Licenses for New Plants
Ever-increasing energy needs and the benefits of carbon-free nuclear energy have led two Southeast companies to take important steps toward building new nuclear power plants to serve the region’s burgeoning population.
Governors Comments Spark Nuclear Talk
As the result of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent comments, nuclear energy is getting a new look in California. “I think nuclear power has a great future, and we should look at it again,” he said at a Wall Street Journal conference on the environment.
Project Reactor Models Advanced Reactor
When designing advanced reactors, researchers decided that in order to think big, they would first have to think small. Such thinking is under way at the Idaho National Laboratory where scientists are solving complex physics problems in manageable chunks and knitting them together in a cohesive “mesh.”