www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/nyregion/09nuke.html?_r=1&ref=earth
After struggling to get its permit renewed because of corrosion, the Oyster Creek Reactor will most likely be shut down by 2019 due to costly additions needed to the plant. The reactor is quite small and only supplies 6% of New Jersey's electricity, making the cost of renevations outweigh the profits of the reactor itself. While anti-nuclear people may see this as a victory, the tearing down of this nuclear reactor is hardly significant. I believe that we need to seek nuclear power such as thorium that will decay faster, but the shutting down of small nuclear plants does not promote our nation to alternative fuels. In fact, this reactor will soon be replaced by a larger one and produce more radioactive waste at the rate energy consumption in the United States is going. The only barrier to shutting down the plant is when, as Exelon is conversing with the New Jersey governor on how long the plant can continue without new cooling towers.
I think that it is god that they are closing the plant. We need to find new energy sources. We as Americans use too much energy
ReplyDeleteYou have a good point Haydan about the nuclear waste that will be produced by the bigger plant. They seem to be doing good by tearing down the old and "corroded" one and preventing a nuclear disaster. And yet they are doing bad by creating more nuclear waste they will just have to deal with after the first two years of production.
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