Thu 13 Sep 2007
Triple the Fun at Shearon-Harris
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It’s good that Progress Energy has requested a license application for the operation of two more units. It will create much needed jobs. Its a big step for what Progress Energy is doing, considering the America was left in the dust when is comes to nuclear as a means of creating power (just look at the rest of the world). We need to build more units to phase out the steam plants of oil and coal and turn back to nuclear and hydroelectric, after all the climate is not getting any cooler and going to nuclear power is a safe and exceedingly more efficient way to product power. Now about the whole waste disposal…what do you want them to do? Companies that own nuclear plants have been giving money to our government to build a facility to put that waste in and to no surprise that has not happen. Poor little Yucca mountain will never see the day that it becomes much more than a hill of dirt. I don’t know about that fifty mile radius around the plant. It seems to me that no matter how many units are at a nuclear plant that does not increase the unit: “Mile Impact Zone ratio. Take a look at where other reactors are…there is one in the center of Raleigh at North Carolina State University.