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GJGCA

(123 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 11:53 PM Jun 2025

New York will build first major new US nuclear power plant in over 15 years

Source: The Guardian

Kathy Hochul has announced plans to build a nuclear-power plant in New York, the first major new US plant in over 15 years.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/23/new-york-nuclear-power-plant

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Prairie Gates

(6,367 posts)
1. Nuclear power plants are probably safer these days than whatever they're using as industrial fertilizer
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:15 AM
Jun 2025

in Iowa.

HarryM

(429 posts)
3. Exactly my question.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 03:15 AM
Jun 2025

Perhaps in Governer Hochul's back yard in the Buffalo area. There is a move on to finally close Indian Point, and thanks to people like me, Shorham never got completed.
I would also like to ask her, what she plans to do with the waste. Perhaps give it to the federal government to enrich and make new nukes, or intensified tank shells? That's about all it's good for.

wishstar

(5,782 posts)
12. Probably will go to a Lake Ontario shoreline rural spot
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:15 AM
Jun 2025

esp. since Repub politicians want another one near Oswego. Definitely will never be another one on Hudson River or near NYC

Having spent lots of time in that area, never heard a word of criticism over the nuclear plants, but many complaints about the commercial calf and pig farming operations with manure holding ponds that create horrific odors over many miles and blanket entire small towns with constant stench esp during warmer months.

Bengus81

(9,462 posts)
6. We have one in Kansas we'll sell them. Jack it up and haul it off
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 07:41 AM
Jun 2025

Get ready NY for jacked up energy rates when it finally goes on line in 5-6-7 years. We had one shoved down our throats in the early 80's and have NEVER had anything but rate hikes.

Hell...we had our first rate hike while it was under construction because of cost overruns.

hunter

(39,980 posts)
7. Ain't nothing compared to "renewable" energy rate hikes.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:21 AM
Jun 2025

Places with aggressive renewable energy programs tend to have the most expensive electricity in the industrialized world.

Compare nuclear France to Germany or Denmark. Or California.

That's because you still have to pay for fossil fuel power plants, expensive batteries, and all the redundant power distribution systems even when they are not being used.

thought crime

(812 posts)
9. That could change.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:16 AM
Jun 2025

Wind & Solar can be used to produce hydrogen.

China is pioneering production of green hydrogen from seawater using offshore wind power, without the need for desalination. This sets floating offshore wind turbine "free" by eliminating the need for very expensive electrical transmission to shore.

hunter

(39,980 posts)
13. The unsuitability of hydrogen as an energy storage medium and fuel...
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 03:56 PM
Jun 2025

... has everything to do with the thermodynamic and other physical properties of hydrogen and very little to do with politics.

We can "believe in" hydrogen all we like, we can subsidize hydrogen schemes that will never be economically or environmentally sustainable, but we'll never change the physical and thermodynamic properties of hydrogen itself.

These sorts of hydrogen projects always fail in the end, as they've been failing for the past fifty years or more, and nothing is going to change that.

Bengus81

(9,462 posts)
11. That's because States, corporate commissions etc...let them FUCK their customers over and over
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:21 AM
Jun 2025

with endless rate hikes. Like in Kansas with Evergy,record PROFITS,CEO getting more that $7M per year. The company pays hundreds of millions $$$ per year for .67 quarterly dividends. What to do when your a energy monopoly in two States?? Go for yet another unneeded rate hike.

Which is exactly what they are doing right now and will get.

bello

(140 posts)
14. Yeah, but...
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:27 PM
Jun 2025

When did they start? How much was the schedule over-run? How much was the budget over-run?

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