"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"RCE" wrote in message
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"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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You are talking about one nuclear plant. Why haven't we built others?
Why hasn't Seabrook come on line.

What is the alternative to nuclear plants? ANWR!



Seabrook has been on-line since 1990.

Really, I was up that way this past summer and somebody, my mother, told
me it was off-line.



It may have been shut down for routine maintenance or refueling. The
Pilgrim Plant in Plymouth, MA has to be shut down every 2 years for
refueling. The Seabrook Station is owned, believe it or not, by Florida
Power and Light. One of our former Florida neighbors (and Mrs.E.'s horse
riding buddy) is a VP in FPL. She travels to Seabrook on a regular basis to
see what's happening, I guess.

My next door neighbor here in MA is an engineer at the Plymouth plant. I
asked him why nuclear powered aircraft carriers which are powered for life
with the initial fueling can last for 40 years, yet a nuke power plant has
to be refueled every couple of years. The answer is the quality or purity
of the uranium fuel. Power plants use fuel that is only about 2.5 percent
of something. Nuke Navy ship's fuel is in the high 90 percent range.

RCE