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#GrandGulfNuclearStation, troubled #NuclearPlant, reemerges as hot topic as electric bills soar

Latest outage at #Entergy property comes as regulators press dispute over performance

By SAM KARLIN and MATT SLEDGE | Staff writers Aug 7, 2022

"For years, regulators in #Louisiana, #Mississippi and #Arkansas have fought to force #EntergyCorp to pay refunds for alleged #mismanagement and problematic #bookkeeping at its massive #GrandGulfNuclearPowerStation, in #PortGibsonMississippi.

"Grand Gulf has now been offline for more than three weeks. It’s the latest in a series of outages at the plant, where unreliability has been a central gripe of regulators. The shutdown is forcing the utility to buy expensive natural gas to make up for the lost power generation, squeezing customers who are already facing skyrocketing bills - and adding another layer to the long-running dispute over Entergy’s alleged mismanagement of the power plant.

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"The latest litigation, which began last year, centers around outages at the plant; the Grand Gulf was the least reliable nuclear plant in the U.S. from 2018 to 2020, according to figures compiled by the Nuclear Energy Institute [#NEI]."

#RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #GrandGulfNuclearPlant #TroubledNuclearPlants #ClimateChange #SealLevelRise #AdvanceAct #NuclearPlants

Ahhh... Good ol' #GrandGulfNuclearStation. I believe one of the LEAST safest nuclear power plant in the US. And run by #Entergy!

#NuclearPower generation seeing a resurgence. #Mississippi could benefit [?!!]

By JEREMY PITTARI - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Thu,10/24/2024

he Public Service Commission held a Nuclear Summit this week. New technologies are being developed. The future for more nuclear power in Mississippi is on the table.

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Mississippi’s lone nuclear power plant is operated by Entergy in Port Gibson. Known as the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, the plant is one of five nuclear power plants operated by Entergy in the United States, Jim Smiley, Entergy’s Senior Manager of Advanced Nuclear Development said. The other four are operating in neighboring Louisiana and Arkansas, with two in each state.

Mississippi’s nuclear plant has been in operation since 1985 and received an upgrade to its power generation capability in 2012, making it stand out among other nuclear power plants in the world [yeah, for most PROBLEMS!]..."

#RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #GrandGulfNuclearPlant #TroubledNuclearPlants #ClimateChange #SealLevelRise #AdvanceAct #NuclearPlants

> #Congress passed and #President #Biden signed the #InflationReductionAct in 2022, which includes investment #tax credits of up to 50% for new #nuclearReactors. In 2024, it followed that up with the #ADVANCEAct, a bill designed to make it easier to build and deploy new #reactors in the #US.

https://www.freethink.com/energy/future-of-nuclear-power

#nuclear #energy #electricity #america #usa #climateChange #cleanEnergy #carbon #co2

[Photos] Natives Protest at #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in #GrandCanyon on Sunday

Photos by Blake McCord, #GrandCanyonTrust, #CensoredNews

"Pinyon Plain uranium mine, inside the boundary of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument, is threatening the #aquifer where #Havasuapai get their life-sustaining water. Now, without notifying #NativeAmerican Nations, two #EnergyFuels #radioactive uranium trucks drove across the #NavajoNation, past #Hopi villages, to the uranium mill site on ancestral #WhiteMesa #Ute land in #Utah." -- Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/natives-protest-at-pinyon-plain-uranium.html

#HaulNo #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #NoNukes #NoWar #AdvanceAct #NuclearWeapons #ICANN #Oppenheimer #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #NoMoreHiroshimas #HiroshimaNagasaki #BanTheBomb

Photos -- #Dine' in Cameron: No More #Cancer! No More #Uranium!

Images courtesy of #HaulNo!

Saturday, August 3, 2024

"Dine' continued their protests in #CameronArizona, on the #NavajoNation [on Saturday August 3rd]. On Tuesday without notice, two #radioactive trucks carrying uranium passed through their community. The trucks began at the #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine, now threatening #Havasupai water in the #GrandCanyon, and passed through Navajo communities, and past #Hopi villages, before arriving on the ancestral land of #WhiteMesa #Ute in southeastern #Utah. Although Navajo President #BuuNygren deployed tribal police to stop them, Nygren said the trucks reached their destination." -- #CensoredNews"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/dine-in-cameron-today-no-more-cancer-no.html

#Navajo #NoUraniumMining #NoNukes
#NoWar #AdvanceAct #NuclearWeapons
#ICANN #Oppenheimer #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

So, apparently, aging #NuclearPowerPlants and #NuclearWeapons programs get TONS of cash, while people who lived #Downwind of #NuclearWeaponsTests and #UraniumMines (and #UraniumMills) get NOTHING?!! Wow...!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/reca-nuclear-radiation-congress.html

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/opinion-utah-must-reauthorize-the-radiation-exposure-compensation-act/ar-BB1qHmyj

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-advance-act-a-bipartisan-surrender-to-the-nuclear-lobby/

#Downwinders #NoNukes
#NoWar #BanTheBomb
#NoUraniumMining #RECA #NuclearWar #AdvanceAct #NuclearWeapons
#ICANN #Oppenheimer
#HaulNo #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

The largest bipartisan zero carbon energy generation bill has been signed into law!!
https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/biden-signs-advance-nuclear-act.html

#ClimateSolutions #advanceact

President Biden signed the #ADVANCEAct into law yesterday. The law, aimed at speeding up the licensing process for new #NuclearReactors and cutting related fees, requires a report on simplifying the environmental review process. In other words big news. #nuclearenergy https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4762188-biden-signs-bipartisan-nuclear-bill/

Nuclear Expansion Sparks Concerns from Scientists of '#CatastrophicFailure'

Story by Jordan King
June 19, 2024

"A group of scientists has spoken out against a new bill that aims to accelerate the development of #nuclear energy.

"The U.S. Senate passed the #ADVANCEAct on Tuesday, which, among other things, makes it easier and quicker for companies to apply for permits and creates new incentives for advanced #nuclear reactor technologies.

"It was passed with bipartisan support (88-2 votes), with Democrats getting behind it for environmental reasons and Republicans seeing it as a way to ensure electricity supply and create jobs.

"An example of how the bill could be applied is with the Bill Gates-backed company #TerraPower, which has so far been unable to secure a permit to build a $4 billion #Natrium Reactor on an old #coal plant site in Wyoming, Reuters reports.

"But the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science advocacy nonprofit, is worried about the #safety implications of the bill, which is now on its way to President Joe #Biden to sign into law.

"The organization's director of nuclear power safety Dr. #EdwinLyman compared the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's [#NRC] relaxing of rules to the Federal Aviation Administration doing the same with air transport."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nuclear-expansion-sparks-concerns-from-scientists-of-catastrophic-failure/ar-BB1ovdL7

#BigOilAndGas #Greenwashing #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #UnionOfConcernedScientists #NuclearPowerPlant #NuclearPlants #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree

Bill to Expand #US #NuclearPower Capacity Heads to #Biden's Desk After #Senate Vote

https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/bill-to-expand-u-s-nuclear-power-capacity-heads-to-bidens-desk-after-senate-vote/#ftag=CADf328eec

The #AdvanceAct would expand #nuclear #powerplants in the US and provide incentives for reactor innovation.

#AdvanceAct

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