Alliance launches effort to build nuclear plant in Piketon

Alliance is way up in Stark County. Why would they care about a nuclear plant in Piketon?

Well, you have to wonder why it takes 10 years to get the thing off the ground. Maybe these jobs will help in the next recession.

With the amount of red-tape needed to build these things no wonder not many are deployed here in the good old USA.

Well Frank because the word alliance means a group of people or companies working toward a common goal. Not a city.

What is clean about radioactive waste?

I agree this plant will bring in alot of jobs, however how many more people will get cancer in that area. Check out the percentage of people that have died or are dealing with cancer in that area because of the last nuclear plant was there. Look how many settlements they have paid out because of this. It will be good for the community to have more jobs but what good are those jobs if you or someone in your family will die with cancer in 10 years due to this plant?

Stable pricing, reliable source, and very safe. Let's get this going before the next fossil fuel crisis or carbon takes the planet. Nuclear power makes sense. Wind and solar are great supplements...but I would not want to rely on it.

This makes sense. Safe, reliable, and economical. Let's get this going before next fossil fuel crisis and before carbon kills the planet. Solar and Wind are nice, but I would not rely on it.
Go Ohio.

Jobs wrote:

Well, you have to wonder why it takes 10 years to get the thing off the ground. Maybe these jobs will help in the next recession.
With the amount of red-tape needed to build these things no wonder not many are deployed here in the good old USA.

The main reason no new nuclear power plants have been built in decades is that they have not been remotely cost-competitive. "Red tape" that prevents another Three Mile Island or the near-catastrophic accident at Davis-Besse is a pretty good idea in most Americans' book. As for jobs, any massive investment in energy can bring jobs to Ohio. Many of us would prefer to see a massive investment in wind, solar and (best of all) huge improvements in energy efficiency, the real low-hanging fruit.

Modern nuclear power plants are clean and efficient. Much safer than those built 20 or more years ago (TMI). Areva has an excellent safety record overseas.

I call on all of our elected representatives to work on getting the project fast-tracked. 10 years is way to long to wait.

The wind does not always shine
The sun does not always blow
So lets get going with nuclear
And then we can all glow

(I know, I did it on purpose)

Seriously, the wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine. Nuclear will be consistent and reliable if done correctly. I do not know if it is the case now, but all reactors should be built from the same design. So emergency responders will always know where everything is and problems in one reactor can lead to preemptive repairs in the others.

nuclear power is a proven failure. why does ohio want to relive the zimmer fiasco, when a nuke was virtually completed and then converted to coal, at huge unnecessary expense. this is a tragedy in the making. after 50 years, atomic power can't get private financing, can't get private insurance and has no solution to the waste or terror problems. why can't the power elite in this country get with the true green future?

Becky Pratt wrote:

I agree this plant will bring in alot of jobs, however how many more people will get cancer in that area.

A few less than would normally get cancer. Similar to most of the US states that consistently have the lowest cancer rates.

Deny, deny, deny. it sounds to me as though the same people who denied global warming--many based on next to no knowledge of the science involved--now are denying that risks associated with nukes--again, based on next to no knowledge of the science involved. Or the regulatory environment: most specifically, the Price-Anderson Act's ceiling of $10 Billion on private responsibility for an accident; above that level, the government picks up the tab, which is another way of saying that the cost above that level will be SOCIALIZED, which many strident nuke-supporters will no doubt try to deny. Perhaps they will use a variation of the Clinton sidestep: It depends on what I say the meaning of the word socialism is!?! Supporters of nukes will also have to deny their claims of having embraced democracy, because only a few "high priests" will ever be smart enough to understand how to run these things--and when they say "DO THIS, NOW!" you will, as if you and i and the rest of us were in the army now.

Please. Before anyone starts stridently speaking to me, check out my two postings to yesterday's story in the Dispatch [URL = http://www.topix.com/forum/source/columbus-di... comments 14 and 22.]

About the only good thing likely to come from this deal--and it's not all that important--is that a lot of pro "Liberty Fries" Ohioans are going to have to deny they did so, lest the French Engineering company "inadvertently" forgets a factor of 2 in on of its risk calculations.

But even that will likely be offset by the one-eyed Frenchie socialists running around loose in Ohio.

David Scott wrote:

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The main reason no new nuclear power plants have been built in decades is that they have not been remotely cost-competitive.

Thank the far extreme enviromentalist for that one.

michael daly wrote:

What is clean about radioactive waste?

That it can be safely stored away so that it can decay naturaly.

OR, it can reprocessed, where the longest half life of the waste would be around 30 years.

Now Homer Simpson can find a job.

Finally, some action on the jobs front from Teddy! This is great! We just need to shrink the approval and construction time and get this on line ASAP. Jim Rhodes used county airports to stimulate Ohio's economy in the 60's. Perhaps Teddy could use Nuke reactors to do the same. Skinny down the plants and construct one in each of the 88 counties. At 4,000 jobs per plant that would be 320,000 jobs and make up for the 250,000 that got shipped to China over the past 10 years.

The defusion plant issues are much different than day to day operation of a Nuke plant. This should actually tighten and clean up the Piketon plant location and make it safer for everyone. I use Davis-Bessie as aid to navigation on Lake Erie all the time. I haven't caught a hot fish yet!

Bottom line is that was a long time coming and the reasons holding up nuclear power in the US are political, not operation or safety related. The French really do know what they are doing and we could not have picked a better partner for this one. Score one for Teddy whether you like him or not.

Doesn't anyone else find it disturbing that the French flag is flying in the middle.

People need to realize that nuclear power must be part of this countries energy policy. I agree that we need wind and solar, but they are not capable of producing a solid base. Nuclear is.

As for as cancer increases, do some research. You obviously know nothing about nuclear power. It has one of the highest safety records of any industry today. Even after Three Mile Island, the worst event in America's nuclear power industry, the radiation released to the public was less than a chest X-ray's worth of radiation! Sounds dangerous to me!

Dazed and Confused wrote:

The wind does not always shine
The sun does not always blow
So lets get going with nuclear
And then we can all glow
(I know, I did it on purpose)
Seriously, the wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine. Nuclear will be consistent and reliable if done correctly. I do not know if it is the case now, but all reactors should be built from the same design. So emergency responders will always know where everything is and problems in one reactor can lead to preemptive repairs in the others.

Dazed and confused wow I guess so. "The wind doesn't always blow" Come on as long as the earth is rotating and the moon with it's gravitational pull there will always be wind or a slight breeze. "The Sun doesn't always shine" well here is another eye opener its always there just may not be as bright through the clouds solar panels will still work on a cloudy day. Government research has revealed they dont know the long term effects of nuclear energy we may be killing the planet slowly so our next generation will feel the effects. Sure lets go nuclear i know i wouldnt want one in my back yard. I feel bad for everyone in Piketon they need to realize the dangers if its man made its not 100% safe.