The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant?

Question

are they going to be building any new plants? I heard because of the The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant there was no more planned.

Answer 1

Because of the Three Mile Island accident (and CHERNOBYL), people are scared of having a nuclear power plant in their backyards, naturally. I wouldn't want to live near one.

But President Bush has been promoting the building of new nuclear fission power plants and has limited liability for builders of the new plants. So, yes, I think we'll be seeing new nuclear power plants soon.

Answer 2

There are preliminary plans to build more nuclear power plants, though more specific information is not forthcoming. The current administration is attempting to relax the regulations on the construction of new nuke plants. This is in part because we need alternatives to petroleum-based power plants, but also because reactor technology has advanced almost 30 years beyond the technology used in TMI. TMI-1 is still in operation, by the way.

Additionally, the Three Mile Island incident is not strictly why there have been no new nuclear plans in the US for quite a while. That incident was indeed involved, but basically provoked such a public outrage that it became a losing economic bet. It would have cost so much to work through the bureaucratic and public relations mess that it simply wasn't worth the effort. As oil prices skyrocket, this is changing.

Answer 3

This "lib" is all for the construction of more nuclear power plants but....

Why didn't the 9/11 terrorists fly an airplane into a nuclear power plant? Captured terrorist: "We're not ready for that YET."

The 9/11 terrorists could have easily hit Three Mile Island or the Indian Head reactor on Long Isand. "Thousands of square miles in the northeast would have been uninhabitable for centuries."

Answer 4

They stopped building them because they cost a lot to build, and they are not cheap to run. but with rising oil prices and the high cost of making coal clean enough to burn they are becoming attractive again. Canada intends to recondition two of her older nuclear gens, and England intends to start construction on new one to replace old ones that will be decommissioned soon
The situation in the states I do not know, but the likely hood is that the US will use coal preferrentially to other fuels, except possible natural gas gen stations.

Answer 5

somebody closed the feedwater valves. 750 human beings had get entry to. could have been everyone. The study replace into undesirable because it did no longer evaluate intentional closure, and the plant persisted in operation.

Answer 6

because libs suck and they wont let us make more oil refineries or more oil drilling