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Duke Energy closing damaged nuclear plant in Florida

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Just what exactly do you do with a closed nuclear power plant? Surely, they can't sell it or redevelop the proprty in any way. If they give up the effort to repair it, doesn't Duke Energy still have to sit on it and maintain it to a certain degree to prevent it from becoming a further contamination nightmare?

dmarion2
February 6, 2013 8:51 a.m.

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I hear a lot of people crying over the rate increases. If you voted for Obama, stuff it! Think about rate increase when they are closing down coal plants as fast as they can. If they don't replace them with gas burning plants, expect the rates to multiply! RustyDawg

All the power company's were asked to do was put scrubgers on their coal fired. And all that does is cut into profit. Rate hikes will be minimal. And what would you rather do, breath clean air or pay lower rates? Sometimes, you get what you pay forha

Mr. Middle of the Road
February 5, 2013 5:40 p.m.

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Wy can't they seal the containment building in 10 feet of concrete and simply build a new adjacenet containment building ?

rmsmith
February 5, 2013 5:17 p.m.

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How do 600 people work in an essentially closed facility??

SomeRandomGuy
February 5, 2013 4:07 p.m.

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A design flaw made it impossible to maneuver the replacement steam generator though the equipment hatch in the containment dome. They tried to cut a hole in the containment dome so they could replace the steam generator. But this damaged the concrete and it's not feasible to fix it. So the plant can't operate. It's an expensive, radioactive brick.

tran
February 5, 2013 2:44 p.m.

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Someone should do an investigation into how much money was spent trying to fix the reactor (millions) and whether they knew before trying to fix it whether it was even worth the effort. I wonder how many customers' rates went up to fix that defunct machine?

hollylama
February 5, 2013 2:39 p.m.

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What are they going to do with the 1000 year highly-radioactive material that is (was?) there? Bury it in a park in your neighborhood? Make it someone else's problem in another state/country?

I love the theory that Nuclear is clean, but there's just this little problem of a millennia of radioactivity...