ECOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chain Reaction, Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Gregory Jaczko
4 Apr 2017
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High start up costs (,000 - ,000 for home to save hundreds $ / year) High cost of electricity compared to coal produced electricity. Gshp use 30-70% less energy than conventional methods. Switchgrass: native, needs little fertilizer or water. Grows on marginal land perennial: not produced large-scale, no subsidy available. About 5 million metric tons of uranium oxide are economically accessible. Nrc approved a request to build two new reactors at plant vogtle. The commission approved a license on a 4-1 vote over the objections of environmentalists and the. It"s the first approval since 1978, the year before the three mile island accident in pennsylvania. The company expects to begin operating the new units in 2018 and 2019. During a systems test at reactor #4 of the chernobyl plant, there was a sudden power output surge, and an emergency shutdown was attempted.
