[ RadSafe ] [Nuclear News] FPL Proposes Expanding Nuclear Power

[Muckerheide, Jim (CDA)]

Hi Ward,

No.  These are power uprates to their current nuclear plants.  Some
recent uprates have been up to 20%.  You can see some data on uprates at
the NRC web site:
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/power-uprates.html 

And/or at the NEI website:
http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/graphicsandcharts/poweruprates/ 

Regards, Jim 
 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brunkow, Ward [mailto:ward.brunkow at wipp.ws] 
>Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:01 PM
>To: Sandy Perle; stewart farber; powernet at hps1.org; 
>radsafe at radlab.nl; Muckerheide, Jim (CDA)
>Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] [Nuclear News] FPL Proposes Expanding 
>Nuclear Power
>
>Oh, OK... I see now that they are just going to try to add 400 MW to
>their current fossil plants I guess, no way you can do a 
>license upgrade
>for that much on a nuclear powerhouse. A turbine upgrade might 
>add 30 MW
>per plant. So that is worse yet. FPL has made very little commitment to
>the 2010 nuclear power initiative, one of the best things to ever come
>along in this industry, with presidential support like we will probably
>never see again. I have colleagues who have joined the NRC this year to
>support license apps for new reactors NOW...and they feel like maytag
>repair men, nothing happening, it appears that FPL will not be 
>much help
>either. They are waiting long enough to see if anyone else fails when
>first one in the water...even though they've had an outstanding 3
>decades with their nukes..they are not going to show more confidence to
>jump in now and get wet...and support all of us out here who have been
>trying to bring the new reactor industry back since TMI. 
>
>
>W. G. (Ward) Brunkow
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Perle
>Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:01 AM
>To: Brunkow, Ward; 'stewart farber'; powernet at hps1.org;
>radsafe at radlab.nl; 'Muckerheide, Jim (CDA)'
>Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] [Nuclear News] FPL Proposes Expanding Nuclear
>Power
>
>Ward,
>
>FPL is evaluating nuclear generation capacity increase from their
>"existing"
>reactors by 2012, and then adding new reactors to their system 
>by 2020. 
>
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