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NRG Polls misleading on Austin’s view of Nuclear Energy

Posted in Nuclear, tagged Nuclear, Nuclear Power, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station on January 10, 2011 | 14 Comments »

Last week, Nuclear Innovation North America (NINA) released a “poll” that they claim shows strong support both across Texas and in Austin for building more nuclear power plants in the state, but the dirty secret of polling in the corporate world is that corporate clients don’t conduct polls to find out public opinion: they conduct polling to buy results, [...]

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South Texas (Nuclear) Project gets a new partner

Posted in Nuclear, tagged CPS Energy, nrg energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Shaw Group, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, toshiba on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Shaw Group is increasing its bet on nuclear power, announcing a role in the proposed 2,700-megawatt South Texas project making it the largest nuclear construction project in Shaw’s history. Toshiba, the Japanese company, and NRG Energy Inc. jointly own Nuclear Innovation North America, which is developing the South Texas plant. The Shaw Power Group [...]

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STP Outage extended – what will be the cost to Austin and San Antonio?

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged Austin Energy, CPS Energy, lowered earnings, Outage, San Antonio, south texas, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A couple of weeks ago an outage at South Texas (Nuclear) Project (STP) occurred when unit 2 automatically shutdown due to an ”equipment failure”. This outage triggered a reliability deployment of LaaRs (Load Acting as a Resource) event at ERCOT. This shifting of load to cover an unexpected event can be quite expensive and the retail electric providers [...]

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STP Nuclear Plant (Units 1 & 2) up for renewal

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Toxics, tagged Energy, Life expectancy, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

NRC ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT The 22 year old South Texas Project (STP) Units 1 and 2 are up for renewal and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced today that an application for a 20-year renewal of the operating licenses is available for public review. The plant’s [...]

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Human error causes a partial shutdown of Texas nuclear plant

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged Electicity price spike, Energy, Human error, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, SCRAM, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, South Texas Project on August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown last Friday at the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. Last week, prices spiked in the wholesale electricity market. On Monday the 16th, wholesale electricity, which had been selling for less than $30 per megawatt-hour spiked to more than $2,000. That’s an increase [...]

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