In contrast, the UK (6th) remains committed to building a new fleet of reactors.
The company, which runs most of the UK's fleet of reactors and which reported a 50% slump in profits today, has held talks with local communities around four possible sites.
The company, which runs most of Britain's fleet of reactors and which reported a 50% slump in profits yesterday, has held talks with local communities around four possible sites.
A new fleet of reactors would be standardized down to "the carpeting and wallpaper," as Michael J. Wallace, the chairman of UniStar Nuclear Energy — a joint venture between EDF Group and Constellation Energy, the Maryland-based utility — has said repeatedly.
But bitter divisions persist between countries like Austria, which banned nuclear energy in the late 1970s, and Britain, which is planning to build a new fleet of reactors to replace its aging models.
The fact that a new fleet of reactors in the UK could only cut our carbon emissions by a measly 4% was buried at the back of a huge pile of information that consultation attendees had to plough through in one day.
Entergy officials would not say if they were negotiating for Indian Point 2, but Carl Crawford, a spokesman, said: "We are interested in any plant that's available in the U.S. We're building a new fleet of reactors in the northeast".
However, reworking the numbers using seismic data from 2008, and computing the risk for the whole fleet of reactors in America being operated for the further 20-year extension being sought for their current licences, Mr Markey's staff expect the risk to increase 7,000-fold 7,000-foldbilito of 0.026 per year—ie, one nuclear disaster somewhere in the country every 38 years.
Here, a generation is defined as a fleet of reactors operating for 60 years, before being retired and potentially replaced.
The news is a boost to the nuclear industry following a series of setbacks in plans to construct a new fleet of reactors in the UK, which ministers say are needed to cut carbon and keep the lights on.
