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Nuclear power plant debate in Fresno heats up | abc30.com - 0 views

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    "FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The prospect their elected officials might endorse construction of two nuclear power plants had many county residents upset. Dallas Blanchard of Fresno was one of about 20 people who spoke out at Tuesdays Board of Supervisors meeting. "Anybody who is seriously considering voting for this should look at Japan, radiation is still leaking to this day." Fresno Social Activist Ellie Bluestein said; "It's hard to believe that supervisors who are seriously concerned about our safety and well being would consider a nuclear part of it." But Supervisor Judy Case countered that we shouldn't rule out nuclear because we need more power, and said she doesn't like windmills. "I'm concerned that all those wind generators will be on every hilltop in California. That environmentally is not very attractive to me, I don't like it." "
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Nuclear plant near Fresno planned - latimes.com - 0 views

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    "The deal between French firm Areva and California investors faces regulatory hurdles. Early plans call for building at least one 1,600-megawatt plant using European pressurized reactor technology. Reporting from Sacramento - A French company and a group of Central Valley investors announced Tuesday that they had signed a letter of intent to build one or two nuclear power plants near Fresno. The agreement with Areva, a Paris nuclear engineering firm, is expected to be finalized in March, said John Hutson, chief executive of the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, a partnership of local business executives and farmers. Once that's done, the two potential partners would begin a site selection and evaluation process that could take as long as two years, he said. Environmentalists were skeptical that the agreement would go anywhere. They point out that California has a 3-decade-old law that bans the construction of nuclear power plants unless the state can certify that the federal government has come up with a plan for the permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel, which is highly radioactive. No such facility exists in the country, and plans to open one at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have been put on hold by the Obama administration. The California ban doesn't trouble the California investors. "The law is archaic and will fall by the wayside on its own, in our opinion," Hutson said. Early plans call for building one or two 1,600-megawatt power plants using European pressurized reactor technology. The cost is expected to range between $5 billion and $8 billion, Hutson said. He said no financing had been secured at this stage of the project."
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Recordnet.com: Nuclear waste in Stockton? - 0 views

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    Nuclear waste could be shipped through Stockton if a group of Fresno-area businessmen succeeds in its plan to build the state's first nuclear plant in more than two decades. Don't expect to see cooling towers rise above the farms west of Fresno anytime soon. The state forbids construction of new nuclear plants until there's a proven way to dispose of spent fuel, most of which is being temporarily stored at plants across the country. A national disposal site planned for southern Nevada has been delayed.
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'Atomic Anne' pitches nuclear power in Fresno - Bill McEwen - fresnobee.com - 0 views

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    "It hasn't been the best of times for Anne Lauvergeon, advocate of the nuclear option. Areva, the international energy company she heads, is behind schedule and over budget on a nuclear reactor in Finland. A South Korean group beat out Areva for a $20 billion contract in the United Arab Emirates. And, just this month, the French prime minister had to step in and save Lauvergeon's job at the firm, which is 90% owned by France's government. But these troubles didn't stop Lauvergeon from keeping a Fresno appointment to tout nuclear energy last week. "Atomic Anne" became one of the world's most powerful women by making tough sales, and now she wants the Holy Grail of nuclear ambition -- California."
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AREVA - United States: AREVA and FNEG sign MOU for clean energy park project in California - 0 views

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    "AREVA and Fresno Nuclear Energy Group (FNEG) today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a Clean Energy Park near Fresno, California, including nuclear and renewable generation. According to the MOU, AREVA and FNEG will work together on the site selection and initial development of a nominal 1,600 Megawatt U.S. EPR™ reactor. The agreement also includes potential development of other AREVA energy technologies such as concentrated solar power. "Our goal is to create a power-producing infrastructure that combines clean electric energy sources, including nuclear, solar, and future technologies," said John Hutson, president of FNEG."
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Recordnet.com: Nuclear possibilities - 0 views

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    If a nuclear power plant is built in Fresno - a highly unlikely proposition - then radioactive waste from that plant could pass through Stockton and its port on the way to France for reprocessing. Scary. Twenty years ago this month, the Department of Energy was to have begun accepting spent nuclear reactor fuel and other radioactive waste at its Yucca Mountain Repository in the desert 80 miles north of Las Vegas. The Energy Department began studying Yucca Mountain 10 years earlier, in 1978.
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Water deal for proposed nuclear plant in SJ Valley - 0 views

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    Promoters of a proposed nuclear power plant on the west side of Fresno County have signed a letter of intent with the Westlands Water District, which would provide water for reactor cooling and to produce steam. Officials of Nuclear Energy Group LLC said Tuesday that their proposal includes a desalinization facility to remove boron and selenium from groundwater.
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