Seabrook Station not ready for McCain's nuclear plans

[jpak]

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/GJNEWS_01/488230042

ROCHESTER — Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain believes the country needs to build 100 more nuclear power plants to achieve independence from foreign oil.

He also told 700 supporters at a Town Meeting event Tuesday at the Rochester Opera House that he would be willing to revisit the Seabrook Unit 2 reactor project that Florida Power & Light officials dismantled in 2003.

But officials at FPL Energy, which owns and operates Seabrook Station, have previously said they have no intention of building a second nuclear reactor even though Seabrook is licensed to have two reactors by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. FPL Energy is a subsidiary of FPL Group in Florida.

Alan Griffith, a spokesman for FPL Energy and Seabrook Station, said Wednesday that the company's position has not changed following McCain's remarks.

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[DCKit]

1. The writing's on the wall - No handouts from an Obama administration...

and no sense sucking up to McLoser in the meantime.

[trof]

2. Ah, Seabrook. "Electricity too cheap to meter."

We were house hunting in southern NH in the early summer of 1977.
Found a house we really liked. It was all electric.
I asked the realtor what he thought the average monthly electric bill might run.

He told me that once the Seabrook nuclear plant came on line the word was that the electricity would be too cheap to meter. Not worth going to the expense of buying and installing meters.
They would probably just charge a monthly fee of $10-$15 for all the power you could use.

Our first winter month electric bill was $200.
Thereafter we heated with a wood stove and fireplace, then a coal stove, and finally had an oil fired, forced air system installed.

"Too cheap to meter."
:rofl: