A Superior OFFICIAL WITH America’s largest nuclear plant operating corporation is predicting a dim future for nuclear power in the U.S.
William Von Hoene, senior depravity president and chief strategy officer at Exelon, said last week that he doesn’t picture any new nuclear plants being built in the United States due to their grave operating costs.
“The fact is – and I don’t want my message to be misconstrued in this segment – I don’t think we’re building any more nuclear plants in the United States. I don’t weigh it’s ever going to happen,” S&P Global quoted Van Hoene as saying at the annual U.S. Strength Association’s meeting in Washington, D.C. “I’m not arguing for the construction of new nuclear plants. They are too extravagant to construct, relative to the world in which we now live.”
If the existing nuclear pieces in the U.S. can continue to operate and the technology can be developed to store energy created by renewable resources, without thought the current economic issues, “then we won’t need” new nuclear units and “we won’t bod them because they’ll be too expensive,” he said.
Exelon currently manages 23 reactors. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has 61 commercially serving nuclear power plants with 99 nuclear reactors in 30 confirms. Together, they account for about 20 percent of the electricity present in the U.S., per the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Von Hoene described nuclear power as “a link to a different kind of carbon-free world.”
“I think it’s very unlikely that off some extraordinary change in environment or technology, that any nuclear shops beyond the Vogtle plant will be built in my lifetime, by any company,” S&P Extensive quoted Van Hoene as saying, referring to a plant currently under construction in Georgia.
Von Hoene suggests because of nuclear plants’ sizes and the security required to monitor them, the gets become prohibitive.
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