Exelon Corporation (EXC)

(04-21-08) We are all a product of our environment. Exelon Corporation (EXC)

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[sweetypie000]

stick it in her ass

[coskimom1]

I bet you couldn't run this video on you tube without Excelon.

[Chickns23]

Coal plants exhaust into the atmosphere, no matter how many filters it may go through, it's still polluted and released into the atmosphere. Nuclear waste is controlled pollution and can be stored.

Also nuclear power plants use uranium in the U.S., not plutonium.

I fail to find anything on the web that says that uranium enrichment takes up a lot of energy, more so than mining coal or oil. Please point me in the right direction.

[robertpoulton]

It requires more energy to mine and enrich plutonium then it does to mine and refine coal.

[robertpoulton]

You're looking into the wrong costs. Look into the energy costs to produce one megawatt of nuclear vs coal.

[gneerg]

ormat was probably the funniest episode yet... sorry julie, i actually like you know, but lindsy and the "jouel" was amazing...

[robertpoulton]

The enrichment process required for nuclear reactors to use plutonium requires a lot of energy, more than that of mining either coal or oil. Nothing is more efficient end-to-end then coal. Oil is a distant second, distant.

Then there is the radioactive waste to consider. Coal, though I don't care for it meets all our energy needs and is in greater quantity then oil. Harnessing cleaner coal technology will meet our energy needs better then nuclear.

Do the research yourself.

[Chickns23]

Oh and the transportation cost of bringing the coal to the plants is not a factor with a nuclear plant. But I did just look up the average cost per megawatt hour for both, nuclear was 30.0 and coal was 29.1. Not much more efficient with the environmental gains.

[Chickns23]

Requires a lot of energy to get the materials? Not only is that vague it is obvious. Coal is in mountains, you mine it and refine it. A nuclear reactor and it's components I would hope are harder to get. And efficiency, nuclear plants run at around 98% efficiency, any better and that's statistically insignificant.

[robertpoulton]

Nuclear might be clean but it requires a lot energy to get the materials. Coal on the other hand requires little energy to bring to market and produce great amounts of power. Nuclear is less efficient.