Nuclear power push follows subsidies to boost new reactors
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness head Mal McKibben welcomed the plan as beneficial for the country and South Carolina. Congress has approved subsidies to promote new reactor construction, including insurance against regulatory delay losses. No new U S commercial plant has opened in over 30 years. SCANA and Santee Cooper co own the V C Summer site, with extensions to 2042 but looming needs for new units in 2012 and 2015 as growth requires more power and the utility plans coal turbines in the near term.
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Lonnie Carter
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FRA report urges safety gear after derailment chlorine release
The NTSB says emergency breathing could have saved the engineer Christopher Seeling who died from chlorine inhalation after a crash. It cites a 2004 Macdona incident as similar and urges tank car placement changes and lower speeds to reduce puncture risk and chlorine release.
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Christopher Seeling
Macdona
Texas
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Aiken County
Norfolk Southern
NTSB
Seville
Literacy outreach promotes reading with Hello Cocky book
Literacy advocates urge active student involvement as Sorensen funds 5000 copies of Hello Cocky! for statewide distribution. Mascot Books supplied the books at $1 each while Busbee K-12 staff present Cocky with an ornament for the school literacy tree.
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Rob Novit
USC
Cocky
Justin Williams
Busbee Elementary
Williams
Mascot Books
Sorensen
Mary Saladyga
Busbeek
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