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Investors envision nuclear reactors for Amarillo

Started by nmindependent · 9 months ago

Eastern New Mexico could have some new nuclear neighbors in the next decade or so if an Amarillo, Texas, land developer’s plan comes off as proposed.
A joint venture between Amarillo Power, which is the brainchild of developer George Chapman, and UniStar Nuclear Energy is condu ... Continue reading »

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  • Joel -

    I'd be curious on your thoughts, having spent the time recently looking closely at the nuclear power question, as to how realistic this Amarillo project is. I've been generally putting power plant proposals into "realistic" and "unrealistic" bins. All of my "realistic" ones involve known nuclear power players building at sites of existing power plants, and this one doesn't fit that criteria.
  • Good question, John. I'd be more skeptical if the developer, George Chapman, hadn't rounded up UniStar, which consists of two major players
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