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Ohio Senate votes to repeal nuclear plant subsidies
After months of unsuccessful efforts by Ohio lawmakers to contend with the fallout from H.B. 6—the now-infamous nuclear subsidies bill signed into law in 2019—the state’s senate on March 3 passed a measure, S.B. 44, to repeal those subsidies. The vote was 32–0.
For those who may need reminding, federal prosecutors on July 21, 2020, arrested Larry Householder, then speaker of the Ohio House, and four lobbyists and political consultants for their involvement in an alleged $61 million corruption and racketeering scheme aimed at guaranteeing passage of H.B. 6, whose subsidies had kept Ohio’s Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear power plants from premature closure.
H.B. 6 established a seven-year program to charge the state’s electricity consumers fees to support payments of about $150 million annually to the plants’ operator, Energy Harbor Corporation, then known as FirstEnergy Solutions (FES). FES had announced in March 2018 that it would be forced to close Davis-Besse and Perry without some form of support from the state. (The payments to Energy Harbor were blocked last December by an Ohio Supreme Court injunction, which complemented an earlier lower court ruling.)
W. Raskob, M. Velarde, J. M. Perlado
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 492-495
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Containment, Safety, and Environment | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A973
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Deterministic and probabilistic dose assessments for releases of tritium have been performed for the potential European ITER Site of Vandellós (Spain). Besides national regulatory models, internationally accepted computer codes such as NORMTRI (for normal conditions) and UFOTRI (for incidental/accidental conditions) were used for the calculations. The paper concentrates on releases of tritium in either HT or HTO form. Source terms from the ITER documentation (GSSR vol. IV and VII) have been used for the HT/HTO releases.The data base of NORMTRI/UFOTRI was adapted to the national regulatory prescriptions. This comprised in particular ingestion habits and dose conversion factors. Important for the calculations was also the selection of meteorological, demographic, nutritional and agricultural data. Meteorological data over a period of one year was used for the probabilistic calculations. Deterministic scenarios were selected to be as close as possible to other studies performed in the frame of ITER. Results of the assessments were early and chronic doses which have been evaluated for the Most Exposed Individual at particular distance bands from the release point.Of particular importance was the comparison between the regulatory and the advanced assessment models. Regulatory models for tritium are sometimes simplistic and are either too conservative or do not consider important processes which might lead to underestimation of the dose. This is for example the case with organically bound tritium which is often not considered in regulatory models but may dominate the dose from ingestion pathways. Therefore, this comparison provided the opportunity to evaluate the appropriateness of a national accepted tool. As the site of ITER was still to be defined, such a comparison was vital and might be also necessary for any other site to assure public confidence in the licensing procedure.