HB78

HB78

N.P.P Nuclear Pollution Prevention


 * Bill: HB78 **
 * Sponsors: L/Beckstrom,Louisiana,Democrat LBeckstrom **
 * N/Castellano,NorthCarolina,Republican NCastellano **
 * Category: Environmental and Energy **
 * Title: NPP, Nuclear Pollution Prevention **

** Purpose: ** Our purpose for writing this bill is to slowly shut down Nuclear power plants not all but some, all of theNuclear Power Plants that are stationed around the Nation polluting the air, water, and land. 1.The radiation can also cause cancer in people and animals. 2.Cancer kills 10.9 million people a year and many cases have been about Nuclear Power Plants emiting harmful chemicals. 3.In a nuclear power plant there is a generator that produces the spark to turn the turbine next, their is a jet of steam that turns the turbine and finally there is the radioactive uranium bundle that heats water into steam. This is the nuclear reactor core 4.An unstable atom within the reactor gives off excess energy (radiation) until it becomes stable again. This can take a lot of time. 5. In the United States, there are 104 nuclear power plants that all supply 20 percent of the electricity we use. 6. Also nearly 3 million americans live within 10 miles of an operating nuclear power plant. With this some states benefit more than others. Also the chemicals that have been previously burned are still around for millions of years until the radioactive waste dies down. This can be very harmful to the environment. If we slowly, or better yet quickly, get rid of nuclear power plants the more lives we will save and less harm shall be done to our enviornment.

** Eligibility: ** Our bill will apply to everyone that lives in the United States first starting out as an experimental process if it works out then we shall progress to a larger expansion. It will mostly include bigger cities and states that contain nuclear power plants. This is because they emite the most pollution and the smog that lies in the cities can trap the nuclear chemicals that are hazordous in the air.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Terms and Benefits: **
====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The bill that we propose will work through the following. As part of the experimental process we shall first put our bill into action into only two states these states are North Carolina and Louisiana.The plants in these two states shall be in North Carolina: Brunswick in Brunswick County because it is closest to the ocean, and in Louisiana it will be River Bend in West Feliciana Parish since it is on a river. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This first experimental process shall last for only an amount of a two year term starting on May 12th 2014 and ending on May 12th 2016. Then if it works we shall progress onward to more states this list includes: Pennsalvania's Limerick in Montgomery County because of, Wisconsin's Point Beach in Manitowoc County because it is the first built in Wisconsin and is very old, and New York's Indian Point (units one and two) because of their many occurences with being unsafe and their license expiration being the closest in 2013 and 2015. If both of these two year terms work, then we shall expand to eventually the whole country.In addition we will have all the states that have a strong water source to have a hydroelectric power plant put in to replace the nuclear power plant we shut down. For example Louisiana has the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. Also North Carolina has the Pamlico Sound. This would be one alternate energy source. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Then we would have the states that do not have a strong water source to put at least one wind turbine into one of their major cities. Examples for this would be: Montana and Wyoming. This part of the plan would happen in one of the major cities because of the reason mentioned in the Eligibility section. The wind turbines would also be an alternate energy source. During or after each of these phases the nuclear power plants would slowly start to close. In this changing of the energy source many people would lose jobs that worked at the power plants, but many jobs would be made with the passing of the bill because the original workers for the shut down nuclear power plants would be rehired for operating the new hydroelectric plants and the turbines. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">After all this change, eventually all the nuclear power plants will be closed and a whole lot less pollution would be thrown into the atmosphere. Both the hydroelectric power plant and the wind turbines would create enough power that will erase the pollution making nuclear power plants. With this bill we shall not shut down all Nuclear power plants in the nation, this bill is created to shut down only a few plants it is not intended to make all shut down. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">**Fiscal Impact:** Our bill is meant to be one of the cheapest energy/enviornmental bills. Our aimed price is 5,313,970. The equipment cost would be $5,000,000 because the turbines would be estimated at $2,000,000 and the hydroelectric plant(s) would cost the same.Workers would be $1,000,000. Marketing would be only $1,050 because the t.v. station commercials would be $1,000 because we would run only a few commercials, and we would run a couple of newspaper ads for $50. The labor cost for our bill would be $38,000 for a number of 50 staff to run the wind turbines counting only 2 for every one, and there would be $20,000 for only seven employees to run the hydroelectric plants. The cost for energy would be only a $500 cost because water would be no cost and the same is for wind...but for the price of methane (pigs to power the methane). Transportation would be $1,000 because we would need a few semi-trucks to deliver the equipment. The cost of education would be $10,000 for the payment of the teachers teaching the new workers. The legal cost would be the protection from enviornmentalists and legal matters attended to by lawyers, the cost together would be $230,420. Finally the cost for the other "materials" would be $33,000 because the estimated plot of land would be $11,000 for hydroplants, and $22,00 for turbines. All of these estimated costs end up at a total of $5,313,970. ==== Cost || $ 5,313,970 ||
 * **Item** || **Cost** ||
 * Equipment || $5,000,000 ||
 * Marketing || $1,050 ||
 * Labor || $38,000 ||
 * Energy || $ 500 ||
 * Transportation || $ 1,000 ||
 * Education || $10,000 ||
 * Legal || $230,420 ||
 * Other || $33,000 ||
 * Total Estimated