Exelon Nuclear will close Victoria office, eliminate local community outreach position

Exelon Nuclear’s local office will close and Bill Harris’ position as manager of community outreach for Texas will be eliminated, Harris announced Tuesday.

“I was not laid off,” he said to about 60 people at the Victoria Economic Development Corporation’s Victoria Partnership meeting. “I still have a job, just not here.”

Exelon moves forward

…If Exelon takes over NRG, and thus Matagorda County’s South Texas Project nuclear site, the company would likely first build the two new reactors there - and extend a build date in Victoria County.

Hurricane could wipe out emergency center

The new center would be on an underground electrical grid, and it would have a generator for backup power. It also could provide room for an emergency center for Exelon if the company decides to build a nuclear plant in the county.

S. Texas’ hopes for new nuclear funds vanish

If the companies looking to build as many as four new nuclear reactors in South Texas are going to succeed, they’re going to have to do it without a massive infusion of federal financing from the stimulus package.

NRG’s nuclear plant expansion on track for funding

NRG Energy’s proposed expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear plant in Matagorda County is on a shortlist for federal loan guarantees that are key to moving the project forward…

Exelon Corp.’s plans for a new nuclear plant in Victoria did not make the shortlist of five projects.

Weighing benefits, costs of nuclear energy

Residents learn about revolving arguements at first day of lecture series.

In dry state, Central Texas has it worst

Central Texas had the highest rating of “exceptional” drought intensity. Travis, Hays, Bastrop and part of Williamson counties all fall under the hardest-hit 4.2 percent of the state.

Rancher fears radioactive water from nuclear plant would affect his cattle

John L. Gibbs worries what the release of radioactive water into the Guadalupe River would do to his cattle that drink from it.

Energy Group Shares Information

Daniel Rojas, a 61-year-old retiree, came to the nuclear power forum to see how a nuclear power plant would affect him.

Forum faces Nuclear Issues

A group of residents concerned about nuclear power coming to Victoria doesn’t think the city is giving it a “fair shake.”