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I'll add a timeline when I get around to it. It's a fascinating story. The plant was closed a few days after the utility won a referendum that would have closed it. The reason appears to be that they'd already committed to closing the plant early, in order to win that vote and a previous one, and this commitment to early closure made fixing the steam tubes uneconomic. So, why go to the expense of the referendum at all? Maybe some legal and political types can tell us one day. Andrewa 20:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've added some history. Most of the web pages that used to describe the Trojan story seem to have been deleted since my last involvement in online discussion of Trojan. Others are now part of paid archives and I don't have access to them.

Some things I'd still like to add:

The precise date at which steam tube problems were first reported.

Actual dates of the state polls.

Dates of particular newsworthy demonstrations at the plant. It is claimed that on at least one occasion demonstrators entered the plant and assaulted plant workers, and were filmed by news cameras and arrested but not prosecuted. Others, while not denying that it happened, challenge the details of these accounts.

Dates of commitments by PGE to close the plant early.

Without these dates, a timeline just doesn't work! Andrewa 20:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some other questions:

What is the installed wind capacity now in Oregon?

The only large scale wind to date seems to be the Stateline Wind Project. Exactly what is installed and even planned seems to vary a lot depending on which site you're reading, 123 MW is the current installed figure from the Oregon government site. Andrewa 06:31, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In that it can be measured, how much have energy conservation measures made up for the lost capacity of Trojan?

Is the Trojan unit still the biggest PWR unit yet built, or have upgrades of others now overtaken it? 1130MWe is larger than any of the third generation LWR designs AFAIK, and the techniques used to scale up the steam generators to this capacity was a factor in their failure.

And I was quite wrong! The EPR is 1600 MWe. Andrewa 16:55, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Andrewa 01:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the words cooling towers into cooling tower. Trojan is only equipped with a single cooling tower, standing at 499 feet tall. KelsoKid18 17:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality

Who's the slantheaded admin who thinks that this article is not completely on center?

The Neutrality of the Page is disputed, when somebody edits the main text to include words like "rubbish" "This is incorrect" "charade" Somebody who has access to the correct facts need to fix this page.