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construction allow for hundreds of millions of dollars to be taken from electricity customers,
he fled from the Kangaroo Express in a
even if the reactors in question fail to be constructed and never generate a single kilowatt
southeasterly direction. The sheriff’s office
of power. The request for denial would be that the reactors are no longer needed and and
has not yet confirmed whether or not a ve-
would result in billions of dollars of excess costs being needlessly imposed on consumers.
hicle was involved. No one was injured dur-
Gunderson said the companies were relying on the AP1000 reactor design, which
ing the robbery.
is not currently approved and has at least 2 major unresolved design and safety issues that
The suspect is described as a white
U S regulators are insisting be addressed. That is going to mean more delay and higher costs.
male in his early 20s, 5 feet 7 inches tall and
When the selected design for a proposed Florida reactor is not certified hurricane proof, it is
weighing about 160 pounds. He has blue
very difficult to see how anything is going to get done any time soon.
eyes, and his brown hair is buzz-cut. At the
Cooper emphasized the dramatic changes in key variables that rendered nuclear re-
time of the robbery, he was wearing blue
actors uneconomic and unnecessary: Declining natural gas costs, Declining estimates of car-
jean shorts, white and blue tennis shoes, and
bon prices, declining demand due to economic slowdown, reduced need for nonrenewable
a black sweatshirt-type hoodie that was on
generation due to increased energy efficiency, Fast rising projections of nuclear construction
backward, so that the hood covered his face;
costs and the high degree of uncertainty in the economic environment that new reactors face.
holes had been cut out, allowing the man to
You can read this entire story on at The Newscaster as well as hear the Inglis Town
see and speak. He also was wearing gloves.
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Woman confesses to stealing items from Inglis store
Grace L. Summerlin, 28, Williston, was issued a Notice to Appear for petit theft
by the Inglis Police Department on Aug. 7. According to the report, police were sent to the
Inglis Citgo gas station due to a retail theft in progress around 7:22 p.m.
The officer reported that when he arrived at the store, Summerlin was leaving the
store “with a large amount of food items sticking out from her bathing suit.” The officer
asked her to remove the items from her clothing, and she removed food/snack items from
her swimsuit bottom and top, and confessed to having stolen them. The items totaled $8.33.
The store clerk and a witness stated they had seen her placing the items into her bathing suit.
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