Posted on 03/10/2006 12:04:26 PM PST by Willie Green
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham will join Areva as chairman of its board of directors.
Areva is the U.S. subsidiary of the French-owned nuclear company. Areva has been aggressively marketing its advanced-design power reactor to American utilities and hopes Abraham will help that cause as board chairman.
Areva, Westinghouse and General Electric are each developing a new generation of power reactors.
Some industry executives believe more than a dozen new reactors could be built over the next 15 years.
Abraham is a former senator from Michigan. He has also served as President Bush's energy secretary during the president's first term.
I'm apparently out of the loop. When did Abraham leave his post?
Last year.
Ann Coulter once worked as an aide to Abraham when he was a Senator.
Nuke - one of the few things froggies do right.
From the Areva web site. He may be just a vanity director and possible rain maker.
In the spirit of the week, we must kick the French co out of the country and send Abraham back where his family came from, Lebanon, I think. /sarc
Yes we can not allow a foreign company to build dangerous nuclear reactors in the US! Can Haliburton build them?
I admit, I had almost completely forgotten about Spence until I read the Gail Norton Resigns thread.
So I thought I'd do a little Googling to see what the weasel was up to --- and this is what I came up with.
Oh, and here's a related story that I just posted: Program to turn plutonium bombs into fuel hits snags
For those who do not know, he is also one of the founders of the Federalist Society.
Yeah I thought that was great.
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