Posted on 07/07/2006 7:14:26 PM PDT by snowsislander
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced plans to enter the emerging US reactor market with a version of its advanced pressurised water reactor (APWR), which will be branded the ‘US-APWR’.
The Japanese company has also launched a subsidiary, MHI Nuclear Energy Systems (MNES), based in Washington, to handle the process, market the reactor and attract orders for replacement nuclear power components.
Two similar APWR units are planned for construction at Tsuruga in Japan to produce 1538MWe each for Japan Atomic Power Company. American units, however, would feature modifications MHI say US companies demand. Improvements include greater economy through the increase of capacity to 1700MWe, a 20% reduction in plant building volume and a level of thermal efficiency which MHI claim is the world’s best: 39%.
MHI expect to receive design certification of the US-APWR from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of 2011; a preliminary hearing will be conducted in July and the formal application will be submitted in early 2008.
Mitsubishi’s APWR was developed from Westinghouse PWR designs during a collaboration between the two companies to produce a reactor for the Japanese market but Hiroshi Inoue, vice president of MNES told, a news conference: "Now that our development partner Westinghouse Electric has been bought by Toshiba, we need to start doing business on our own, and decided to enter the US market."
Good we need alot of nuke plants. Im tired of these idiotc regimes the US has to deal with.Anything that can help us is nice.
Typo master
Good luck. Surely Mitsubishi knows about our wonderful anti-nuclear anything activists.
Excellent news. It's a damned shame it's not an American company, but unlike Japan and France, our environmentalist killed our nuclear power plant construction industry before we got beyond the every-reactor-custom-designed phase. (Automobiles when through that before Ford.)
Yes, I think that seeing the Japanese jump into this market is an encouraging sign.
The Japanese will just come up with a catchy slogan to slap back at the anti-nukers like:
"Until you've been Nuked, STFU"
or
"we've been nuked....it's not so bad."
Toshiba is purchasing Westinghouse Electric Company, whose sole business is nuclear power plant design and supply. Plans have been announced for about 16 domestic nuclear plants; twelve of these are for the Westinghouse AP-1000 (Advanced Passive - 1000 MWe).
The Japanese don't have the luxury of oil fields to ignore. Check out the density of nuke plants there:
http://nuctrans.org/Nuc_Trans/locations/japan/japan.htm
Three guesses as to why.
or
"we've been nuked....it's not so bad."
You're b-a-a-a-a-d!:)
Have them irradiated. That would assure sterility.
They already seem to be sterilizing themselves. It's really funny to read blue voters screaming and yelling that the red voters are out-breeding them by huge numbers.:)
Green on green fights -- bring lots of popcorn.
That would be worth even shelling out for cotton candy and hot dogs.
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