Posted on 04/08/2008 5:04:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Westinghouse strikes deal to build US nuclear power plants Apr 8 07:52 PM US/Eastern
Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Georgia Power to build two nuclear power plants in the southern United States, the first such projects in 30 years.
The two Westinghouse AP1000 power plants will be located at a site near Augusta, Georgia which already had two existing nuclear reactors.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
In related news the president announced ANWR drilling would be commenced in five minutes and Ted Kennedy would be committed to the Yuri I. Nosenko Rehabilitation Center.
Adding there are beds for the next five hundred opposition legislators.
Except for this part.
“Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp”
I thought I heard they sold the rights to the Chicoms?
Excellent. We could use a few hundred more.
I wonder if these are going to be the low grade pebble type reactors?
having been a navy nuke, i find this astounding news.
When they start construction here in California I’ll know things are looking up. This is a good start, though.
This deserves an Oregon ping since Oregon State University did the research on this design by making a 1/4 scale model. Go Beavs. This design utilizes many passive safety systems and relies on the laws of physics and is the safest design on the planet.
too cheap to meter bump
Two is a start, but fifty would be a good start.
Another good point - Toshiba sold classified US submarine technology to the Soviets (IMHO, FU Toshiba). Which is why I will never, ever, buy anything with "Toshiba" (now including Westinghouse) on the label ...
Thank you, Westinghouse!!!! About time.
Hooray!!!
I heard the only company that can cast the reactor vessels is Japan Steel Works, and they have a four-year backlog....
No I believe it is based on the time tested Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) design.
Kinda,
Westinghouse was a once proud and mighty United States Company that is now owned by a foreign power. We no longer possess the manufacturing muscle to manufacture a nuclear power plant on our own. So good that we are going nuke, very, very bad that we cannot manufacture them ourselves.
They are wanting to build a nuclear power plant about 40 miles south of me in south Texas and the ranchers, etc, are fighting it.
Many local studies going on now as to water usage [Guadalupe River], and water well and ground soil contamination.
I have never desired to live near one and there was just mention of some sort of ‘leakage’ at one a few days ago.
Geeze, if they keep this up, the entire Southeast will be glowing :)
Westinghouse was the major contractor behind the technology in our RADAR sets. These were sets debuting in Korea and making it through my generation. I had no idea Toshiba bought them. crap
Don't get me wrong, I am for it, but isn't what they said about the TMI design as I look at it out my window. Two stacks steaming, two stacks dead forever.
No these are advanced design PWRs using the standard fuel bundle approach. This is not to say that the bundle design is standard.
Good point!
Really? You mean the part about how British Nuclear Fuels and Toshiba had the common sense to keep American technology alive while we have had our collective heads up our national arse on nuclear energy?
Yeah. Shame on Toshiba for supporting American industry when AMERICA refused to.
Are your referring to HL&P South Texas Project (If they have not sold it)?
Good Old Toshiba, the company that stole our run silent submarine technology from the Navy.
Thank you for bringing that up. It should not be forgotten.
I’ll give Toshiba credit for moving ahead, I just hate to see foreign companies take our stalwarts over.
Typically safe design until the NRC comes in and screws everything up with absurd regulation about tagging valves.
yeah, 2 getting built is good news....but we need 98 more
Didn’t they help bring us Pearl Harbor too???
Same here. I’ve refused all Toshiba products since they betrayed this nation. I didn’t realize Westinghouse was on their books. Westinghouse is a company non-grata from this point on.
And Mitsubishi built some of the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor. You boycotting them too?
Really? You mean the part about how British Nuclear Fuels and Toshiba had the common sense to keep American technology alive while we have had our collective heads up our national arse on nuclear energy?
Yeah. Shame on Toshiba for supporting American industry when AMERICA refused to.
Yeah. Why don't we just boycott Toshiba! When after all, America decided she didn't want nuclear in her backyard since TMI, we should have put Westinghouse Nuclear COMPLETELY out of business, and now we could be looking at some European company building nukes in the US.
Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Wilford Brimley and Jack Lemmon proved nuclear reactors are a dangerous threat to be blocked at all cost in China Syndrome (1979).
Obviously France is suppressing news of its reactor deaths.
DDT would save a million kids a year but enviros don't care about saving lives.
“I wonder if these are going to be the low grade pebble type reactors?”
No I believe it is based on the time tested Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) design.
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Yes it is a PWR design ,, Westinghouse has a nice site .. http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/ap1000_glance.html
Pardon my ignorance, but does "supporting American industry" include selling American submarine propeller technology to the Soviets (who, just as a reminder, butchered many more people than Hitler)?
FWIW, knock yourself out...
Fair enough. But it is OUR own damn fault for letting the greenies win. It really should be "Domo Arigato, Mr. Nuke Engineero," when we needed him.
I live in Fuquay-Varina, NC and can see the steam plume from Shearon Harris nuclear power plant from my back yard if the sky is clear. I have no worries. Also built by Westinghouse.
Oh, you mean like the super secret props that our own Navy let Google take pix of?
[HL&P South Texas Project]
No, it’s not Houston Lighting and Power if that is what you are referring to. This will be in the Refugio, Texas area.
No, REALLY it is about sharing technology with our enemies. Giving our enemies advantages that we alone once possessed.
The average American didnt decide anything sport. The corrupt politicians caved to the radical 60s nutjobs regarding nuke fuels. Kinda the squeaky wheel rule. The average American didnt have a say. We havent in awhile. Wake up!
Well yeah.
Even worse, a French company possibly!
Our water from the river is already being taken over by San Antonio north of us and nuke plants use HUGE amounts of water.
Do you want one in your backyard? I did a Google a few months ago and there are many more accidents at these plants than most people are aware of!
To be more accurate it was Koenigsberg a Norwegian subsidiary of Toshiba that sold sub propeller milling machinery to the Soviets.
See article at Imprimus; most info concerning nuclear power, even nuclear waste disposal, has been misreported.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=02
Sorry, d!psh!t, but Japan was not supposedly our "ally" on 12/07/41. For whatever it's worth, my wife & I have owned Mitsubishi automobiles (note the plural - & they didn't last as long as our American vehicles, even with extra maintenance/replacement parts, some of which was paid for by the Mitsubishi 'factory')...
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