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.
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