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First new nuclear reactors OK'd in over 30 years
CNN Breaking News ^ | 2/9/12 | Steve Hargreaves

Posted on 02/09/2012 10:22:34 AM PST by kidd

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To: Buckeye McFrog
These will never be built.

They are already pretty well along on construction. Watch the video at the link.

All site prep work completed, heavy lift cranes in place, support building and offices completed, long lead time components (i.e reactor, steam generators, coolant pumps, turbines etc.) ordered and in manufacture. Now with the NRC issuing the COL, they can start pouring concrete in earnest. Obama and the watermellons can't stop this now.

61 posted on 02/09/2012 12:45:27 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: DNA.2012

Ignorance is the greatest health hazard.

Fearmongering doesn’t mask ignorance.


62 posted on 02/09/2012 12:45:27 PM PST by kidd
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To: bagman
Steam generators and perhaps pressurizers were built at the Westinghouse facility in Pensacola (have no idea what happened to it).

For a while, Westinghouse Steam Generators and Pressurizers were built in Tampa while Pensacola made the RV Internals. When the industry slowed down all of that was moved to Pensacola.

The Coolant Pumps and Control Rod Drives were made in Cheswick, PA. That facility is still operating and now owned by Curtis Wright. I'd imagine that they will get a chunk of this work.

63 posted on 02/09/2012 12:53:32 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: GoldenPup

That’s my take, also; though I’m sure the permitting process began long before the obamessiah took power. He just didn’t stop it, this close to his re-election bid.


64 posted on 02/09/2012 12:54:42 PM PST by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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To: kidd

Betcha the licenses get pulled the day after the first Tuesday in November...


65 posted on 02/09/2012 12:54:50 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
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To: kidd

Don’t hold your breath. I’ll believe it when I see it, especially with this EPA.


66 posted on 02/09/2012 12:55:10 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: Moonman62
Fossil fueled energy plants are much more economical.

They are cheeper to build, but not to operate. In operation, Nukes have the lowest costs.

67 posted on 02/09/2012 12:55:54 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: DNA.2012
Nuclear power plants should be stopped. They are a health hazard.

What is your alternative?

68 posted on 02/09/2012 12:59:07 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (The damage is too extensive. Burn it down and start over.)
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To: Hoffer Rand
I’ll believe it when I see it, especially with this EPA.

The EPA has no jurisdiction over nuclear. Neither does OSHA. Nukes are all under the NRC.

69 posted on 02/09/2012 12:59:18 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: entropy12
But it never produced any power. Reason?

An ultra-lib Democrat governor named Cumo.

I don't think GA is going to have that problem.

70 posted on 02/09/2012 1:00:26 PM PST by Tribune7 (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: Drill Thrawl; DNA.2012

“What is your alternative?”


Thorium reactors

http://www.thorium.tv/en/thorium_reactor/thorium_reactor_1.php


71 posted on 02/09/2012 1:01:49 PM PST by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: Ditto
In operation, Nukes have the lowest costs.

Not when loan payments, loan guarantees, liability caps, and special insurance laws are factored in. And they do have to be factored in.

72 posted on 02/09/2012 1:02:27 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Ditto

That hasn’t stopped this administration yet.


73 posted on 02/09/2012 1:05:30 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: nuke rocketeer
Once the COL is issued, only the NRC can stop construction activities.

Who controls the NRC?

74 posted on 02/09/2012 1:07:04 PM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% MORE sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: entropy12
Tsunami’s & massive earthquakes do not happen in most places.

And Fukushima Daiichi's mid-1960s tech survived the earthquake and would have probably survived the tsuanmi as well but for human error.

75 posted on 02/09/2012 1:15:26 PM PST by Tribune7 (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: Falcon4.0

Another Carter Era folly redux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Nuclear_Power_Plant

“The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was a completed General Electric nuclear boiling water reactor located adjacent to the Long Island Sound in East Shoreham, New York. The plant was built between 1973 and 1984 by the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), but never operated.”

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1005.frank.html


76 posted on 02/09/2012 1:30:01 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I’ll take that bet!


77 posted on 02/09/2012 1:36:35 PM PST by bagman
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To: Drill Thrawl

Most other things.

For example, I’d rather deal with spilled oil than spilled nuclear waste.

Wouldn’t you?


78 posted on 02/09/2012 1:58:35 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: ConservaTexan
We're building nuclear plants again!

Not in my back yard you ain't !!

Just kidding, mostly ...
79 posted on 02/09/2012 2:05:08 PM PST by Scythian
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To: DNA.2012

Electricity, like ignorance, is a health hazard. Lucky for you no one is out to ban either.


80 posted on 02/09/2012 2:09:06 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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