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Westinghouse strikes deal to build US nuclear power plants [the first such projects in 30 years....]
Brietbart ^

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; georgia; nuclear; nuclearpower; toshiba; westinghouse
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To: Who is John Galt?

Good point!


21 posted on 04/08/2008 5:22:41 PM PDT by homeguard ((Charlie Don't Surf!))
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To: Boblo; Sub-Driver; Who is John Galt?
Except for this part. “Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp”

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.

22 posted on 04/08/2008 5:23:33 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: rednesss
I respectfully disagree. The ABWR is the safest design currently available on the plant. But the PWR guys are not “that far” behind. :D)
23 posted on 04/08/2008 5:25:11 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: potlatch

Are your referring to HL&P South Texas Project (If they have not sold it)?


24 posted on 04/08/2008 5:25:34 PM PDT by Boblo
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To: Sub-Driver
"Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp"

Good Old Toshiba, the company that stole our run silent submarine technology from the Navy.

25 posted on 04/08/2008 5:26:31 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: Who is John Galt?

Thank you for bringing that up. It should not be forgotten.


26 posted on 04/08/2008 5:27:06 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: sam_paine

I’ll give Toshiba credit for moving ahead, I just hate to see foreign companies take our stalwarts over.


27 posted on 04/08/2008 5:27:18 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: AGreatPer

Typically safe design until the NRC comes in and screws everything up with absurd regulation about tagging valves.


28 posted on 04/08/2008 5:27:44 PM PDT by Boblo
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To: Sub-Driver

yeah, 2 getting built is good news....but we need 98 more


29 posted on 04/08/2008 5:28:17 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." W 2001)
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To: Nuc1

Didn’t they help bring us Pearl Harbor too???


30 posted on 04/08/2008 5:28:40 PM PDT by Boblo
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To: Who is John Galt?

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.


31 posted on 04/08/2008 5:29:58 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: Who is John Galt?

And Mitsubishi built some of the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor. You boycotting them too?


32 posted on 04/08/2008 5:31:03 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: homeguard; eyedigress; potlatch
Except for this part. “Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp”

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.

33 posted on 04/08/2008 5:31:10 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: AGreatPer
Same basic technology, different design. As I recall TMI is a Babcox and Wilcox design PWR. Too small a pressurizer compounded by significant operator errors killed TMI.
34 posted on 04/08/2008 5:31:15 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Sub-Driver; All
Love it!
Need to build about 200 more.
Stop using coal and natural gas for electricity.
Use coal for CTL (coal to liquid) and natural gas for (gas to liquid) transportation fuels.
In this way we could become energy self sufficient in a couple of decades.
Pass a law that we can't use natural gas for electricity production. If California doesn't like it-tough. Let them have blackouts. Or let them build more Nuclear power plants!
35 posted on 04/08/2008 5:31:45 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough)
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To: potlatch
My good friend from high school went Navy subs, then trained reactor operators worldwide. We don't do Chernobyl.

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.

36 posted on 04/08/2008 5:32:17 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: rednesss

“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


37 posted on 04/08/2008 5:33:55 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: sam_paine
Yeah. Shame on Toshiba for supporting American industry when AMERICA refused to.

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...

38 posted on 04/08/2008 5:34:31 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ( "He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke, 1690)
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To: eyedigress
I’ll give Toshiba credit for moving ahead, I just hate to see foreign companies take our stalwarts over.

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.

39 posted on 04/08/2008 5:34:59 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: potlatch
I have never desired to live near one and there was just mention of some sort of ‘leakage’ at one a few days ago.

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.

40 posted on 04/08/2008 5:35:16 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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