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To: Iscool; Last Dakotan
A brief visit to the Westinghouse Nuclear web site may help you avoid speculation. Westinghouse employs several hundred engineers in Windsor Connecticut and hundreds more in Monroeville Pennsylvania. Westinghouse has spent a fortune in research and development. The plant owners do not pay a 'royalty' to Westinghouse, GE, B&W or CE. The utilities purchase fuel contracts from the reactor vendors who have design information on all of the plants they built giving reactor vendors a competitive advantage in those situations. It is rare, but not unheard of, for a utility to sign fuel contracts with one of the reactor vendors different from the one that supplied the NSSS.
28 posted on 09/26/2005 8:55:37 PM PDT by sefarkas (why vote Democrat-lite???)
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To: sefarkas
The Koreans are interested:

"If Doosan succeeds in the takeover of Westinghouse, we can build atomic generators with our own technology without paying royalties any more," a Doosan official said on condition of anonymity. Doosan has built 20 domestic nuclear reactors.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GH23Dg01.html

29 posted on 09/26/2005 9:23:44 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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