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Some good news for a Tuesday....
1 posted on 04/08/2008 5:04:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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Excellent.

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.

2 posted on 04/08/2008 5:08:27 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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Except for this part.

“Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp”


3 posted on 04/08/2008 5:08:48 PM PDT by Boblo
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I thought I heard they sold the rights to the Chicoms?


4 posted on 04/08/2008 5:09:28 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ( "He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke, 1690)
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Excellent. We could use a few hundred more.

I wonder if these are going to be the low grade pebble type reactors?


5 posted on 04/08/2008 5:09:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain is rock solid on SCOTUS judicial appointments. He voted for Ginsberg, Kennedy and Souter.)
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having been a navy nuke, i find this astounding news.


6 posted on 04/08/2008 5:10:41 PM PDT by brivette
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When they start construction here in California I’ll know things are looking up. This is a good start, though.


7 posted on 04/08/2008 5:11:03 PM PDT by bubbacluck
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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.


8 posted on 04/08/2008 5:12:19 PM PDT by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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too cheap to meter bump


9 posted on 04/08/2008 5:13:47 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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Two is a start, but fifty would be a good start.


10 posted on 04/08/2008 5:14:08 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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Thank you, Westinghouse!!!! About time.


12 posted on 04/08/2008 5:16:07 PM PDT by madison10
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Hooray!!!

I heard the only company that can cast the reactor vessels is Japan Steel Works, and they have a four-year backlog....


13 posted on 04/08/2008 5:16:28 PM PDT by dadgum ("Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.")
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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.


15 posted on 04/08/2008 5:17:39 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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And just a couple of days ago there was an article about two being built here in South Carolina.

Geeze, if they keep this up, the entire Southeast will be glowing :)

17 posted on 04/08/2008 5:18:13 PM PDT by upchuck (Who wins doesn't matter. They're all liberals. Spend your time and money to take back Congress.)
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"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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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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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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Virginia Power is gearing up to add another to the 2 Lake Anna nukes that have been running there without incident for 25 years.


64 posted on 04/08/2008 5:54:43 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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If “Kim Voluntarily Steps Down, Dissolves North Korean Dictatorship” and “Iranian Mullahs Overthrown” are a 10, then this story is a 5 or 6 on the Welcome News Scale.


69 posted on 04/08/2008 6:02:03 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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And I thought Westinghouse made cheap toasters.....


104 posted on 04/08/2008 6:30:17 PM PDT by softengine (Hypocrisy plays on both sides of the fence.......but no one will admit it.)
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I'm pretty amazed that this thread is already showing up in a Google search for "toshiba lathes soviet union", which I used to find the NY Times article.

Frankly, these days I'm less worried about the Soviets of 20 years ago than this.

108 posted on 04/08/2008 6:31:43 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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