[demlosers]

Areva, owned by the French government, competes for design and construction of power plants mainly with Westinghouse and General Electric Co.'s unit GE Energy.

Do we have a security problem here.

[demlosers]

Oops, forgot link:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-03-01T023840Z_01_N28307120_RTRUKOC_0_US-UTILITIES-AREVA-ABRAHAM.xml&archived=False

[Plutarch]

The Left is against nuclear power solely because it would be so effective. They can't have the U.S capitalist economy functioning well.

If Cuba were to develop nuclear power plants the Left would celebrate Castro's achievement.

[jazusamo]

I read this as only building at existing sites. Are they talking about expanding or replacing reactors? By using existing sites, can they get around the enviros objections, anyone know?

[Threepwood]

Well given that you'll fuel it with Canadian uranium (more than likely) I wouldn't panic too much.:) People might have issues with the French, but they make one hell of a reactor.

[Londo Molari]

Next item on the agenda -- reprocessing of spent fuel. Bet you guys didn't know that only about 5% of the fuel is actually used up during a "cycle" (which is approximately 6 years). That is, only about 5% of the enriched uranium is "burned" before the fuel assembly starts to become too inefficient for power generation.

Reprocessing that fuel would allow the US to pull out the 95% unused fuel and repackage it in new fuel assemblies. But Jimmy Carter forbid that, so we are left with lots and lots of nuclear waste with usuable fuel still in it.