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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: Question_Assumptions

Frankly, I don’t like Microslop, but I’m forced to do business with them. The same is not true of Toshiba...


101 posted on 04/08/2008 6:27:07 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: potlatch
"No deaths at Three Mile Island meltdown but what has been the follow up on cancer and related medical problems?"

MHO, this has been one of the biggest cover ups in US history. I know, I live here and have seen it over the long term. I can't prove a thing and will not present the many stories, etc. That would be a different subject.

Oh Yea, my wife passed a few years ago of Cancer. Stastics are still growing, but they do nothing.

102 posted on 04/08/2008 6:27:49 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: Petronski; All; devolve; PhilDragoo
Lol.

Perhaps my background has caused me to be more leery of things. My Father was sent by Monsanto Chemical company to Texas City after the 1947 explosion which flattened the town and killed countless people.

He was a Chemical Engineer in charge of getting the plant back up and running.

103 posted on 04/08/2008 6:29:07 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Sub-Driver

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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To: Petronski; Who is John Galt?

I don’t blame you for being angry still.

Think of the stakes in the 1980s. Their betrayal, and the betrayal of the Dems of that era, almost damned hundreds of millions to stay shackled to the Communist yoke for generations to come.

Thanks to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul, the Evil Empire was faced down and ruined economically. Thanks to Almighty God who made it possible.

I remember when it wasn’t a foregone conclusion who win win the epic battle without tens of millions of nuke war casualties occurring.

Add to this, the betrayal by the Clintons of our MIRV technology in the 1990s to the Chicoms, and you see that we survive betrayals both within(i.e. Dems) and without (Toshiba, Food for Oil, etc) due to Divine Providence.


105 posted on 04/08/2008 6:31:13 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: Who is John Galt?

I have no knowledge of the Toshiba affair , made no comment about it and do not support them. That’s why I repeat, your comments to me make no sense.


106 posted on 04/08/2008 6:31:31 PM PDT by blueheron2 (Half a loaf is better than none.)
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To: blueheron2

Thank you for the information. Believe me my newspaper has had all of this over and over.

And for every PRO article there is an equal CON study with tons of information in it too.


107 posted on 04/08/2008 6:31:36 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: All
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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To: blueheron2
I have no knowledge of the Toshiba affair ...

OK.

109 posted on 04/08/2008 6:35:05 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: potlatch
and the ranchers, etc, are fighting i

The "etc", of course, are the usual suspects: malodorous hippies, al Qaeda trial lawyers, Sixties folksingers, and the usual gaggle of college-town lezzies. I question whether any actual ranchers are part of this movement.

110 posted on 04/08/2008 6:36:21 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: Wonder Warthog

[The correct statement is that nobody has been killed in the USA by a COMMERCIAL nuclear reactor.]

So if it’s not a commercial nuke reactor it doesn’t count, huh?

Easy to say irrelevant when it suits your needs.

Lol, I must be the only woman on this thread.


111 posted on 04/08/2008 6:37:07 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: exit82
I don’t blame you for being angry still.

Actually, it's a matter of principle, rather than anger, with me. The Japanese company in question made its choice (hope they enjoyed the dollars), and I can always make mine, so long as I am above the ground...

112 posted on 04/08/2008 6:40:03 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: Phantom Lord
Even worse, a French company possibly!

For the last twenty years, the French have been buying up American uranium and shipping it out of the country. Having a company like Areva build a few hundred reactors in the US would actually be a big improvement. Imagine how much less energy we would have to import.

113 posted on 04/08/2008 6:41:36 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: AGreatPer; All
AGreatPer, I am truely sorry to hear about your wife's death.

Someone just wrote IRREVELANT to my comments about much of this. I hope they read your post.

Post#102
IMHO, this has been one of the biggest cover ups in US history. I know, I live here and have seen it over the long term. I can't prove a thing and will not present the many stories, etc. That would be a different subject.

114 posted on 04/08/2008 6:42:34 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Question_Assumptions
Frankly, these days I'm less worried about the Soviets of 20 years ago than this.

EXCELLENT POINT (but I still won't ever buy anything labeled 'Toshiba' ;>)!

115 posted on 04/08/2008 6:42:40 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: Sub-Driver
So other countries can build Nuke plants in America, but Americans cannot?
How in the hell did we ever get into this mess. We need new leadership.
116 posted on 04/08/2008 6:44:42 PM PDT by MaxMax (It's not the politics I despise, It's the politicians for being so stupid..)
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To: BlazingArizona
The "etc", of course, are the usual suspects: malodorous hippies, al Qaeda trial lawyers, Sixties folksingers, and the usual gaggle of college-town lezzies. I question whether any actual ranchers are part of this movement.

How about adjacent LANDOWNERS since our nice town of 70thousand is conservative and people of the nature you mention are few and far between.

Come on down and question the ranchers. Ask them if they are worried about their water wells and ponds. Rightly or wrongly they are worried about contamination.

117 posted on 04/08/2008 6:50:49 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Freedom4US
always figured that every home by the late 50s should have had one - made by Heathkit, that would provide a welcome heat source for steam boiler and electricity generation.

I was holding out for the 1975 basement mass-energy converter unit.

Dump the trash can into the hopper on trash day, and have power the rest of the week.

118 posted on 04/08/2008 6:54:15 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: Boblo; All

But we won the war... Japan is our allies now.. We used be enemies with Britain..


119 posted on 04/08/2008 7:00:55 PM PDT by KevinDavis (John McCain "08")
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To: potlatch
I’m glad. The problem is - there never is a worry until something happens. I grew up in Texas City, Texas, surrounded by chemical plants.

I'm 10 air miles from Oak Ridge, Tennessee and downwind from most all TVA reactors. Nothing has happened which has endangered the general population. But many a good man in this area has died digging for King Coal in our area mountains though.

120 posted on 04/08/2008 7:02:42 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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