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

Brietbart ^

[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.

[homeguard]

Good point!

[sam_paine]

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.

[Nuc1]

I respectfully disagree. The ABWR is the safest design currently available on the plant. But the PWR guys are not “that far” behind. :D)

[Boblo]

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

[AGreatPer]

"Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp"

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

[Nuc1]

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

[eyedigress]

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

[Boblo]

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

[Former MSM Viewer]

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

[Boblo]

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

[gitmo]

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.

[Phantom Lord]

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

[sam_paine]

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.

[Nuc1]

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.

[truthguy]

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!

[PhilDragoo]

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.

[Neidermeyer]

“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

[Who is John Galt?]

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...

[sam_paine]

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.

[Phantom Lord]

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.