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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: Who is John Galt?

Oh, you mean like the super secret props that our own Navy let Google take pix of?


41 posted on 04/08/2008 5:36:24 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Boblo; devolve

[HL&P South Texas Project]

No, it’s not Houston Lighting and Power if that is what you are referring to. This will be in the Refugio, Texas area.


42 posted on 04/08/2008 5:36:25 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: sam_paine

No, REALLY it is about sharing technology with our enemies. Giving our enemies advantages that we alone once possessed.


43 posted on 04/08/2008 5:36:40 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: sam_paine

The average American didnt decide anything sport. The corrupt politicians caved to the radical 60s nutjobs regarding nuke fuels. Kinda the squeaky wheel rule. The average American didnt have a say. We havent in awhile. Wake up!


44 posted on 04/08/2008 5:37:25 PM PDT by homeguard ((Charlie Don't Surf!))
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To: Boblo

Well yeah.


45 posted on 04/08/2008 5:37:52 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: sam_paine
and now we could be looking at some European company building nukes in the US.

Even worse, a French company possibly!

46 posted on 04/08/2008 5:38:07 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: sam_paine; devolve
I haven't boycotted anything Sam. I said the ranchers in surrounding land don't want it.

Our water from the river is already being taken over by San Antonio north of us and nuke plants use HUGE amounts of water.

Do you want one in your backyard? I did a Google a few months ago and there are many more accidents at these plants than most people are aware of!

47 posted on 04/08/2008 5:41:19 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Who is John Galt?

To be more accurate it was Koenigsberg a Norwegian subsidiary of Toshiba that sold sub propeller milling machinery to the Soviets.


48 posted on 04/08/2008 5:42:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: All

See article at Imprimus; most info concerning nuclear power, even nuclear waste disposal, has been misreported.

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=02


49 posted on 04/08/2008 5:42:17 PM PDT by blueheron2 (Half a loaf is better than none.)
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To: Phantom Lord
And Mitsubishi built some of the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor. You boycotting them too?

Sorry, d!psh!t, but Japan was not supposedly our "ally" on 12/07/41. For whatever it's worth, my wife & I have owned Mitsubishi automobiles (note the plural - & they didn't last as long as our American vehicles, even with extra maintenance/replacement parts, some of which was paid for by the Mitsubishi 'factory')...

50 posted on 04/08/2008 5:42:38 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: Nuc1

Sharing technology?

If a private company develops technology which is necessary for the National Security, then the Federal Government has a responsibility to secure that technology.

Instead of protecting this industry, Americans did their damned best to kill it. The Japanese, our only real ally in Asia, preserved it.


51 posted on 04/08/2008 5:42:39 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: PhilDragoo; devolve

I realize they are needed but as I just wrote to another, there are many accidents and leaks that happen.

They need to be situated far away from population and in Texas that is possible. I just don’t want to live near one and just discovered it will be much closer that what I wrote earlier.


52 posted on 04/08/2008 5:44:57 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: eyedigress

Westinghouse sold its defense electronics unit to Northrop Grumman in 1996.


53 posted on 04/08/2008 5:45:07 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Phantom Lord; devolve; PhilDragoo

[ I have no worries.]]

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.


54 posted on 04/08/2008 5:47:22 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: sam_paine
Oh, you mean like the super secret props that our own Navy let Google take pix of?

Assuming you're right (which might be a real stretch ;>), by all means feel free to duplicate "super secret props" from Google news photos...

55 posted on 04/08/2008 5:48:37 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: homeguard
The corrupt politicians caved to the radical 60s nutjobs regarding nuke fuels. Kinda the squeaky wheel rule. The average American didnt have a say.

BS. The American People paid for the "China Syndrome" ticket stubs that killed the political will to keep the domestic nuclear industry alive.

Spin the responsibility however you want, but the French didn't surrender after TMI.

56 posted on 04/08/2008 5:49:00 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Red Steel

Thanks for the correction (again, I assume you’re correct) - even though it makes no real difference to me. A subsidiary is a subsidiary is a subsidiary...


57 posted on 04/08/2008 5:50:54 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: Who is John Galt?

What Toshiba sold the Soviet Union was the multi-dimensional industrial lathes that were necessary for machining the quiet propellers. They weren’t selling them the propellers. Admittedly that was bad, but they were punished for it.


58 posted on 04/08/2008 5:51:01 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Nuc1
"As I recall TMI is a Babcox and Wilcox design"

Yes it is. I had breakfast many times with the engineers, etc. They would laugh at us when we talked about potential problems.

These days, including today, I go fishing next to TMI. The small mouth bass seem to love the warm waters coming from the island. (no jokes about glowing and genetically mutilated fish are necessary, we have heard them all)

59 posted on 04/08/2008 5:51:14 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: potlatch; devolve
Do you want one in your backyard?

Got one. It's called Commanche Peak. I frikkin LOVE it.

Next question?

60 posted on 04/08/2008 5:52:56 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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