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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: devolve; PhilDragoo; Phantom Lord; sam_paine; Boblo

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/910


61 posted on 04/08/2008 5:53:18 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Doe Eyes

I don’t know what that entails but the tech involved in RADAR would have been RF Engineering R&D. It looks like the main purchase of the company was 2006 for 5.4b, and a 77% share.


62 posted on 04/08/2008 5:54:32 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: sam_paine

Nice reply Sam.


63 posted on 04/08/2008 5:54:33 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Sub-Driver

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

How about Microsoft Visual Earth? (Found easily enough via Google, on multiple sites.)

I'm sure the Soviets knew what the propellers looked like. What they didn't know was how to machine them. That's what they needed the special lathes for.

65 posted on 04/08/2008 5:57:47 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Who is John Galt?

When was the Toshiba-Soviet thing? What year?


66 posted on 04/08/2008 5:58:00 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: sam_paine
Yeah, I blame Hanoi Jane's movie for the stagnation of new N-power plants.
67 posted on 04/08/2008 6:00:15 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; Phantom Lord; Boblo
The radioactive isotopes released directly by burning coal dwarfs anything you can worry about with non-Russian nukes.


68 posted on 04/08/2008 6:01:50 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Sub-Driver

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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To: Question_Assumptions
How about Microsoft Visual Earth?

So you're 'fine' with Toshiba's actions, because "Microsoft Visual Earth" presumably has photos of US propellers? Or not?

Either way, 'how nice'...

70 posted on 04/08/2008 6:02:26 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
Do you want one in your backyard?

The number of deaths related to nuclear plant accidents in the U.S. is exactly ZERO! A far better record than any other industry in the country.

Maybe you prefer to live in the dark?

71 posted on 04/08/2008 6:03:08 PM PDT by been_lurking
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To: Question_Assumptions
What they didn't know was how to machine them. That's what they needed the special lathes for.

I'm seeing a gap there. They didn't know HOW to machine them. Fine. Did the lathes tell them HOW to machine them? Or merely give them the tools to machine them?

I have a buddy who has a table saw and uses about 5% of its capabilities, and the machine doesn't know how to teach him the other 95%.

I'm not trying to be a wiseguy (well, not right now, anyway), I'm just trying to understand.

72 posted on 04/08/2008 6:03:17 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

Don’t know exactly, seems like early to mid 90’s. The machines were gigantic 5-axis cnc controlled milling machines though.


73 posted on 04/08/2008 6:03:26 PM PDT by rsobin
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To: Petronski
Here is a snip

"Toshiba must pay $380 mil. for stealing trade secrets ... In the mid 80s they sold submarine stealth technology to the Soviets, technology they received via ..."

I loved it. Our copier company put their (Toshiba) copier division out of business with this info. I made every salesperson carry the info around.

74 posted on 04/08/2008 6:04:03 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: Who is John Galt?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ivo.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/nuclear-prop.png&imgrefurl=http://ivo.co.za/2007/09/03/&h=250&w=317&sz=173&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=cXWU97nL_lmjEM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnuclear%2B%2Bsubmarine%2Bprops%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff


75 posted on 04/08/2008 6:05:01 PM PDT by blueheron2 (Half a loaf is better than none.)
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To: Petronski
When was the Toshiba-Soviet thing? What year?

Guess you'll have to do a search online. The way I remember it, it was when I was actually working for the US 'guvmint,' & my boss was a Toshiba electronics fan (guessing the 1980's)...

76 posted on 04/08/2008 6:05:06 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: AGreatPer

I have trouble holding Toshiba responsible for what a subsidiary did 20-25 years ago.

How far back do we go? Do we eschew products from Bayer, Mitsubishi, BASF, etc.?

How about Krups? Is my coffee grinder immoral somehow?


77 posted on 04/08/2008 6:07:09 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Who is John Galt?

The number stuck in my head is 1983, but I doubt my memory and was trying to confirm.


78 posted on 04/08/2008 6:07:55 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: potlatch
Our water from the river is already being taken over by San Antonio north of us and nuke plants use HUGE amounts of water.

Nuclear plants use a great deal of water for cooling, but they don't use it up. It's discharged back in a couple hundred feet downstream at a higher temperature.

In an ideal world I wouldn't want anything in my backyard. But when the alternative is burning a billion - literally, billion with a B - tons of coal a year and releasing tens of thousands of tons of NOx, SO2, etc. that isn't even a decision.

Every day we sit on our collective hands arguing about whether nuclear is a good enough solution is another day of using the dirtiest and most dangerous power source there is by default.

79 posted on 04/08/2008 6:09:25 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: Petronski
For those who want the full story, you can find a New York Times report about the sale here. Basically, the Soviets knew about the technology because of information that they got from John A. Walker Jr. Since the shape and surface of the blades are critical, it was the high quality of the milling machines that was key to the Soviet Union actually making the quiet propellers. The article says, "The equipment was sold by the Toshiba Machinery Company, which is 51 percent owned by the Toshiba Corporation. The other stockholders are Japanese." Please note that Kongsberg of Norway was also involved, selling the Soviets the controller for the lathes.
80 posted on 04/08/2008 6:12:44 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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