Posted on 02/09/2012 10:22:34 AM PST by kidd
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved licenses to build two new nuclear reactors Thursday
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
They are already pretty well along on construction. Watch the video at the link.
All site prep work completed, heavy lift cranes in place, support building and offices completed, long lead time components (i.e reactor, steam generators, coolant pumps, turbines etc.) ordered and in manufacture. Now with the NRC issuing the COL, they can start pouring concrete in earnest. Obama and the watermellons can't stop this now.
Ignorance is the greatest health hazard.
Fearmongering doesn’t mask ignorance.
For a while, Westinghouse Steam Generators and Pressurizers were built in Tampa while Pensacola made the RV Internals. When the industry slowed down all of that was moved to Pensacola.
The Coolant Pumps and Control Rod Drives were made in Cheswick, PA. That facility is still operating and now owned by Curtis Wright. I'd imagine that they will get a chunk of this work.
That’s my take, also; though I’m sure the permitting process began long before the obamessiah took power. He just didn’t stop it, this close to his re-election bid.
Betcha the licenses get pulled the day after the first Tuesday in November...
Don’t hold your breath. I’ll believe it when I see it, especially with this EPA.
They are cheeper to build, but not to operate. In operation, Nukes have the lowest costs.
What is your alternative?
The EPA has no jurisdiction over nuclear. Neither does OSHA. Nukes are all under the NRC.
An ultra-lib Democrat governor named Cumo.
I don't think GA is going to have that problem.
“What is your alternative?”
Thorium reactors
http://www.thorium.tv/en/thorium_reactor/thorium_reactor_1.php
Not when loan payments, loan guarantees, liability caps, and special insurance laws are factored in. And they do have to be factored in.
That hasn’t stopped this administration yet.
Who controls the NRC?
And Fukushima Daiichi's mid-1960s tech survived the earthquake and would have probably survived the tsuanmi as well but for human error.
Another Carter Era folly redux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Nuclear_Power_Plant
“The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was a completed General Electric nuclear boiling water reactor located adjacent to the Long Island Sound in East Shoreham, New York. The plant was built between 1973 and 1984 by the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), but never operated.”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1005.frank.html
I’ll take that bet!
Most other things.
For example, I’d rather deal with spilled oil than spilled nuclear waste.
Wouldn’t you?
Electricity, like ignorance, is a health hazard. Lucky for you no one is out to ban either.
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