http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAVX0CTUSD.htmlCheney to Promote American-Made Nuclear Reactors to China
WASHINGTON (AP) - On a trip to China next week to talk about high-stakes issues like terrorism and North Korea, Vice President Dick Cheney will have another task - making a pitch for Westinghouse's U.S. nuclear power technology.
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Westinghouse is putting its hopes on its 1,100 megawatt AP1000 reactor, an advanced design that is still waiting approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission before it can be built in the United States. Westinghouse, owned by the British nuclear firm BNFL, is the only U.S.-based manufacturer of a pressurized water reactor, the type of design China has said it wants to pursue.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=476285&mesg_id=476285This is just more dirty business by the venal and avaricious Cheney.http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.22B.NRDC.Cheney.htm Data Shows Industry Had Extensive Access to Cheney's Energy Task Force Industry Outnumbered Non-Industry Contacts 25 to 1
Tuesday, 20 May, 2002
WASHINGTON | A close examination of more than 12,000 pages of documents provided by the Energy Department confirms that energy industry lobbyists enjoyed extraordinary access to Vice President Cheney's energy task force. NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) has finally compiled from Energy Department documents a comprehensive, quantitative analysis of outside contacts during formulation of the Bush administration's national energy plan. (See attached Excel spreadsheet.)
During the course of its operation - from January to September of 2001 - the energy task force received input from hundreds of corporations, organizations and individuals. The data, which validates NRDC's preliminary assessment that industry had the most access, shows that industry representatives had 714 direct contacts while non-industry representatives had only 29. NRDC could not definitively categorize another 105 direct contacts.
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Westinghouse had contact with the task force nine times. (Westinghouse Electric Company has contributed $65,060 to Republican candidates and the GOP from 1999 to 2002.)
AND Re: Westinghouse
(NOTE: Have used the html link to be able to snip from this article. It's actually a .pdf file that can be accessed through the link at the the top of the web page.)
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:UDdL_CLnIX8J:www.reachingcritical... <snip>
COMPANY HISTORY AND PRODUCTS
In 1971, BNFL was formed as a spin off of the British
g o v e r n m e n t ’s Atomic Energy A u t h o r i t y. But the UK
government remains a 100% shareholder of BNFL. The
company is active in every aspect of the nuclear industry,
and controls 12% of the world’s nuclear activity.
BNFL operates in 15 countries and employs more than
23,000 people. The company’s revenue totaled about $2.5
billion in 2001.
In 1998 BNFL merged with Magnox Electric
Company and in 1999 purchased the nuclear business of
Westinghouse Electric Company. Nearly 50% of the
nuclear power plants in operation worldwide and nearly
60% in the United States are based on Westinghouse
technology, owned by BNFL.THE DIRT THEY MAKE
The company:
Buys, manufactures and manages the processing of
uranium into fuel, known as Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel.
Operates the largest international transport network of
nuclear materials including MOX on ships, trains and
motorized vehicles.
Provides reprocessing of nuclear fuel and manages
spent fuel and waste.
Builds and services nuclear reactors, both pressurized
water reactors and boiling water reactors.
Decommissions nuclear power plants, approximately
50 since 1988.
BNFL BUSINESS:
Sellafield (UK): Sellafield’s chief activity is
reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for use in domestic
nuclear power plants and to overseas customers like
Japan and Germany. While the BNFL web-site boasts that
radioactive discharge from Sellafield is now less than 1%
of peak levels in the 1970s, the location is still known as
the "nuclear dustbin" of Europe.
BNFL Inc.: Established in 1990, BNFL Inc. is a full
service nuclear waste management company, decom-
missioning, engineering, and handling nuclear materials. It
handles the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford, Idaho,
Oak Ridge, Rocky Flats, and Savannah River Sites. BNFL
Inc. has its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.
Westinghouse Electric Company: In 1999 BNFL
acquired the commercial nuclear power businesses of
CBS, now known as the Westinghouse Electric Company.
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But it looks like BNFL might bounce back from hardships of
the past. The Cheney Bush energy plan puts nuclear energy
squarely in the forefront and BNFL is well positioned to take
advantage of the White House’s pro-nuclear stance. Also
playing in BNFL’s favor are its political connections. James
S c h l e s i n g e r, who was the United States’ first Energy
Secretary, director of the Central Intelligence Agency under
Nixon and Defense Secretary under President Ford, sits on
BNFL’s Board of Directors.
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