GE, Westinghouse Reactors Get NRC Review Priority

[FBaggins]

General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Co.’s reactors will get priority in a review of power- plant licenses, and projects may be approved this year, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said.

GE’s Advanced Boiling Water Reactor and Westinghouse’s AP 1000 designs are the agency’s “primary focus” because the power companies that plan to use the units are being considered for Energy Department loan guarantees, Jaczko said today at a news conference in Washington.

The U.S., which hasn’t approved a new construction license for a nuclear plant in more than 30 years, has received applications for more than 20 reactors, Jaczko said. Of those, Southern Co. has won aid from the Energy Department’s $18.5 billion loan guarantee program for a reactor in Georgia. NRG Energy Inc. and Scana Corp. made the department’s short list for projects in Texas and South Carolina.

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Obama also wants Congress to approve $38.9 million to develop one or two designs for small reactors that may be used by U.S. power companies. They would be about a third the size of the reactors now in use and might be assembled at a factory and shipped by train or truck to a power plant, according to the Energy Department. The NRC expects the first small-reactor designs to be submitted for review in 2012, Jaczko said.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-02/ge-westinghouse-reactors-get-review-priority-nrc-chief-says.html


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More fizzling

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[bananas]

1. But - but - the AP-600 - and the PBMR - these were "small nuclear reactors" - and they're toast...

true believers will never give up.
You just can't argue with religious fanatics - especially the ones who believe in an ancient Nordic god named 'Thor' ...

[FBaggins]

2. So are you saying that if one design fails to make it to market... the entire segment is dead?

I guess that means that offshore hydro (my favorite new green option) is dead too?

[bananas]

5. LOL - I mention two designs - you pretend I said "one design"

and you wonder why I laugh at you guys...get real...
:rofl:

[FBaggins]

6. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

Funny, that you would refer to the AP 600 as a "small nuclear reactor", but I gave you a pass.

The number of offshore hydro plans that haven't gone anywhere is in the dozens. Does that mean that offshore hydro is a failed technology?

So once again... with hundreds of small reactors already constructed, are you really trying pretend that SMRs have no future because a particular design (or TEN) isn't going anywhere?

Really?

[Kolesar]

3. Wow, they have *applications*!

How many BTUs in an "application"?

[FBaggins]

4. You should get at least a couple more years of use out of that spin.

So make sure you keep it handy.

[NNadir]

7. As 62 nuclear reactors are now under construction around the world, and as for 30 years

...nuclear energy has continued - in spite of much carping from people who hate the science they know nothing about, nuclear science - remained the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free primary energy - I think we can make a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very case that discussing any scientific unit that involves numbers is a total waste of time.

There is NOT ONE anti-nuke who can understand any scientific unit of energy, or for that matter, any English unit.

If you look, you will see these assholes continuously talking in terms of PEAK power.

I will shortly write a post here showing the real time energy output of the largest solar PV system in Massachusetts.

This will be fun, although it will produce lots and lots and lots and lots of stupid comments from people who irrationally hate the science of Seaborg, Wigner, Fermi et al.

Have a nice evening.

[Kolesar]

8. If you look, you will see these assholes

these assholes continuously talking

I will shortly write a post

This will be fun, stupid comments, hate the science

[NNadir]

9. Yes, I know. Just as a broken clock is right twice a day...

you are mutter in writing, "hate the science." That is precisely what anti-nukes do.

The number of anti-nukes who could pass a junior high school thermodynamics quiz, is um, zero.

I have yet to meet EVEN ONE anti-nuke on this website who does <em>not</em> hate science.

The man responsible for the construction of more than 70 nuclear reactors in the United States:



http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calhistory/chancellor.seaborg.html

Anti-nuke from the anti-intellectual clown squad at Greenpeace:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlxixxtGep_GaPI_vn7Y5s-9FIzD1NMvWZcPZMZ2uDMiEkijNRCw

http://www.2space.net/news/article/284859-1276525829/

If anyone doubts for a New York second that anti-nukes are anti-intellectual, anti-science clowns, well, they must be dumb as, um, anti-nukes.

Have a swell evening.