Nuclear plants planned for Gulf of Mexico

[Jack Sprat]

http://www.truth-out.org/tokyo-electric-build-us-nuclear-plants-the-no-bs-info-japans-disastrous-nuclear-operators68457

Greg Palast reports that 2 nuclear plants are planned on the gulf coast of Texas. TEPCO (Tokoyo Electric Power Co) will get the contract with 4 billion in guarantees for them and their partner. With TEPCO designing the system and the state of Texas overseeing 'The South Texas Project', Murphy's Law is back in play on the American Gulf Coast. Westinghouse-Toshiba will provide the reactor.

[ananda]

1. South Texas deal dubious.

From the Austin American-Statesman:

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/south-texas-project-deal-dubious-in-wake-of-1321414.html

"Some of the South Texas Project electricity is shipped to Austin, which is a part-owner of the two current reactors. The city is considering whether to buy more power from the two proposed reactors.

Tokyo Electric had agreed to spend $155 million to become a 10 percent owner of two proposed reactors at the South Texas Project.

That money, which included an option to spend another $125 million for another 10 percent stake, was contingent on potential federal loan guarantees. With Washington now reconsidering nuclear power, those loan guarantees have become a very open question.

Funding questions aside, environmentalists seized on the disaster in Japan to oppose the South Texas Project expansion."


I just hope to God this deal falls through. No more nukes!

[Jack Sprat]

5. Yeah, I hope so too.

Have they thought of what a high Cat 3 hurricane with a storm surge like Katrina's might do to a nuclear plant's generators and backup contingencies? Sounds real bad. Don't know how close to the coast they were thinking about. Sounds nuts.

[howaboutme]

2. Obama has had some serious bad luck with timing

If you remember just before the BP tragedy he approved and expanded more offshore drilling. So now he recently approves loan guarantees for 2 TEPCO nuke plants in Texas.

[originalpckelly]

3. They're going to call it: Operation Fuck the Gulf.

[jillan]

4. Why not? They've already destroyed the ecosystem in the Gulf already... why not just finish it off

altogether?