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Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Electricity, Environment, Energy, Technology, Politics
Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Electricity, Environment, Energy, Technology, Politics
You know, it’s kind of sad that no one is willing to invest in nuclear energy anymore. Wait, what? NuScale Power celebrated the news of its company-saving $30 million investment from Fluor Corp. Thursday morning with a press conference in Washington, D.C. Fluor is a design, engineering and construction company involved with some 20 plants in the 70s and 80s, but it has not held interest in a nuclear energy company until now. Fluor, which has deep roots in the nuclear industry, is betting big on small-scale nuclear energy with its NuScale investment. "It's become a serious contender in the last decade or so," John Hopkins, [Fluor’s group president in charge of new ventures], said. And that brings us to NuScale, which had run into some dark days – maybe not as dark as, say, Solyndra, but dire enough : Earlier this year, the Securities Exchange Commission filed an action against NuScale's lead investor, The Michael Kenwood Group. The firm "misap
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2006/09/05/nbeach.xml
I ran into the link over at http://www.grinzo.com/energy/blog_entry_archive/2006/09/2006x09x07_3.html
Is this the kind of future we want to leave to our grandkids?
The company was fined and are doing the best they can to clean it up. Of course this should never happen in the first place. But we are getting better and better and better at managing nuclear technology safely and effectively.
If we couldn't do it safely we wouldn't be running nuclear plants.
"I have not found any reports of anyone getting sick or dying"
"If we couldn't do it safely we wouldn't be running nuclear plants."
Phew...I was about to get worried...until you set me straight.