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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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I don't buy the standard response that you don't endorse the material you link to--at best, it's a miscalculation, since a statement that there are a lot of pro-nuclear fringe right-wingers (really the only reasonable conclusion one can draw here) is not the message we need to convey nor the type of strength we should try to project. Nobody forces you to link to sites about "defending the American patriarchy" and other offensive material--if Osama bin Laden endorsed nuclear power, would you link to him?
Is that material offensive? Absolutely. Sexism is about a command economy, period. Capitalists and businesspeople everywhere need to oppose measures that rob the economy of 51% of its workforce by accident of birth--nothing could be more anti-capitalist.
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