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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"Voters were asked to pick one of three 'lines'. But by this time all three 'lines' had formulated policies calling for the eventual phase-out of nuclear
power in Sweden: Line 1 after twenty-five years with completion of stations already on
order, Line 2 ditto with utilities nationalized, and Line 3 after ten years with no further
work on incomplete stations. The vote split 39 per cent for Line 2 and 38 per cent for
Line 3."
- Line 1 was was actually a yes vote. He didn't provide a translation, but that was how he remembered his vote.