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
Obama surrogates Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), and Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) discussed the RNC's "Balance" ad with reporters in a just-completed conference call. Below is a transcription of the final question asked during the Q&A.
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I hope he'll realize that the day after electrions, though.
Hope for America! :-)
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He is a great speaker, and even better at playing all sides.
OK
is that why no one anywhere in the world has ever built one of these reactors beyond small, government-funded demonstration facilities?
What are the capital costs like for IFR and molten salt, anyway? And how does the cost of treating HLW this way compare with once-through?
Combine this with issues like no drilling and more taxes during tough economic times and it looks like the Republicans will be staying in power to me.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/designs/ifr/anlw.html
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Sadly, I can't think of many reasons to vote for McCain. Nuclear energy is one of them, obviously. And there are a few others where Obama's positions are clearly against life.
I hate voting for the lesser of two evils: Obama - proletariot dictatorship or McCain - Corporate Empire. But that's what I shall do - vote against Obama.
In addition, he wants us to get more creative with the waste it produces, rather than trucking it around the country - a roulette sort of move if ever there was one.
I will vote for the guy with the open mind who also thinks these things through. Obama '08