Below is from our rapid response team . Yesterday, regional anti-nuclear organizations asked federal nuclear energy regulators to launch an investigation into what it claims are “newly identified flaws” in Westinghouse’s advanced reactor design, the AP1000. During a teleconference releasing a report on the subject, participants urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend license reviews of proposed AP1000 reactors. In its news release, even the groups making these allegations provide conflicting information on its findings. In one instance, the groups cite “dozens of corrosion holes” at reactor vessels and in another says that eight holes have been documented. In all cases, there is another containment mechanism that would provide a barrier to radiation release. Below, we examine why these claims are unwarranted and why the AP1000 design certification process should continue as designated by the NRC. Myth: In the AP1000 reactor design, the gap between the shield bu...
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By 2017 another 8GW could be added. This is 90 billion kwh total. A 12% increase from the current 790 billion kwh.
wind in 2006 was 32 billion kwh.
the Watts Bar plant should be finished in 2014. Adding another 9 billion kwh.
Other new power uprating technology could further enhance existing nuclear capacity.
50% power uprates from donut shaped fuel and coolant additives
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007/jan/tech/kb_nuclear.html
It is not just global warming and climate change, it is 30,000/year dead in america from air pollution from coal. that is why we need wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear moving as fast as possible. Save real lives now. Plus while the coal plants are running stick better scrubbers and gas bags no them.
(are you going to post this, or only comments you agree with?)