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Re: Walmart prices for Nuclear reactor modules

nkn — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:16:01 -0000

or you could shoot the over-environmentalists and other obstructionists here and still build them almost as cheap. The costs are in the over regulation. Not the labor costs.

Re: Walmart prices for Nuclear reactor modules

pgf — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:39:58 -0000

So basically you're figuring out a way to make money off of the fact that the Chinese are allowed a regulatory environment where they can build cheap nuclear reactors but Americans aren't.

I don't think this will work; you're basically counting on still having money to import power with when foreigners are allowed to be productive but american workers and industries are basically nickel-and-dimed to death.

It's not a solution, it's basically a recapitulation of the basic problem.

Re: Walmart prices for Nuclear reactor modules

YordanGeorgiev — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:37:21 -0000

** but we will get plenty of windmills to feel good about

and pay a lot for

Re: Walmart prices for Nuclear reactor modules

paddy123 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:12:48 -0000

we only have ourselves in the US to blame for voting in gov. officials hostile to Nuclear energy. It is ridiculous that we are talking about having china and russia build high tech infrastructure, which we once led in, and import it across the borders only because our government is hostile to the industry. Way to go and give up on another manufacturing base.

but we will get plenty of windmills to feel good about.

Re: Walmart prices for Nuclear reactor modules

nextbigfuture — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:55:29 -0000

At one third the price the US could afford to have thorough automated quality control and super inspections and still be at half the price. Fuel manufacturing (in particular for the TRISO pebbles) could be set up in the US or Canada or Australia. The US could also revamp the idiotic reactor licensing and design certification processes and re-enable affordable design and construction in the US.

Re: Walmart prices for Nuclear reactor modules

Brett_Bellmore — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:44:21 -0000

I for one would be scared spitless to have numerous reactors manufactured by a geo-political rival with vanishingly low regard for human life, and a history of technological sabotage, running in our country. And I'm pretty blase about radiation hazards. That's not a radiation hazard, it's a "Giving a military foe the chance to do long term sabotage to our critical infrastructure" hazard.