Ontario's power glut means possible nuclear plant shutdowns

[PamW]

19. GLADLY!!!

Then perhaps you could share information on the privately funded civilian R&D program that was working parallel to the military program.
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Where do you think the very first Boiling Water Reactor was developed. Do you think it was in a military lab?

NOPE - the first Boiling Water Reactor was developed at General Electric's Vallecitos facility near Sunol, south of Pleasanton, CA.

This is were the Boiling Water Reactor that is the basis of those in BWR power plants was developed. It was not developed in a military lab. It was developed privately by General Electric with their own funds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallecitos_Nuclear_Center

The ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers named the Vallecitos Reactor an engineering landmark:

http://files.asme.org/ASMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/5654.pdf\

Quoting from the above:

The Vallecitos Boiliing Water Reactor (VBWR), located near Pleasanton, California was the first privately funded and constructed nuclear power plant to supply power in megawatt amounts to an electric utility grid. The reactor was issued Power Reactor License No. 1 by the US Atomic Energy Commission....


BTW, the production reactors at Hanford and Savannah River were built / operated by DuPont; not GE, Westinghouse, B&W, and Combustion Engineering which are the vendors that make nuclear power plant reactors.

Once again Kris demonstrates that he doesn't know "beans" about the real history of nuclear power. He's only read the biased crap from anti-nuclear organizations. That's why he gets so many facts wrong about nuclear power.

PamW