Nuclear power costs too darn much. But not for long!

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"Westinghouse at core of nuclear power trend toward smaller reactors"
By Thomas Olson, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, March 14, 2010
The nuclear power industry that reawakened only a couple years ago is getting a booster shot these days from much-smaller reactors that would be far more affordable.

Once again, Westinghouse Electric Co. is at the core of the trend. It's designing a small nuclear reactor the size of a bus that can be built in a factory and shipped to a power plant. It would generate up to one-quarter the power of current nuclear reactors, but cost about one-tenth as much.

Small modular reactors, as they're called, are being designed by several companies that could be installed as early as 2018, say experts. Being modular, they could gradually replace fossil-fuel power plants whose owners must cut emissions."

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_671549.html

Mass produced in a factory. No chance for crooked and greedy construction companies to drag their feet or purposefully screw things up to stretch the construction schedule --and fatten their wallets in the process.

The only thing these companies would be allowed to do is dig a hole and put in the concrete pads and supports. Can't screw that up now, can you Nuclear Power Plant Construction Firms???

The days of thinking that one power plant is going to make you a billionaire are going to be long gone! And good riddance! Cost overruns and construction company shenanigans are one of the main reasons that the anti-nuke idiots were able to scuttle many of the plants in the 1970s and 1980s. Well, your greed just put you out of business! Good riddance to bad rubbish!!!

Mass produced modular nuclear power plants, produced in a factory under scrutiny of the QA inspectors and the NRC will bring costs down and put some of the biggest thieves out of business. Win, win.