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Article #3741Re: Tell Me About GE (General Electric)
From: John McCarthy
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 18:51
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 18:51
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Alan Guthrie posts: On July 13, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave Final Design Approval to GE's Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR). The Final Design Approval concludes the NRC's review of all design and safety issues pertaining to the ABWR. Presently, Tokyo Electric Power Company is building two ABWRs at its Kashiwazaki site. The units are rated at 1315 MWe each and are 66% and 43% completed. Two comments: 1. Good for NRC. When NRC was formed, it was separated from the AEC, later DOE, so it would be independent and not so pro-nuclear. Now it is not so anti-nuclear as the fashionable Hazel O'Leary. 2. Good for Tokyo Electric, the world's largest utility according to their publicity. Although they are putting in American reactors, somehow I conjecture that this may eventually lead to America buying reactors from Japan. 3. I notice that 1315MWe is larger than almost all previous reactors. I had read that the fashion was to build smaller reactors. -- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305 * He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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