NRC Approves New Nuclear Reactor Design

Enginerd · Post by **Enginerd** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:06 am

The U.S. NRC commission has made an exception to its long standing policy of charging a great deal of money while doing nothing whatsoever...
with the approval today of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor for use in the USA....

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:18 pm

Seems to be behind a pay wall...
Let me guess, it is a new PWR, or LWR design?
Anything else would be a first since its existance.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:47 pm

Try this

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_We ... 12111.html

and this
http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:12 pm

is ready with the *AP1000® pressurized water reactor (PWR).

I called it!
NRC == no reactor certified (other than PWRs).

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:27 pm

Ohhh, but it is an ADVANCED pressurized water reactor. At least a plus up and the current GEN III designs!!!

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:43 pm

Ohhh, but it is an ADVANCED pressurized water reactor. At least a plus up and the current GEN III designs!!!

Yay...

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:44 pm

Yahoo!

palladin9479 · Post by **palladin9479** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 3:14 am

Haha,

Hey at least it's a start. Maybe in ten or twenty years, when the current bureaucrats who run it are dead or retired, we might get another new design certified.

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:49 am

Maybe in ten or twenty years, when the current bureaucrats who run it are dead or retired, we might get another new design certified.

I have my doubts about that, sorry to say so.

palladin9479 · Post by **palladin9479** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:41 am

Skipjack wrote:
Maybe in ten or twenty years, when the current bureaucrats who run it are dead or retired, we might get another new design certified.
I have my doubts about that, sorry to say so.

Hmm, possibility to organize an underground movement with the purpose of assassinating the current bureaucracy and replacing them with sympathetic members to the cause?

Or am I over thinking things again.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:48 am

Not funny. Please delete.

Betruger · Post by **Betruger** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:01 am

First they came for crappy internet jesters...

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:10 pm

I think I'd prefer that we regulate our own board than have the jack-booted thugs do it!