Westinghouse in talks on 4 nuclear reactors (here we go again)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1208&u_sid=10302729

Published Sunday | April 6, 2008
Westinghouse in talks on 4 nuclear reactors

TOKYO (AP) — Westinghouse Electric Co., a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp., is in final talks with two power companies about building up to four next-generation nuclear reactors in the United States.

The United States has built no new nuclear power plants since 1979's Three Mile Island accident. It is now taking a fresh look at nuclear power amid concerns over energy security. A new energy policy promotes the power, and some 30 reactors are planned over the next 20 years.

Toshiba and Westinghouse are in a fierce battle with the alliance of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and French firm Areva, and the team of General Electric Co. of the U.S. and Hitachi Ltd. to win orders for the proposed plants.

If Westinghouse gets the orders, they would be the first AP1000 models to be built in the United States, said Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Oomori.

Toshiba has been in talks with Scana Corp. and Southern Co. to build up to two plants in South Carolina and two in Georgia.

Winning the orders would boost sentiment for the company and may create a view that the AP1000s will become a popular reactor in the nuclear power plant market, analysts said.

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1. Westinghouse a mirror of America

There was a time when Westinghouse was a proud American company with pride in their products. Do you remember the slogan "You can be sure if it's Westinghouse"?

Over the last 20 years, they have been savaged by technically illiterate accountants in the executive offices, reorganized by PepsiCola businessmen, bought out by CBS (in an upside down deal), had their profitable units sold while unprofitable ones were kept, sold again to a thief who used the bankruptcy courts to swindle stockholders, and had their name licensed out like Flintstones vitamins. The only thing worse that could have happened to them is to have one or more Bushes on the Board of Directors.

Having worked for the company, and thinking that my pension with them is sound as the dollar, I can only wish that George Westinghouse could come back from the grave to haunt all of those who destroyed the company. But it would be too much of a task for just one ghost. He would need an army to choke the shit out of all the assholes who fucked up again and again and again. Those are the people that should be sent to the concentration camps that Kellogg, Brown and Root are building.