Last year the congress passed a bill authorizing funding of 2 new nuclear reactors with loans available for 3 more.
On the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is WNP-1, a leftover from WPPSS, that is 95% complete and they just traded some desert land for the right to NOT tear it down. Maybe now they can finish it.
We lost our newest test reactor (FFTF) to government stupidity (Move this to political if you want but Al Gore wanted a new one build in Oak Ridge. There was no question of whether or not this country has a need for this reactor. My last question at a meeting on the destruction of this reactor was "Who has the political clout to build replacement reactor for 1 billion dollars?") They drilled holes in the core a year ago.
FFTF named national historic landmark
This story was published Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
By the Herald staff
The American Nuclear Society has named Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility a National Nuclear Historic Landmark.
The 400-megawatt reactor will be commemorated at 3:30 p.m. Monday during a program at the Battelle Auditorium, off Battelle Boulevard in Richland.
The reactor was conceived in the late 1960s by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory nuclear engineers and physicists as a research facility for irradiation testing of reactor fuels and materials. It operated for about a decade, starting in the early 1980s.
Changes in national policy, driven in part by the Three Mile Island accident and nuclear nonproliferation concerns, limited its use. But throughout its life it won several significant awards and greatly contributed to knowledge of nuclear materials science and technology, according to the American Nuclear Society.
Energy: Coal is estimated to last the longest for energy sources, about 300 years. Nuclear energy is estimated to last for thousands of years. We can get uranium from seawater. :ek:
France is the worlds builder of nuclear reactors at this time.
Remember: I'm naturally radioactive and so are you.
Joy