Title: US bureaucracy at work
ManBearPig - October 21, 2009 02:23 AM (GMT)
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| The US has agreed to transfer AP1000 nuclear reactor technology to China to enable it to purchase four state-of-the-art nuclear reactors from the Westinghouse Electric Company for an estimated $8 billion. |
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| The federal utility says in its latest filing to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that industry estimates for the two Westinghouse AP-1000 pressurized water reactors planned for the site near Scottsboro, Ala., range from $9.8 billion to $17.5 billion. That's compared to estimates of $6.4 billion to $7.1 billion a year ago. |