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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:41 PM
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MITSUBISHI, AREVA TO BID FOR US NUCLEAR PROJECT (Outsourcing new nuke plants)
MITSUBISHI, AREVA TO BID FOR US NUCLEAR PROJECT
Received Friday, 22 June 2007 08:01:00 GMT
TOKYO, June 22, 2007 (AFP) - Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Friday it and France's Areva have jointly bid for a multi-million-dollar research and development project on a US nuclear fuel cycle program.
The United States is set to resume building nuclear power plants after a gap of more than two decades amid growing concern about high oil prices and greenhouse gas emissions.
Under the plan, Japan's top heavy machinery maker will mainly work on fast breeder reactors -- which are in part driven by plutonium fuel -- while Areva will design facilities to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, said Mitsubishi spokesman Hideo Ikuno.
"MHI regards fast breeder reactor technology as one of our major energy projects and we want to expand the business overseas," he said.


http://www.adetocqueville.com/200706220801.l5m81aj18598.htm
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:49 PM
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1. Oh, the irony...
Japanese companies bidding to build nuclear power plants in the US.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:51 PM
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3. Sounds like a movie plot. Godzilla decides to help. nt
Edited on Fri Jun-22-07 02:09 PM by Ilsa
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:53 PM
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4. I have every confidence in Mitsubishi
They did a fine design job on this:

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datadiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 02:16 PM
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7. They do a better job chopping down trees to make chopsticks
They are one of the largest tree destroyers in the world.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:50 PM
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2. Does the project get awarded to the lowest bidder?
Edited on Fri Jun-22-07 01:52 PM by Ilsa
Oh, that's great: give Japan a chance to even for Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

I wish that anyone overseeing the building of a nuclear facility would have to live close to the reactor for at least five years after its completion.Another option: provide year to year bonuses if the plant operates without incident. Gives the builder a long term vested interest in the project operating without a hitch.
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 02:03 PM
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5. Where is the outrage?
Remember how the RW flipped out over the Dubai ports deal? Remember how they said that their main concern was that we were going to let foreign companies control security at our nation's ports? So why haven't we heard anything from the RW hate-radio bunch?

Is it only when it involves brown-skinned, Islamic types that they get upset?
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 02:08 PM
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6. I don't think the RW read the Tocqueville Connection.
We need to email this to Faux Noise Network to get some action.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 02:44 PM
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8. there`s no one left in the usa
that can make nuclear power plant related machinery. they are all gone..there were at least three or four major companies in this area that built sub assemblies for the nuclear industry and they are gone, along with the workers, and the machines.

we have to buy them overseas now because american companies won`t build anything in the usa because american workers cost to much to feed...
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