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"no one is building new fission reactors of any sort" They are building one in Georgia http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-new-nuclear-react
by cglace 14y ago
"no one is building new fission reactors of any sort"
They are building one in Georgia http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-new-nuclear-reactor-in-us-since-1978-approved http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-new-n...
- InclinedPlane 14y agoYes, I'm aware. I made an intentional sacrifice of accuracy to benefit brevity. If you look at a graph of new fission reactors built in the west you'll notice that it flat-lines. Taking into account this new reactor, that would put the rate of new reactor construction in the US at an average of somewhere around 0.06 reactors per year. At this rate we can expect to build 5 additional reactors in the 21st century...
- uvdiv 14y ago29 under construction in China, simultaneously: http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionReactorsByCountry.aspx http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionRe... Rather an exception of course. But a big one.