{"id":10940,"date":"2012-02-10T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2012-02-10T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:21:11","slug":"first-new-nuclear-reactors-since-1978-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10940","title":{"rendered":"First New Nuclear Reactors Since 1978 Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-nuclear-20120210,0,3657441.story\">This is good news<\/a>: &#8220;A consortium of utilities in the South won government approval Thursday to construct two new atomic energy reactors at an estimated cost of $14 billion, the strongest signal yet that the three-decade hiatus of nuclear plant construction is finally ending.&#8221; The new reactors are going in at reactors at  Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Or its good news except for &#8220;massive federal loan guarantee and other incentives.&#8221; The only incentive they should get is shielding from the inevitable frivolous lawsuit from those segments of the green community who oppose the only practical zero-emission power generating technology available. <\/p>\n<p>Though not in that story, the two reactors appear to be using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AP1000\">Westinghouse AP1000<\/a> duel-loop pressurized water reactors, which is a significant improvement over current working American reactors (and the Fukishama reactors). Personally I would have liked to see a move to a more inherently safe reactor technology like pebble bed (it&#8217;s too early to expect commercialization of the molten salt design),  but this is certainly a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is good news: &#8220;A consortium of utilities in the South won government approval Thursday to construct two new atomic energy reactors at an estimated cost of $14 billion, the strongest signal yet that the three-decade hiatus of nuclear plant construction is finally ending.&#8221; The new reactors are going in at reactors at Plant Vogtle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,1068],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-energy-policy","tag-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}