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WNC Observer on September 5, 2007 - 4:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Part of the problem is our absolutely mindless, knee-jerk adherence to hypercapitalist ideology. Had we settled on a national standardized set of siting, design & construction specifications, all of these facilities could have been built and put online on a reasonably fast track. That's how the French did it. But we are SO superior to those "cheese eating surrender monkeys", right? That's why they're only producing something like 70% of their power from operating nukes, while we've got all of these unbuilt and unpaid for ground disturbances as symbols of our mighty national technical prowess.

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eric blair on September 6, 2007 - 7:06am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That's how the French did it.

Yea, so much faith that plants were cited along the German border

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF8&q=french+reactors+border+germany

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AlanfromBigEasy on September 6, 2007 - 9:20am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

No anti-German siting issues that I can see. Two plants, 6 reactors, next to Germany. Germany placed two experimental reactors next to France, and one two reactor plant. The Rhine River is a good source of cooling water.

The next reactor will be built at Flamanville.

Alan

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