Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival

NobleSavage sends a story from Bloomberg about Japan Steel Works Ltd., a company that still makes Samurai swords, and how it may control the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. "There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak. Utilities that won't need the equipment for years are making $100 million down payments now on components Japan Steel makes from 600-ton ingots. Each year the Tokyo-based company can turn out just four of the steel forgings that contain the radioactivity in a nuclear reactor. Even after it doubles capacity in the next two years, there won't be enough production to meet building plans."

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For the execs of the ordering countries

[crovira]

to use in committing "sepuku" maybe?

Re:sounds like a way to re-start

[iknownuttin]

FTFA: The mixture is poured into a blackened casing to form ingots 4.2 meters wide in the rough shape of a cylinder.

Those Cajun chefs could do that in a heartbeat, along with the blackened catfish, etc... OooooooEeeeeeee!