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Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-cut-it dept.

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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  1. Nuke China, Do It NOW !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Nuke China, Do It NOW !! Bomb those mofos back to the stoner stone age !!

  2. Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goatse in your face! Goatse up your ass!

    You nerds love it.

    And hey, stop changing the Subject: back to Re:foo !