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Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China
An anonymous reader writes "The construction of first next-generation Westinghouse nuclear power reactor breaks ground in Sanmen, China. The reactor, expected to generate 12.7 Megawatts by 2013, costs 40 billion Yuan (~US$6 billion; that's a lot of iPods.) According to Westinghouse, 'The AP1000 is the safest and most economical nuclear power plant available in the worldwide commercial marketplace, and is the only Generation III+ reactor to receive Design Certification from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.' However, Chinese netizens suspect China is being used as a white rat to test unproven nuclear technologies (comments in Chinese)." Update: 04/20 07:28 GMT by T : As several readers have pointed out, this plant will generate much more than 12.7 Megawatts -- more like 1100 MWe.
In all seriousness, 12.7 MW seems rather small for a $6 billion price tag.
12.7 MW sounds a bit low. Even a DeLorean could generate 1.21 GW.
But seriously, my home entertainment center uses more than that. Well, OK, not so seriously. But still, I'm just sayin.
Fool, they're not running Vista on the control system. They're running a pirated copy of the Windows 7 beta. Get it straight.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
12 MW, 1200 MW, big deal.
Since when did iPods become a unit of measurement?
"That kid was hit by a 2-ton truck. That's a lot of iPods!"
1.21 Jigawatts is equal to approximately 47,000 mega ExplodingIpodBatteries, which is about 7.8 Burning Libraries Of Congress. These units of energy are of course in the US standard micro-10-fully-loaded-18-wheelers^2*milli-footballfield^2*deci-time-it-takes-you-to-fix-a-cup-of-coffee^-2.
Nah, the typo is later. The full title should be "Nexr-Gen Nucrear Power Prant".
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
Yeah. At the end of the day, they're both guitar amps that'll blow you across the workshop.
It's a quote from Lethal Weapon 4, spoken by a Chinese no less. Damn mod needs a frontal labotomy ... or perhaps he's already had one !