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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.
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"Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China"
Oh no, that is very unfortunate, I'm sad to hear about the breakage.
Do they yet know how much ground has been broken? Is it severely broken?
I suspect that this has been caused by the atomic radiation from the power plant.
Let's hope that the Chinese can get that ground fixed, they need all the space they need as there are so many of them.