Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Starts Generating Power (world-nuclear-news.org)

Longtime Slashdot reader TopSpin writes: The Sanmen 1 nuclear reactor in Zhejiang, China, has been synchronized to the power grid and is generating power. The reactor has been under construction for nine years and became the first AP1000 in the world to achieve criticality on June 21, 2018. The AP1000 design received final design certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2005 and has a net output of 1.117 GWe. Three other AP1000 reactors are under construction in China at the Sanmen and Haiyang sites and two reactors are under construction in the U.S. at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia. On June 29, the Taishan 1 reactor became the first Areva Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) design to generate power. Four EPR reactors are under construction in Finland, France, and China.

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Re:NO NUKES

[Chewbacon]

Can we have a mod choice of "fucking idiot"?

Re: Not Enough!

[rally2xs]

With the other things that are thrown into the atmosphere with coal power, such as radioactive elements that cause cancer, mercury that poison the fish that in turn poison us if we eat them too much, and of course the sulfur dioxide that is just plain poison, subsidies that allow power generation without the need to clean up all those other nasty things that come from burning coal would seem like a fairly good deal. Pay more to the gov't to pay the subsidies (are they subsidies, or tax "breaks?" NOT stealing a company's money by declaring a tax break is NOT my idea of a subsidy (and there should be NO such taxes on income period - not personal, corporate, payroll, self-employment, capital gains, gift, etc. - it is all stealing by the gov't, and is just as wrong if we steal from each other. Stealing is stealing. There are other things to tax - we don't need to be stealing from citizens at all, check out the FairTax.))