We are building them: Shaw, Westinghouse get full OK for nuclear EPC
9 April 2009 â" The Shaw Group's nuclear unit and Westinghouse Electric Co. received full notice to proceed from Southern Nuclear, a unit of Southern Co., on its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for two Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units and related facilities.
The contract was announced in April 2008. On March 17, 2009, Georgia regulators certified Southern Co. unit Georgia Power Co. to build Units 3 and 4 at the existing Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. Oglethorpe Power, Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities also own the plant. The notice to proceed authorizes Shaw to begin EPC services for the plant.
At least 14 new AP1000 units â" including the units at Vogtle â" are planned by U.S. electric utilities, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Westinghouse/Shaw Consortium have six of those contracts.
What's a "decent" living? Having a family of four and an Escalade while working at McDonalds? Who determines that? Oh that's right, instead of determining that yourself, giving your power to a union or government to do the thinking for you is the solution. Since you don't mind giving that decision away anyway, you might as well let your employer determine that for you.
In the '60s and '70s, an uneducated man could work a skilled job (McDonald's equivalent) 40 hours a week and provide for his family of four, including having an average home and an average vehicle. Replace "Escalade" with "Camry" and you're looking at what our country has lost.
Since you can't tell sarcasm from a hole in the wall, I have to inform you that Mr. Scrooge in that text you put is clearly bitter about having to pay for all of the "safety nets", far from "all for them".
And as a democrat who is all for government programs providing a safety net out of taxes and doesn't see much value in charity besides the tax benefit (like most people), I'd say that Scrooge is far more typical of upper-middle-class Republicans that I work with every day.
The purpose of the government is whatever the people say its purpose is. If the people decide that they want to take from the top 5% richest people who own 20% of the wealth in the country, and give it to themselves, then that's what will happen.
Look at the economic prosperity between 1940 and 1970. Then look a the federal income tax and estate tax rates in that time period. You shall see that the taxes were high, and the middle class was created. Starting in 1980, the middle class started to disappear, and it continues to this day. Only high taxes on the rich can recreate the middle class.
I graduated with a Mechanical degree 2 years ago and took a 50k+ job right out of school, and I just moved in to my new 350k+ house. I'm also working as a software engineer now and taking graduate classes online.
Technically, only the stack and heap are modified. The code section is unmodified (except in self-modifying code which is rare). Blizzard owns the copy of the code segments which do not change.
Since so many people enabled BT encryption, this whole idea of theirs has really backfired. Now, even if they were to shape some traffic to try to keep BT traffic in the network, so many people will now keep this encryption on that it won't work as well as it would have if they would have, in the first place, worked with the technology instead of against.
The industry required to build plants (iron workers, welders, shipping, raw materials, etc.) precludes getting a fleet of 30 new plants up and running in anything less than 20 years. He's just being realistic.
Chernobyl is nothing like any plants in the US. There are only a few plants like 3-Mile island, and the issue was fixed. Including in other plant designs, where they added a detector on pipe by the block valve out of the pressurizer, to verify that the valve is shut. Further, there has been huge amounts of advances in emergency procedure and trainings since then.
Also, all of the new designs that are just now being completed (and built in China) fail safe as well, even though they too are light water reactors.
In the '90s, Clinton deregulated several industries. Among them: commercial power, media, and investment banking.
Current situation in commercial power: deregulated markets are seeing huge increases in rates; there is little-to-no new-plant build, the infrastructure is crumbling, and brown-outs all over the country are likely to be necessary within a decade unless something changes.
Current situation in media: there are 3 media companies, owned by even larger companies, that provide something like 85% of all media in the United States. They focus on profit and entertainment over truth and Real News. They peddle non-issues like Wright and Fake News like WomanWithHalfGallonSilliconBoob stories. Faux News is awful, but CNN and MSNBC aren't much better. ABC is owned by Disney. NBC is owned by GE. CBS is owned by Viacom. About 40% of Americans still think that Saddam Hussein had something to do with Al Quaeda. And some ridiculously high number believe God created the planet and the universe and everything on it 6000 years ago.
Current situation in investment banking: investment bankers invested in sub-prime high-risk mortgages. They used their investments as a way to boost their image to stockholders. The sudden drop in housing values had one firm almost going under, saved by the Fed, and others talking about the apocalypse coming. CEOs of these companies are walking away with millions while thousands of Americans that were sold a dream of low mortgage payments (they're to blame too, but they're the ignorant ones) are losing their homes, and it's dragging down the whole economy.
I don't think that's a valid comparison. In your example, there is one PHB. In the net neutrality example, there are many people.
I can draw an analogy to pharmacies. Currently, there are fundamentalist Christians who won't fill prescriptions for contraception. This should be illegal. A pharmacy should be drug-neutral. I think the same thing applies to ISPs. If fundamentalist Christians started their own ISP, they might block things on the internet as being anti-Christian. And what if this company was the only one in a certain area. Since ISPs are a natural near-monopoly, this is almost certainty. Then there are people who are denied rights. What's to stop Comcast from deciding that youtube is too good of competition to its cable offerings and then just throttling or cutting off access to youtube? Nothing! And if Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc. all decided at once that YouTube was evil, and blocked it. What could anyone do to stop it under current laws? Nothing. YouTube is dumb though. What if they cut off all anti-corporate sites, democratic and/or republican sites, foreign sites... There's nothing to protect the public from the corporations' huge ability to basically cut off the country from information for all practical purposes. Just because they haven't done it so far, doesn't mean that we don't need a law to protect us from it.
If you think a law isn't necessary, and a bunch of other people do, then why wouldn't you just approve it? From your perspective, the law would have no effect, positive or negative. To the other people, you look like you agree with them. Win-Win.
Therefore I conclude, that large companies and congressional Republicans are lying. Of course, that was really my thought before I read this article.
Unfortunately, all of the experience in both the industry and the military is with LWR's, so that's what all of the current "new" designs are based on. Generation IV reactors are still 10-20 years off for commercial use.
Loss of power will cause a reactor trip, but the fuel rods aren't going anywhere. That'd be bad. They have a lot of decay heat that needs to be cooled by the water.
Try reading the side of a disk drive. 300 GB on a drive is 300,000,000,000 bytes. When you plug it in to your computer you're short quite a few Gibibytes.
from NEI:
Producing hydrogen with the use of gas-cooled, high-temperature nuclear reactors: A demonstration gas-cooled, high-temperature reactor is expected to be operating by 2007. The coolant temperature will be around 900 degrees Centigrade, and the reactor is intended to produce hydrogen through high-temperature electrolysis or thermochemical water splitting.
The sole purpose of these reactors could be to create hydrogen which can be used as a liquid fuel or in fuel cells as discussed in other posts here. This would be a replacement for gasoline and other portable energy sources.
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Shaw, Westinghouse get full OK for nuclear EPC
9 April 2009 â" The Shaw Group's nuclear unit and Westinghouse Electric Co. received full notice to proceed from Southern Nuclear, a unit of Southern Co., on its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for two Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units and related facilities.
The contract was announced in April 2008. On March 17, 2009, Georgia regulators certified Southern Co. unit Georgia Power Co. to build Units 3 and 4 at the existing Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. Oglethorpe Power, Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities also own the plant. The notice to proceed authorizes Shaw to begin EPC services for the plant.
At least 14 new AP1000 units â" including the units at Vogtle â" are planned by U.S. electric utilities, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Westinghouse/Shaw Consortium have six of those contracts.
http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/358844/6/ARTCL/none/none/1/Shaw,-Westinghouse-get-full-OK-for-nuclear-EPC/
Firefox's address bar does way more than just let you type in an address. It searches all history and bookmarks in real time. It's awesome.
I don't know what IE8 does.
Me neither.
What's a "decent" living? Having a family of four and an Escalade while working at McDonalds? Who determines that? Oh that's right, instead of determining that yourself, giving your power to a union or government to do the thinking for you is the solution. Since you don't mind giving that decision away anyway, you might as well let your employer determine that for you.
In the '60s and '70s, an uneducated man could work a skilled job (McDonald's equivalent) 40 hours a week and provide for his family of four, including having an average home and an average vehicle. Replace "Escalade" with "Camry" and you're looking at what our country has lost.
Since you can't tell sarcasm from a hole in the wall, I have to inform you that Mr. Scrooge in that text you put is clearly bitter about having to pay for all of the "safety nets", far from "all for them".
And as a democrat who is all for government programs providing a safety net out of taxes and doesn't see much value in charity besides the tax benefit (like most people), I'd say that Scrooge is far more typical of upper-middle-class Republicans that I work with every day.
Since women and men think differently, teams would benefit from more gender equality in the reduction of groupthink and increase in perspectives.
The purpose of the government is whatever the people say its purpose is. If the people decide that they want to take from the top 5% richest people who own 20% of the wealth in the country, and give it to themselves, then that's what will happen.
Look at the economic prosperity between 1940 and 1970. Then look a the federal income tax and estate tax rates in that time period. You shall see that the taxes were high, and the middle class was created. Starting in 1980, the middle class started to disappear, and it continues to this day. Only high taxes on the rich can recreate the middle class.
I graduated with a Mechanical degree 2 years ago and took a 50k+ job right out of school, and I just moved in to my new 350k+ house. I'm also working as a software engineer now and taking graduate classes online.
Technically, only the stack and heap are modified. The code section is unmodified (except in self-modifying code which is rare). Blizzard owns the copy of the code segments which do not change.
Your operating systems constantly copies pieces of software between the CPU registers, caches, RAM, and disk.
Not everyone has their own web servers. This system uses the OpenDHT so anyone can use it, and it doesn't depend on your servers being up.
Since so many people enabled BT encryption, this whole idea of theirs has really backfired. Now, even if they were to shape some traffic to try to keep BT traffic in the network, so many people will now keep this encryption on that it won't work as well as it would have if they would have, in the first place, worked with the technology instead of against.
"Only" held back by economic factors? Sir, the whole world runs on economic factors.
The industry required to build plants (iron workers, welders, shipping, raw materials, etc.) precludes getting a fleet of 30 new plants up and running in anything less than 20 years. He's just being realistic.
Chernobyl is nothing like any plants in the US.
There are only a few plants like 3-Mile island, and the issue was fixed. Including in other plant designs, where they added a detector on pipe by the block valve out of the pressurizer, to verify that the valve is shut. Further, there has been huge amounts of advances in emergency procedure and trainings since then.
Also, all of the new designs that are just now being completed (and built in China) fail safe as well, even though they too are light water reactors.
Sorry, I misread your last statement as saying net neutrality was unnecessary.
In the '90s, Clinton deregulated several industries. Among them: commercial power, media, and investment banking.
Current situation in commercial power: deregulated markets are seeing huge increases in rates; there is little-to-no new-plant build, the infrastructure is crumbling, and brown-outs all over the country are likely to be necessary within a decade unless something changes.
Current situation in media: there are 3 media companies, owned by even larger companies, that provide something like 85% of all media in the United States. They focus on profit and entertainment over truth and Real News. They peddle non-issues like Wright and Fake News like WomanWithHalfGallonSilliconBoob stories. Faux News is awful, but CNN and MSNBC aren't much better. ABC is owned by Disney. NBC is owned by GE. CBS is owned by Viacom. About 40% of Americans still think that Saddam Hussein had something to do with Al Quaeda. And some ridiculously high number believe God created the planet and the universe and everything on it 6000 years ago.
Current situation in investment banking: investment bankers invested in sub-prime high-risk mortgages. They used their investments as a way to boost their image to stockholders. The sudden drop in housing values had one firm almost going under, saved by the Fed, and others talking about the apocalypse coming. CEOs of these companies are walking away with millions while thousands of Americans that were sold a dream of low mortgage payments (they're to blame too, but they're the ignorant ones) are losing their homes, and it's dragging down the whole economy.
Tell me again, how is it that deregulation helps?
I don't think that's a valid comparison. In your example, there is one PHB. In the net neutrality example, there are many people.
I can draw an analogy to pharmacies. Currently, there are fundamentalist Christians who won't fill prescriptions for contraception. This should be illegal. A pharmacy should be drug-neutral. I think the same thing applies to ISPs. If fundamentalist Christians started their own ISP, they might block things on the internet as being anti-Christian. And what if this company was the only one in a certain area. Since ISPs are a natural near-monopoly, this is almost certainty. Then there are people who are denied rights. What's to stop Comcast from deciding that youtube is too good of competition to its cable offerings and then just throttling or cutting off access to youtube? Nothing! And if Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc. all decided at once that YouTube was evil, and blocked it. What could anyone do to stop it under current laws? Nothing. YouTube is dumb though. What if they cut off all anti-corporate sites, democratic and/or republican sites, foreign sites... There's nothing to protect the public from the corporations' huge ability to basically cut off the country from information for all practical purposes. Just because they haven't done it so far, doesn't mean that we don't need a law to protect us from it.
If you think a law isn't necessary, and a bunch of other people do, then why wouldn't you just approve it? From your perspective, the law would have no effect, positive or negative. To the other people, you look like you agree with them. Win-Win.
Therefore I conclude, that large companies and congressional Republicans are lying. Of course, that was really my thought before I read this article.
I'm not a heavy user by any means. I don't go downloading all isos and everything. here's my usage. I started tracking around January 20th.
$ vnstat -m
eth0 / monthly
month rx | tx | total
Jan '08 26.70 GB | 34.97 GB | 61.67 GB
Feb '08 65.46 GB | 111.99 GB | 177.45 GB
Mar '08 52.28 GB | 139.67 GB | 191.95 GB
Apr '08 53.86 GB | 155.96 GB | 209.82 GB
May '08 13.99 GB | 47.73 GB | 61.72 GB
estimated 58.14 GB | 198.38 GB | 256.52 GB
Unfortunately, all of the experience in both the industry and the military is with LWR's, so that's what all of the current "new" designs are based on. Generation IV reactors are still 10-20 years off for commercial use.
Loss of power will cause a reactor trip, but the fuel rods aren't going anywhere. That'd be bad. They have a lot of decay heat that needs to be cooled by the water.
Try reading the side of a disk drive. 300 GB on a drive is 300,000,000,000 bytes. When you plug it in to your computer you're short quite a few Gibibytes.
Is it pebibytes or petabytes? They're 12% apart. That's a big deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebibyte
from NEI: Producing hydrogen with the use of gas-cooled, high-temperature nuclear reactors: A demonstration gas-cooled, high-temperature reactor is expected to be operating by 2007. The coolant temperature will be around 900 degrees Centigrade, and the reactor is intended to produce hydrogen through high-temperature electrolysis or thermochemical water splitting. The sole purpose of these reactors could be to create hydrogen which can be used as a liquid fuel or in fuel cells as discussed in other posts here. This would be a replacement for gasoline and other portable energy sources.