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Westinghouse Nuclear Plants Approved For Construction
Energy production and job creation? Does the Obama administration know about this??
The Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plant has been approved for construction in the US. This modern plant that includes passive safety features not requiring external power for emergency cooling is already being deployed in countries overseas. Two plants are to be constructed in Georgia by the Southern Company at the Vogtle facility and site preparations are already underway.

The AP1000 is one of a new generation of nuclear plants that use passive measures such as gravity, evaporation and condensation to remove excess heat in an emergency. The plant design is greatly simplified using requiring less piping, valves, control cabling, pumps, and earthquake hardened building volume than previous generation designs.

The building of the two plants in Georgia will result in 3500 construction jobs each during the construction phase and a permanent increase of 800 jobs to staff the two plants in addition to the 900 staff at existing plants 1 and 2 built in the 1980's.

Posted by: crosspatch 2012-01-01
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