TN site considered for new reactor

[Old Coot]

Tennessean

WASHINGTON -- A Tennessee site is being considered for construction of a new generation of smaller, modular nuclear energy plants, a Tennessee Valley Authority official said Wednesday at a news conference to introduce the new power plant design.

Jack Bailey, TVA vice president for nuclear generation development, said the agency is looking at the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge for the first of the new mPower reactor being developed by Babcock & Wilcox Co. The Clinch River Breeder Reactor project was cancelled in 1983 after more than a decade of development because of huge cost overruns and other concerns.

Babcock & Wilcox officials say the mPower reactors can be built at their factories and then shipped by rail to construction sites. They are in smaller 125-megawatt units that can be grouped together; and are in below-ground containment structures that make them safer.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090610/NEWS02/90610047/TN+site+considered+for+new+reactor

[Kalyke]

1. Oh, hell no.

First they ruin us with ash and now they're going to poison us, too?