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DOE to OK $6.5B for Georgia Nuclear Plant

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 23 2014, @02:00AM   
from the all-hail-the-almighty-atom dept.

CyberB0B39 writes: "The Department of Energy is set to approve $6.5B for a Georgia nuclear power plant, the first such plant in more than 3 decades. While other nuclear plants are shutting down due to competition from natural gas, Atlanta-based Southern Company is forging ahead with its planned construction of the plant."

[ED Note: "For those that are wondering, the new nuclear plant will be based on the AP1000 design by Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, a company based in Pittsburgh, PA and a subsidiary of Toshiba."]

• Re:LFTR Thorium Reactor please.Re:LFTR Thorium Reactor please. (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday February 23 2014, @01:36PM

  by TheRaven (270) on Sunday February 23 2014, @01:36PM (#5176) Journal

  60MW is quite a large-sounding number, but it's over an order of magnitude smaller than the kinds of reactor we're talking about here, so I don't know that it counts as utility-scale. It would just about power a small town.

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• Re:LFTR Thorium Reactor please.(Score: 3) by wjwlsn on Sunday February 23 2014, @02:02PM

  by wjwlsn (171) on Sunday February 23 2014, @02:02PM (#5183) Homepage Journal

  Actually, 60 MW would satisfy me. That's big enough to demonstrate commercial feasibility. Many of the demonstrators I listed were of similar size. Light Water Reactor industry kind of followed a sequence like: 5 MW test, 50 MW demonstrator, 200-300 MW small plant, 600-800 MW full-size plant, 900-1300 MW fully developed evolution of basic design.

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