Comments on: Does America Still Have a Nuclear Industry?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:19:06 +0000

It was Toshiba that bought Westinghouse, they also make some eletronics products under that name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company

By: Alex at lllzzz

Alex at lllzzz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:01:47 +0000

Of course America still have that kind of industry. The differences is just the industry now used by the military. They’re lying if they said they don’t have it. I know it for sure.

By: Dirty, Dirty Clean Coal » INFRASTRUCTURIST

Dirty, Dirty Clean Coal » INFRASTRUCTURIST — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:52:10 +0000

[...] like France by replacing coal with nuclear. As a nation, we seem to be aware of the first task, but totally ignorant of the second. It would be interesting to see a major Hollywood director take on the latter, [...]

By: Matt Morehouse

Matt Morehouse — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:20:59 +0000

Why doesn’t the nuclear industry mount a PR campaign like the coal, oil, gas, solar, and wind industries.
we hear absolutely nothing about the obvious benefits of terrestrial energy in any mass media.

By: Commodities Broker | DrumBeat: February 17, 2009 | Commodities Options | Commodities Futures | Commodities Prices

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:23:21 +0000

[...] Does America Still Have a Nuclear Industry? The nuclear industry was born in America. But today while it’s booming in the rest of world, it seems to be dying here. In the halcyon days of the ’60s and ’70s, the three largest builders of reactors were all U.S. companies. Today, there is only GE and it is starting to lag far behind foreign rivals. Since last November, Exelon, the nation’s largest nuclear fleet owner, and Dominion, one of the most ambitious utilities in applying for new reactors, both announced they will drop plans to build GE reactors. Around the same time, Entergy, the nation’s second largest fleet owner, said it will “explore alternatives” to building with GE. This means that GE, which was already running in third place behind Westinghouse, now a Japanese company, and Areva, the French giant, is down to one planned reactor. How did we fall so far so fast? It’s actually been decades in the making. [...]

By: DrumBeat: February 17, 2009 | Bear Market Investments

DrumBeat: February 17, 2009 | Bear Market Investments — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:20:12 +0000

[...] Does America Still Have a Nuclear Industry? The nuclear industry was born in America. But today while it’s booming in the rest of world, it seems to be dying here. [...]

By: rojt88

rojt88 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:14:05 +0000

The newest low cost nuclear fisson reactors operating in Tsinghua University Peking China are the pebble bed type reactors that no not need heavy forgings. I’m sure the Chinese are willing to sell their expertise.

By: FT.com | FT Energy Source | The Source: Life after coal; Churches and drilling, US nuclear industry

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:04:37 +0000

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By: David Deans

David Deans — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:51:54 +0000

Unfortunately, America seems to be intent on similarly dismantling our oil industry. We invented the offshore industry and now the deep water industry. If we let our offshore rig count decline as we run out of good drilling prospects, how will we develop the drillers, pushers, OIMs, and engineers to maintain our leadership in this highly technical industry? We have a marketable advantage and we should work hard at maintaining it. Instead, it is politically acceptable to chase away a valuable industry. The Santa Barbara oil spill was in 1966 for God’s sake. Let it go. Offshore production spills much less oil than bringing it in by ship. We have the technology to responsibly develop our oil assets…let’s get going while we still have the infrastructure and talent.

By: JerseyGeoff

JerseyGeoff — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:50:18 +0000

The situation is worse than the story reports. A smart relative of mine was recently hired by a division of a major us firm that has been set up to provide Nuke plant replacement parts.
They need my relatives big brain to reverse engineer large valves and moving/non moving parts which must be replaced on the aging nuke plants we have in operation- remember that the aec continues to extend operating licenses. Why reverse engineer? because most of the suppliers/ original manufacturers went out of business years ago-and no plans or records exist any longer to make replacements parts for the plants already in service.

So we hollowed out our industrial base to the point where we can barely keep what we have operating, let alone build something new.
The large primary steel containment vessels required by the AEC can no longer be fabricated in the US by anyone- the only outfit now who can build one is a steelmaker in northern japan who happened to build the 18.1 inch guns in the Japanese Battleships Yamato and Musahi.