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GOOD FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Administration to Push for Small ?Modular? Reactors. ?The l?

By Glenn Reynolds

GOOD FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Administration to Push for Small ?Modular? Reactors. “The longer-term goal is to foster assembly-line production of the small reactors at a far lower cost than construction of conventional reactors. The reactors could even replace old coal-fired power plants that are threatened by new federal emissions rules and sit on sites that already have grid connections and cooling water.” And beyond that, there are many other applications. Faster, please. Some early efforts may be in my neck of the woods: “The Tennessee Valley Authority has publicly discussed the idea of placing several small modular reactors on a site adjacent to the Clinch River just outside Oak Ridge, Tenn., where 30 years ago the government tried to build a breeder reactor, which would have produced more fuel than it consumes. That site could supply power to the government?s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, some experts say.” Good. But we should have built that breeder reactor.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 14, 2011 (boomark / email).