Age of Design of Nuc. Pwr. Plts.

["T. Welty" <tjw@engr.engr.uark.edu>]

For general info:

One, Chernobyl and U. S. plants are apples and oranges.  Two, there are 
new, standardized designs for new Power reactors which have been 
approved, but the only customers so far have been the Japanese.  The 
economic and regulatory climate in the U. S. is not stable enough for U. 
S. utilities to invest in them YET, even though they are U.S. designs and 
America NEEDS the capacity.  As far as the safety issue is concerned, I 
challenge you to find many industries in this country which have as 
satisfactory a safety record.


T. Welty
Engineer
SRCC