China is building nuclear only because they are sitting on piles of cash and don’t have to pay for financing new plants like we have to do in the west.

Additionally, nuclear takes too long to build. We need clean power on line right now, not decades from now.

Large solar arrays are installed in only months and don’t require lots of high skilled labor. Wind farms are completed in less than two years, sometimes less than one year. Construction on the new Finnish reactor was begun in 2003 and they are hoping to start fueling in 2013.

We do not have the capability of building more than two or three reactors at a time in the US. We don’t have the trained engineers and construction people needed. The best we could hope for is to replace the reactors which will be closed as they wear out.

And pay attention to China. They’ve been increasing their goals for wind and solar over the last few years. At the same time they seem to be going a bit soft on new nuclear. China has a very practical government, they
can do math. China knows quite well how rapidly the cost of solar and wind
are falling.

… just wanted to remind you that none of the three units at Browns Ferry were ever shut down. Power was reduced to 50 percent for a few days due to water temperatures from the hot weather. All three units had returned to operating at 100 percent power by Monday night as lower river temperatures and increased river flow from sustained rainfall arrived in the area. TVA will continue to monitor river temperatures to ensure Browns Ferry stays within the river temperature limit set by a water discharge permit issued by the State of Alabama.”
http://theenergycollective.com/jcwinnie/62883/brown-s-ferry-nuclear-power-plant-has-shut-down-again#comment-20940?ref=latest_comments

http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2011/07/hydrosols-and-microbubbles.html

http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html

http://www.realclimate.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_great_global_warming_swindle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boj9ccV9htk