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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cogito who wrote (111636)5/22/2009 3:19:00 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 541693
 
bloomberg.com.

here stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak.

Utilities that won't need the equipment for years are making $100 million down payments now on components Japan Steel makes from 600-ton ingots. Each year the Tokyo-based company can turn out just four of the steel forgings that contain the radioactivity in a nuclear reactor. Even after it doubles capacity in the next two years, there won't be enough production to meet building plans.
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It would take any competitor more than five years to catch up with Japan Steel's technology, said the company's chief executive officer, Masahisa Nagata.
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``There is definitely a bottleneck,'' Van Dorsselaer said. ``It's a real issue for us.''
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