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To: axial who wrote (117755)	2/13/2009 2:22:20 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206184

Jim Your comments are excellent as are the references. I have not worked on water power reactors since the early 70's so am so far out of date as to be obsolete. The atomicinsights reference is excellent. I completely agree with the author that the DOE/NRC are the main obstructions to getting a viable program going. Your closing paragraphs hit the nail on the head. Almost all of todays operating plants were a single design; no standard components, design and operation characteristics and on and on. Each power reactor was an independent project from design to construction. The supposed reason for this was increased knowledge and efficiency. It certainly did not decrease the costs. From scanning Nuclear News (ANS magazine) there does not appear to be any development and testing of new reactor concepts. The National Labs did much of the early water work but they seem to be out of the picture now. Again, thanks for your comments. Dave