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...Even the improvements that the industry never tires of trumpeting--more efficient, longer-running plants--do little to comfort antinuclear activists. "They're running these reactors hotter and longer," says Paul Gunter of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Last year the Indian Point 2 plant, part of a trio of upstate New York reactors Entergy recently bought for around $1 billion, was temporarily closed down after radioactive water leaked from a ruptured steam tube. Just as the plants are getting older and more prone to problems, critics assert, the nrc is letting operators police themselves...
...Designers of new plants in nuclear-friendly regions say they can now minimize that construction risk. Much like the so-called cookie-cutter model in France, where nuclear power accounts for 80% of the electricity, any new generation of nuclear plant in the U.S. would have to be based on a standard design instead of the current hodgepodge of complicated configurations. Westinghouse Electric's new, simplified unit, for instance, is modular and can practically be put together on an assembly line, relying more on natural forces like gravity and less on moving parts...
...First Party, led by former KMT stalwart James Soong, have opposing interests and will find it difficult to coalesce. A good showing in December, and Chen's disappointing first year?especially his mishandling of a pledge to keep Taiwan nuclear-free by canceling and then reinstating a planned power plant?could be forgotten as Chen pushes through his legislative agenda. As mayor of Taipei, he was a tireless promoter of quality of life issues?shutting down sex shops, getting a light-rail urban transit system into operation, installing special bus lanes to unsnarl Taipei's notorious traffic and beautifying...
...Jiang serving on the board of directors. It broke ground in November and should start producing eight-inch (20 cm) silicon wafers, used to make computer chips, starting late next year. It is Taiwan's biggest high-tech project in China. Just 50 m away, however, a nearly identical plant is under construction, this one owned by one of Taiwan's best-known chipmakers, Richard Chang's Semiconductor Manufacturing International. Combined, the dozen production lines in the two factories should be able to produce about a fifth of Taiwan's total output. Government officials privately concede that they're also...
...everywhere than Cheney, in his about-to-be-released energy plan, acknowledges. He sniffs at conservation as a "sign of personal virtue" and not much more. Yet in Seattle, the first place to make coffee a separate food group, Conservation Wusses have saved the equivalent of a new power plant over two decades. In the late 1970s, instead of merely investing in new plants, Seattle City Light focused on incentives to change consumption patterns and invested in boosting efficiency. While much of California is sweltering, its groceries spoiling, its office buildings dark--and paying dearly for the privilege--Seattle...