Reply #5: and Virginia (among other places)

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A Chinese nuclear energy company has ordered more than $15 million in parts that Flowserve Corporation makes in factories in Lynchburg and in Raleigh, N.C.

Flowserve announced the deal on Wednesday.

China’s State Nuclear Power Engineering Company Ltd. ordered safety-related valves and actuators for Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors being built in China. The two reactors are expected to begin operating in 2014 and 2015, according to a news release.

The actuators will be built in Flowserve’s plant on Woodall Road in Lynchburg. Flowserve bought the former Limitorque facility in 2002. It employs about 250 people there. The valves for the order will be made at Flowserve’s facility in Raleigh, N.C.

“This order further strengthens our long-standing relationship with the Chinese nuclear power industry and with our customer, State Nuclear Power Engineering Company Ltd.,” said Mark Blinn, Flowserve President and Chief Executive Officer, in a news release. “We are proud to be a part of renewable energy production in China, which will reduce emissions and improve the environment.”

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/business/local/article/chinese_nuclear_company_places_15_million_order_with_flowserve/24927/

Construction began in late 2009 BTW. Wait 2014-2009 = 5 years. I thought it takes 19 years to build a reactor?
AP1000 isn't that the GenIII reactor planned for GA. So we need to believe the Chinese can build it in 5 years but Americans (the people who invented the concept of electrical energy from the atom) can't? China buying high precision safety equipment from the United States.

It is almost like everything I have heard about nuclear power in "studies" conflicts with the facts in real world.