Cheney to Promote Nuke Reactors to China ...(Just ducky )

[SoCalDem]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3961196,00.html

Cheney to Promote Nuke Reactors to China

Saturday April 10, 2004 6:01 AM


By H. JOSEF HEBERT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - On a trip to China next week to talk about high-stakes issues like terrorism and North Korea, Vice President Dick Cheney will have another task - making a pitch for Westinghouse's U.S. nuclear power technology.

At stake could be billions of dollars in business in coming years and thousands of American jobs. The initial installment of four reactors, costing $1.5 billion apiece, would also help narrow the huge U.S. trade deficit with China.

China's latest economic plan anticipates more than doubling its electricity output by 2020 and the Chinese government, facing enormous air pollution problems, is looking to shift some of that away from coal-burning plants. Its plan calls for building as many as 32 large 1,000-megawatt reactors over the next 16 years.

No one has ordered a new nuclear power reactor in the United States in three decades and the next one, if it comes, is still years away. So, China is being viewed by the U.S. industry as a potential bonanza.

Cheney's three-day visit to Beijing and Shanghai next week is part of a weeklong trip to Asia that will also include a stop in Tokyo. He departed Washington on Friday.


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[NJCher]

1. every time I think they've reached a new low

They always surprise me.

What a sickening development. These people have got to go.


Cher

[rucky]

2. Westinghouse owns CBS

this message was brought to you by America, Inc.

[Dover]

3. Apparently Cheney's health is good enough to do sales.

And that is probably why the GOP is promoting nuclear energy with such gusto at home and making it seem vital...so China and other developing countries will buy our old energy systems while we jump ahead with something new. It's a possibility anyway...

[ahimsa]

4. Tai-what?

I must have missed the mention of Taiwan in that article. I mean Hong Kong. Wait.. am I thinking of a different country?

:eyes:

[Moderator]

5. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=476285