Update to an earlier post and new entry to Blogroll

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I had posted earlier about Duke Power and their proposed order of two Westinghouse AP1000 Reactors: Nukes on order I received this comment from Rod Adams:
The news that you have reported is definitely good, but you have weakened your publication's credibility with the incorrect numbers that you have posted.

The capacity of the AP 1000 is a bit more than 1100 MWe, not 11 MWe.

I am pretty sure that your figure for electric power demands of New York City is also off by a factor of 100.
He is right on both counts. I quoted the Power Output figure from Westinghouse's website with a little rounding but I dropped two orders of magnitude in the rounding process! From the AP1000 website
The AP1000 is an advanced 1117 to 1154 MWe nuclear power plant that uses the forces of nature and simplicity of design to enhance plant safety and operations and reduce construction costs.
Also to address the question of New York City's electrical demand, I did a bit of googling and ran into this excellent paper which starts with 2000 and projects it forward to 2005. For 2000, the Summer Peak Load was 10,340 MW for NYC and 4,564 for Long Island. (The total for the entire state was 30,200 -- the city is quite the consumer.) That makes my error a factor of 295 times off. Again, I am sorry for my errors -- the 35 MW for NYC was stuck in my brain from somewhere and I failed to fact-check myself when quoting it. As for the new entry to the blogroll -- Rod Adams runs this website: Atomic Insights His blog is here: Atomic Insights Blog A welcome addition and thanks!

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More good nuclear development news:

"Progress Energy said Tuesday that it will apply for licenses to build as many as four nuclear reactors, marking the nation's most ambitious nuclear construction program in two decades.

The Raleigh-based utility announced it would develop two nuclear sites, one in Florida and the other in the Carolinas. Each site could accommodate two reactors. Officials expect to pick the sites this year.

Company representatives made the surprise announcement during a public meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, Md. Progress Energy had previously said it would pick just one site this year for a new nuclear plant, as have at least five other utilities, including Duke Power in Charlotte.

"What Progress discussed today is the largest proposed application that we have seen so far," said commission spokesman Scott Burnell.

Progress Energy has 2.9 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida, and has said it will need new sources of power to meet rising customer demand in the coming decades..."

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