New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years

Guinnessy writes "As oil, coal, and gas become increasingly expensive, energy utilities take another look at nuclear power. The nuclear reactor builders are jostling for business as more than 26 plants may be ordered or constructed over the next five years in Canada, China, several European Union countries, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, and South Africa. Companies in the US and UK may order an additional 15 new reactors. Physics Today magazine has a global roundup of the new plants on construction, and how the builders are getting around some of the potential road blocks in their path. I'm sure many slashdot readers would be surprised to know that some new plants will be coming online so soon."

Alternative: fusion

[Harmonious Botch]

Err...if you're patient.

Re:coal

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a former power plant worker out there that's DQ'd for life from working in a nuclear power plant because he absorbed too much radioactivity from his house

This worker was Dairy Queened for life? Hell, I build everything from coal ash if that is the result. ;)

Re:Alternative: fusion

[Comatose51]

Well all of us nerds have waited decades already for sentient AI, manned interplanetary missions, fusion, and sex, what is another decade?

Re:Move towards wind or hydro.

[Clover_Kicker]

> It is likely that we will see nations like Denmark and Canada,
> which have put significant resources towards wind, hydro,
> solar, tidal, and other renewable energy sources

Hmm, I'm Canadian and I can't think of any large-scale wind or tidal energy projects here. The idea of large-scale solar power at this latitude is pretty funny, though.

There's a lot of hydro energy here, only because we've got lots of trackless wilderness to flood.

Re:I'm worried about new plants in the US...

[nege]

woohoo!

      Homer: Hey, you guys aren't from around here, are you?
      Man 1: Ach, nein. We are from Chermany. He is from ze East. I am from ze Vest.
      Man 2: I hat a big company, and he hat a big company, and now we have a very big company.
      Man 1: We are interested in buying the power plant. Do you think the owner will ever sell it?
      Homer: Well, I happen to know that he won't sell it for less than $100 million!
      Man 2: 100 million?
      Man 1: [opens a briefcase of cash, counts] Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fuenf...
                    Oh, don't vorry, we still enough left to buy the Cleveland Browns.

Re:Nuclear Waste?

[Mister White]

Well...

How about we just radiate large areas of unpopulated land, plant some seeds, and see what radioactive grapes look(and/or taste) like...

Or...maybe not...

Re:Alternative: fusion

[rdoger6424]

Really? But it's just 1 AU away from me!

Re:Alternative: fusion

[fLameDogg]

...the main problem is that the fusion reactor is 93 million miles away (150 million Km).

That's not a bug, that's a feature.

Fusion is the energy of the future

[Physics Nobody]

Always has been, always will be ;)

Re:Alternative: fusion

[brianerst]

I, personally, have been waiting for interplanetary missionary position sex with a fusion-powered sentient AI, but that's just me...