Permit sought for new reactor at Georgia nuclear plant [View All]

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The Southern Co.'s nuclear subsidiary asked federal regulators Tuesday to approve a site for two new reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle nuclear plant in eastern Georgia.

The proposed project, which would nearly double Plant Vogtle's output of 2,430 megawatts, requires a permit by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Though the total cost is unknown, the purchase price of the reactors alone is estimated at up to $4 billion.

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=79041

Of course, this dishonest and morally deplorable propaganda fails to say just how much ENERGY these reactors would produce, in exaJoules, because we all know that anyone who uses units other than exajoules is a sack of shit. They do tell us that it will power 3 million homes, but that's a totally stooopid way to rate these things.

And they don't take into account the amount of time the reactors will have to be shut down or run at reduced capacity for maintenance purposes. If it's like other plants it will only be up at effectively 90% of the time. That other 10%, or 7.6663248E-3 exajoules per year, we will be completely and utterly surprised when we find that it simply does not exist. Imagine us with our shorts down around our ankles when we come to plug into that magic fairy-dust 243MW and find that our 90 inch plasma TV just sits there doing nothing. NOTHING I tell you -- and all after we've already opened the bottle of vaseline and popped in the Carmen Electra Playboy Pet of the Week DVD. All because we believed those lying sack-of-shit technology journalists, who knew full well (they are degreed communications majors after all) that they were DECEIVING us.

Oh, and then there's the astounding amount of this electricity we won't be able to use during the day because the plant will be generating it at night. I hope you all like to do your food preparation at 2AM, because these deceiving lying sack-of-shit technology journalist communication majors will have TRICKED you into thinking there will be enough power to run your cuisinart during the day, when in fact, IT IS ONLY AVAILABLE AT NIGHT. I suppose the rich people can afford to invest in battery operated major appliances along with their margarita mix. The rest of us will have to sleep during the day and then wake up at 8pm the next night with a horrible hangover. Ever had a hangover when it's dark, man?

If they really wanted to be honest, they would use real units, like the number of trickster deceiving lying sack-of-shit technology journalist communiciations majors that could be electrocuted at midnight using this power.

Damn those trickster deceiving lying sack-of-shit technology journalist communiciations majors who ought to be electrocuted. Damn them all.