| Energy production and job creation? Does the Obama administration know about this?? |
The AP1000 is one of a new generation of nuclear plants that use passive measures such as gravity, evaporation and condensation to remove excess heat in an emergency. The plant design is greatly simplified using requiring less piping, valves, control cabling, pumps, and earthquake hardened building volume than previous generation designs.
The building of the two plants in Georgia will result in 3500 construction jobs each during the construction phase and a permanent increase of 800 jobs to staff the two plants in addition to the 900 staff at existing plants 1 and 2 built in the 1980's.