On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:39:33 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


The new procedure changes that. A permit to operate is issued up front
.... contingent upon successful compliance with all inspections
conducted during the design and build phase. As long as the plant
meets the approved design and build conditions, a license to operate is
already approved.


This may help get new plants off the dime.

Eisboch

The new procedure makes sense, as long as they don't try to sneak them
through in the middle of the night, so to speak. Besides the permitting,
there was another reason new nukes weren't built, cheap oil. Nuclear
energy is expensive. Coal, oil and natural gas, are, or were, cheaper.