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TXU Follow-up

Remember when I said, a couple of weeks ago, that I hoped they'd "go nuke," after they canceled plans for 8 out of 11 coal-fired plants as part of the buyout agreement?

Well, lookie here....

The company said Wednesday that it selected a design by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan for at least two new reactors to expand its Comanche Peak nuclear power plant southwest of Dallas.

[...]

TXU told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a letter last Friday that it had selected Mitsubishi for the potential development of up to five reactors, making up as much as 6 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity.


(from the Dallas Morning News, of course)

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