Irony is a disciplinarian

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do.

Soren Kierkegaard

In the don’t count your chickens category, or maybe irony of the year…

March 9, 2011

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s ESBWR Receives NRC Final Design Approval

POWERnews

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced its next-generation reactor model, the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), has received a positive final safety evaluation report (FSER) and final design approval (FDA) from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The FDA constitutes a finding by the NRC staff that the ESBWR design is safe and all technical issues have been resolved. It clears the way for the ESBWR to be built in countries around the world that recognize the FDA of a reactor design as acceptance by the “country of origin.”
The NRC’s positive FSER clears the path for GEH’s ESBWR to receive the agency’s final design certification in the fall of 2011, providing regulatory finality of the ESBWR design in the United States.

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop