This is CBSI in the World. I'm John Batchy with Robert Zubrin. His book is The Case

for Nukes, How We Can Be Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future.

Addressing the United States and what is to be done, but the ambition to grow more

energy resources without undercutting the environment in some fashion. And we come to

news. Westinghouse Electric, the U.S. nuclear technology giant, is developing a compact

version of its flagship power plant, a move aimed at making its designs more competitive

in markets that don't need large conventional reactors. This is a report from Bloomberg

News. Most recently, Robert, this looks like a way forward. Has Westinghouse found the

magic formula in Washington, not only to build the air, but to export small reactors?

Okay. Well, they have found a potentially useful formula. Now, by the way, you should know,

right now, the people dominating the nuclear reactor export market is Russia. I believe

they're soon going to be overtaken and pushed out of that by China, which has bought a few

not Russian nuclear reactors, have copied them and they're ready to go. Okay. So China's

all business, they may support Russia more than the United States, but they're in it for

the money. And China is building 450 nuclear power plants domestically between now and

the year 2050, and they're going to be exporting them everywhere. But the Westinghouse, the

Westinghouse used to export nuclear power plants. So what they've come up with here is the

design for a medium-sized nuclear power plant, 300 megawatts instead of the standard

1,000 or 1200, which has been the custom recently. And the idea is to go for new cities in the

developing world cities of 100, 200,000 people that are forming as countries in Africa, industrialize,

the people leave the villages, they go to cities and the cities initially are of medium-sized.

And they're too small for a thousand megawatt reactor, but maybe a 300 megawatt reactor.

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