After Decades - New Nuke Plant Coming On Line

[Cow Poke]

After Decades - A new Nuke Power Plant is coming on line...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...or-in-decades/

[Adrift]

Interesting. When I was a kid, everyone on the left was heavily against nuclear energy, but it seems the pendulum has swung the other way, and most of those who lean left on the very leftist forums I now read are heavily in support of nuclear energy. Strange days. Personally, I'm not too thrilled about it.

[Cow Poke]

Interesting. When I was a kid, everyone on the left was heavily against nuclear energy, but it seems the pendulum has swung the other way, and most of those who lean left on the very leftist forums I now read are heavily in support of nuclear energy. Strange days. Personally, I'm not too thrilled about it.

I guess it's as simple a matter as carbon has replaced nuke energy as the big bad demon which must be conquered.

Kinda like "my enemy's enemy is my friend" sorta thing.

[TheLurch]

This one was partly finished when work was suspended for decades, then restarted a few years back. The interesting ones to watch are at Vogtle, in Georgia, which are the first completely new construction since nuclear started picking back up again. There's been cost overruns, technical glitches, and changes made in response to what we learned from Fukushima, so the plant has been delayed several times. If they can push through and get it done, though, it would provide some indication of how viable nuclear is in the US.