The NRC voted 4-1 to allow Atlanta-based Southern Co to build and operate two new nuclear power reactors at its existing Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia. The units will cost Southern and partners about $14 billion and enter service as soon as 2016 and 2017.
The approval was cold comfort for nuclear industry officials who have touted a "renaissance" that has failed to materialize, undercut by high costs and the cheapest natural gas prices in about a decade.
No nuclear power plants have been licensed in the United States since the partial meltdown of the reactor core of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979.
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I think, Long Now foundation and Stewart Brand played a huge part in this change of mindset. For the record, I became pro-nuclear after reading Stewart Brand Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
The approval was cold comfort for nuclear industry officials who have touted a "renaissance" that has failed to materialize, undercut by high costs and the cheapest natural gas prices in about a decade.
No nuclear power plants have been licensed in the United States since the partial meltdown of the reactor core of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979.
- More Here
I think, Long Now foundation and Stewart Brand played a huge part in this change of mindset. For the record, I became pro-nuclear after reading Stewart Brand Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
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