We will need a lot more than 1 or 2 (will it take 30 years to get them built??) when BO shuts down all the coal plants.
Or just get the government out of the way and let the power folks, both renewable and supposedly non renewable (Deep Hot Biosphere), go about the business of powering innovation.
Thermal Depolymerization!
Would you like to see my listing of bridges for sale or do you have one picked out already?
has anyone considered that “maybe” this administration knows the world is heading into the next mini ice age and better get ready to prevent at least some of the US population from freezing to death?
Maybe if DC is destined to become a snowy wasteland much of the year, this nuke plant will provide power to an alternate US capitol- in Atlanta
I remember reading somewhere that there are actually 16 of them ready to be built awaiting (and awaiting and awaiting and awaiting) regulatory approval.
Hurrah for Georgia!
Hoping this will one day lower my energy bill.
He’ll let the unions make a few billion digging holes and pouring concrete, but it will just be a big empty tomb for our tax dollars. It will never be fired up.
Hey, it’s more than Bush and a GOP-majority Congress did... and he’s doing it in the face of his uber-Green supporters. I give him credit for this one... if it actually comes online... Heck, even if it doesn’t, it help future administrations lay the groundwork for more.
“The money being thrown at renewable power can be much better spent by putting it towards new technology Nuclear plants.”
We need to legitimize the mass production of micro nukes in the 1-100 megawatt range. Several companies are in the design phase of such plants, and they offer numerous advantages in security, distributed power generation, and economy.