A case in point is the Shoreham plant on New York's Long Island. Shoreham was a virtual twin to the Millstone 1 plant in Connecticut, both ordered in the mid-60's. Millstone, completed for $101 million, has been generating electricity for two decades. Shoreham, however, was singled out by anti-nuclear activists who, by filing endless protests, drove the cost over $5 billion and delayed its use for many years.
Shoreham finally won its operating license. But the plant has never produced a watt of power. Gov. Mario Cuomo, an opponent of a Shoreham startup, strong-armed New York's public-utilities commission into the following settlement: the power company could pass the cost of Shoreham along to its consumers only if it agreed not to operate the plant! Today, a perfectly good facility, capable of servicing hundreds of thousands of homes, sits rusting.
from this link.
well no, not sitting-rusting, the already dirty core had been moved to seattle washington and disposed of. at a cost of many millions more. Shoreham can not operate because the main part of it is GONE.
Yeah, I actually provided a similiar link a half hour ago, but a moderator has me on a "submitted for review" leash for "posting crap." In reality, the article that I posted (which was neither purient nor frivilous) was reposted to extended news by someone else. It remained there for the rest of the day (presumably under the watch of that same moderator) and received 100+ hits. This website has really gone downhill in recent years.