Carter and the overreaction of Three Mile Island destroyed the nuclear industry in the this country. We would be who knows where if that had not happened.
That incident and the movie China Syndrome closed it all down with fear and hysteria.
45 years late in moving back to this given the time involved in approvals and the building of nuclear power plant and with today’s DEI stuff no way I want to be near any of that.
Three Mile Island was a black eye for nuclear construction in this country, and that lingered through many presidencies past Carter’s. (Interestingly, Reagan approved the sale of nuclear power plants to China in 1985. No US plants were initiated during his presidency.) The Fukushima disaster and the Westinghouse bankruptcy created further hurdles. The Infrastructure Act of 2022 targeted $6 billion for nuclear power plant construction.
Watts Bar in Georgia was the most recent commissioned, back in 2016, up till Vogtle-4 in Tennessee, which just went on-line last month.