All the rest being true, NIMBY isn’t a problem here.
Have you folks ever been to rural Burke Co. Ga?
It’s not even really good for farmland. Vogle’s closest neighbor is the Savannah River Site. Next is Girard, Ga. The folks there are making out well off of leasing their land to the workers at the plant to park their RVs.
I sometimes go that way to Augusta. It’s 20 miles from no where.
With this nuclear plant, the problem is not with folks in Screven, Jenkins, Emmanuel, Jefferson or Richmond counties worried about their back yards. It is the NIMBY folks in San Francisco, Cambridge Mass and Madison raising a stink about THEIR backyard of Planet Earth.
Add to them the political pandering class living in Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington, Stafford & Prince William Counties, VA plus Howard & Montgomery counties, MD.
Finally, add the Greater NYC residents of the MSM and it seems that everyone is gunning to stop any nuclear plant construction.