A new nuclear reactor in the US started up in March — the country's first in nearly 7 years. Here are 3 simple ways to invest in the space

Money Wise via MSN ^ | 22 May 2023 | Jing Pan

[Alas Babylon!]

Nuclear power has its pros and cons. Right now, the U.S. seems to be embracing its advantages.

Last month, Georgia Power announced that its Vogtle Unit 3 reactor has safely reached 'initial criticality.' “A reactor achieves criticality when the nuclear fission reaction becomes self-sustaining,” the company said in a statement.

“Achieving initial criticality is necessary to continue the startup of the Unit in order to generate sufficient heat for the production of electricity.”

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesperson Scott Burnell told CNBC that this marked the first nuclear reactor to achieve initial criticality since May 2016. Georgia Power expects Vogtle Unit 3 to be fully in service in May or June this year. The company’s CEO said that the unit should be able to produce “clean and emission-free energy for the next 60 to 80 years.”

Given the global energy crisis, more nuclear reactors could come online. So for savvy investors, it might be a good time to check out some nuclear energy stocks.

[Alas Babylon!]

This is good news, but we need a hell of a lot more of them in the world, especially right here in the Good Ole USA!

[Alas Babylon!]

Also, Free Republic says: msn.com material must be excerpted and linked.

[Sacajaweau]

We have so much natural gas here in NYS...and they insist that it should all be shut down. The latest is that it’s making people sick...Well...mom lived till 90...all the neighbors made it until at least their 80s...AND we had lead pipes, too.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I don't think the current Administration or the coming one(s) will be so keen to allow any new nukes to be built or started.

This makes the upcoming 2024 election very important.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’ve never understood why the enviro extremists and the liberals oppose nuclear power.

Nuclear power plants produce zero greenhouse gases. They profess to be worried about the greenhouse gases. Yet a technology which produces zero of that pollution is rejected.

[dfwgator]

I’ve never understood why the enviro extremists and the liberals oppose nuclear power.

"The issue is never the issue!"

[Menehune56]

Scary China Syndrome movie 1979

[No.6]

>This is good news, but we need a hell of a lot more of them in the world, especially right here in the Good Ole USA!

Exactly. Completely apart from all the green agenda BS, there’s a steady and growing demand everywhere for consistent electricity.

Taking the lefties at their word (haha): if EVs were really a goal, they would clamor for tons of cheap steady electricity so as to effect the transition.

Because they *don’t* and instead insist on highly variable sources, we know they’re not serious about ‘transitioning’ to EVs but really only want personal transportation shut down.

[dfwgator]

I remember The Pepsi Syndrome.



Rosalynn Carter: Well how big is he?

Dr. Edna Casey: Well Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?

Rodney Dangerfield: How do you do, how are you?

Ross Denton: Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?

Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!

Rosalynn Carter: Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!

Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!

Rosalynn Carter: Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!

Rodney Dangerfield: I don’t want to upset you lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!

Rosalynn Carter: No! No! No!

Ross Denton: Rodney, thank you very much. You can go.

Rodney Dangerfield: It’s my pleasure. He’s way up there, lady! you know what I mean?

[NorthMountain]

I’ve never understood why the enviro extremists and the liberals oppose nuclear power.

Because they're liars. They were all for it, until it proved successful. Now they're against it, because it provides steady, controllable, reliable, inexpensive energy for We the People.

Can't have that. The peasants must live in misery and squalor.

[Billthedrill]

I’ve never understood why the enviro extremists and the liberals oppose nuclear power.

They think we're "poisoning the planet" by putting nuclear waste into the ground. The rest of the world reprocesses it but the U.S. hasn't been allowed to since 1977. By those very same people.

[woodbutcher1963]

Plus the Soviets did not put containment domes over their reactors like the one in Chernobal. So, when it melted down the cloud of radio active steam was vented into the atmosphere.

The Seabrook, NH plant built in the 1980s has a 6’ thick rebar reinforced dome over the reactor. My former neighbor helped build it. He said it was designed to withstand a direct impact of a 747.

[Samurai_Jack]

commission a few more (read dozens) of these and electric cars might make sense for a few people.

[redangus]

It’s because the energy policy of the Left is NO energy for the masses. As soon as coal and natural gas are shut down they’ll start attacking wind and solar. It’s not about CO2. It’s about elitists reestablishing the feudal system.

[Amendment10]

"I’ve never understood why the enviro extremists and the liberals oppose nuclear power."

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Extremists and the liberals have probably never been taught basic science. Instead, they've likely been indoctrinated to let others do their "thinking" for them which is mostly hating and demonizing.

[marktwain]

I’ve never understood why the enviro extremists and the liberals oppose nuclear power.

Nuclear power plants produce zero greenhouse gases. They profess to be worried about the greenhouse gases. Yet a technology which produces zero of that pollution is rejected.

At first, primarily, because most "Greens" are watermelons - Green on the outside, and red on the inside. It was a way to cripple the west, especially the United States.

Now it is part of the overall globalization and China First strategy. Plenty of nukes in places other than Western Civilization. Just keep breaking down the West and building up the Rest.

[MachIV]

When I was a kid in the early 80’s I remember when leftists were protesting the construction then of what was to become the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant in southern Indiana.

Between leftist groups and a claim that there was faulty construction in the concrete of the reactors along with a cost overrun, I think then Governor Robert Orr decided to being construction to a hault.

Nuclear fusion never happened there. It never went online and today I believe the property is dormant. A big shame.

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. My fear of nuclear is that it’ll be even easier than other power sources for the Dims to excuse shutting it down by saying that “nuclear is dangerous, doncha know?”. It was very recently, the Obama years, that the Dims were forcing power companies to shut down coal plants and replace them with “clean burning” natural gas ones. Now they treat natural gas as the bogey man hiding under the bed.

[aquila48]

Meanwhile China is planning to build 150 over the next 15 years.

[zeestephen]

Slightly unnerving that an article about nuclear reactors is posted by someone with the screen name Alas Babylon!

There are two new reactors waiting to be fired up and certified.

Cost, according to Wiki - about $15 billion each, adjusted for inflation.

The first two units, which have been operating since 1989, cost about $9 billion each, adjusted for inflation.

Cost over runs are HUGE because USA regulatory agencies constantly require re-designs and tear downs during construction.