America’s Nuclear Push Doesn’t Guarantee a Revival
Southern’s over-budget, delayed Vogtle reactors have made utilities wary of taking on another big project.
Construction at the Vogtle nuclear site in August 2013.
Photographer: Pallava Bagla/Corbis News
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Late last month, US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited the Vogtle power plant in rural Georgia to brag.