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Can The U.S. Even Build A Nuclear Plant These Days?
It's increasingly hard to justify spending billions on long-term power projects.
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A good explanation of why two half-finished nuclear reactors in South Carolina are being canned came in a press release sent out Monday afternoon by the Nuclear Energy Institute lamenting the decision:
I think we can all agree that building a nuclear power plant is quite an undertaking. And that's doubly so when it's been a generation or more since anyone else started building one in the U.S. and you're attempting a "first-of-its-kind" project, to boot.