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About damn time! As a Georgia Power ratepayer, I've only already been paying extra for it for what, around a decade now?
That's the downside of nuclear. Cost and build time. Upside is it's reliable and carbon-clean.
The best time to build a nuclear power plant was thirty years ago. The second best time is now.
They took the average of that and built it 10 years ago
The 1.3th best time to build a nuclear power plant was 10 years ago
This encapsulates the public response to building nuclear. I guess that is why it is the first in decades.
To be clear, my comment isn't "the public response to building nuclear;" it's "the public response to corruptly financing nuclear on the backs of ratepayers while guaranteeing zero-risk profit for shareholders, despite incredible incompetence and cost overruns building the thing."
If you think that bullshit is inherent to building nuclear, I won't dispute it, but I will say it makes you even more cynical than me!
I would've had no problem with it at all if it weren't a fucking scam to gouge me for somebody else's profit.