Unless they’re talking about reopening an existing reactor, any new nuclear is going to be too slow and expensive to implement to do any good (compared to putting the same investment towards continuing to ramp up renewables).
Don’t get me wrong: in general, I like nuclear and think it was a mistake to capitulate to the activists’ overblown fears decades ago and pivot away from it, especially at the cost of increasing fossil fuel use. It’s just that my experience of Plant Vogtle, as a Georgia Power ratepayer, has convinced me that we in the US are too incompetent and/or corrupt to build it in a timely or cost-effective fashion.
Unless they’re talking about reopening an existing reactor, any new nuclear is going to be too slow and expensive to implement to do any good (compared to putting the same investment towards continuing to ramp up renewables).
Don’t get me wrong: in general, I like nuclear and think it was a mistake to capitulate to the activists’ overblown fears decades ago and pivot away from it, especially at the cost of increasing fossil fuel use. It’s just that my experience of Plant Vogtle, as a Georgia Power ratepayer, has convinced me that we in the US are too incompetent and/or corrupt to build it in a timely or cost-effective fashion.