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New Nuke in Georgia is preparing to go online

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Vogtle is the only nuclear plant under construction in the United States. Its costs and delays could deter other utilities from building such plants, even though they generate electricity without releasing climate-changing carbon emissions.
 
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Good. Nuclear energy is the only logical bridge to get us to a green energy world. It’s ridiculous we moved away from it.
Nuclear reactors have all sorts is issues besides environmentalism.

Reactors are billion dollar products that aren’t guaranteed to work.

Insuring reactors in any real sense is almost impossible.

There are only a few companies that design and manufacture reactors and they’re all on the verge of bankruptcy, so there’s no guarantee they will finish projects.
 
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Nuclear reactors have all sorts is issues besides environmentalism.

Reactors are billion dollar products that aren’t guaranteed to work.

Insuring reactors in any real sense is almost impossible.

There are only a few companies that design and manufacture reactors and they’re all on the verge of bankruptcy, so there’s no guarantee they will finish projects.
A third and a fourth reactor were approved for construction at Vogtle by the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2012, and the third reactor was supposed to start generating power in 2016. Now, the schedule calls for that to happen by the end of March 2023. The cost of the third and fourth reactors has climbed from an original cost of $14 billion to more than $30 billion.
Georgia Power customers are already paying part of the financing cost and state regulators have approved a monthly rate increase of $3.78 a month as soon as the third unit begins generating power. But the Georgia Public Service Commission will decide later who pays for the remainder of the costs.

The milestone comes as the other owners of Vogtle seek to shift costs onto Georgia Power. Both Oglethorpe and MEAG sued Georgia Power in June, claiming the company was trying to bilk them out of nearly $700 million by unilaterally changing a contract.
 
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10 year training and college was required for a job in those facilities, and now finally going to open.
 
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