https://www.yahoo.com/news/second-nuclear-reactor-completed-georgia-155053569.html Each of the two new reactors can power 500,000 homes and businesses without releasing any carbon. ATLANTA (AP) — The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation, capping a project that cost billions more and took years longer than originally projected. Georgia Power Co. and fellow owners announced the milestone Monday for Plant Vogtle's Unit 4, which joins an earlier new reactor southeast of Augusta in splitting atoms to make carbon-free electricity. Unit 3 began commercial operation last summer, joining two older reactors that have stood on the site for decades. They're the first two nuclear reactors built in the United States in decades.
Why ? Wouldnt you prefer to rely on fuel from other nations capable of adjusting prices according to their requirements and needs and not ours ?
I was literally at risk of harm from Chornobyl fallout (along with millions of people in that general region), and I still agree with you. Available, reliable (unless you misuse it), zero-carbon.
I thought that the real "sticky wicket" for nuclear power is the quandary as to what to do with the nuclear waste?
If only every energy producing industry were held responsible for all of its waste product! Anyway, for the most part what we call waste can be recycled for reuse as conventional uranium fuel rods. But another good reason to develop commercial TMSRs is that it can use the fissile material in used fuel rods as a primer. There's not very much that really has to end up in a deep hole in a geologically stable area. Although, that's what you do with anything that is dangerous and really can't be reprocessed, and that's far better than a bunch of garbage in the air.
