After taking a whopping 42 years to build and finally bring on line its Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear power reactor in Tennessee, TVA just broke its own record for longest nuclear plant construction time. However, this time, the company failed to deliver a completed nuclear plant.
There were NO NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS in the USA from 1996 to 2016. Twenty fucking years not a single one.
47 years since beginning construction, another Nuclear Power Plant gets ABANDONED in Alabama having NEVER become active and operational.
Now, almost five years later, TVA has announced it has abandoned its unfinished two-reactor Bellefonte nuclear plant in Alabama, a breathtaking 47 years after construction began.
Taxpayers in South Carolina got fucked. They were charged $9 billion through taxes, fees in their utility bills, etc. to get a nuclear power plant. $9 billion later it was abandoned.
17 Nuclear Projects FAILED and were CANCELED in the USA since the year 2012 costing BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars flushed down the drain.
Nuclear power plants are not stupid. But Americans are too stupid to build them.
Is that because it can't be done, or because commies, politicians, special interest groups, and other general shitheels get in the way of doing things?
Edit: I see for the SC project, it was a government funded project. Anything government funded is destined for failure. That's why the free market exists, because when your money is on the line, you spend it wisely. Government projects are just a get-rich-quick scheme for scumbags. The Big Dig in MA, CA High Speed Rail, and this SC nuclear plant as examples.
The lesson to learn isn't that nuclear can't be done. It's that the entire government in the US from federal to city, is corrupt and needs to be abolished and start from scratch.
I think our universities and colleges are just scams these days. The knowledge and expertise, brilliant physicists, are gone.
Now we just have shills recycling shit in textbooks unable to understand the formulas they memorize. Highly paid frauds in Academia.
As you can see from the failed projects, we are still capable of digging holes and pouring concrete. We just can't get a nuclear reactor up and running. That's when the contractor abandons the job site, takes the money and runs.
"The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections. Meanwhile, the population exploded, and intelligence continued to decline until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems."
they know how to build them. the media and other LOW iq mental midgets scared the SHIT out of people on "the dangers of nuclear power" and now everyone thinks nuclear power plants are like a hiroshima waiting to happen. it's fucking insane just how DUMB people really are
I have to ask, what issue do you want solved? I’m pro nuclear power myself and would love to see more of it used instead of coal which is a finite resources and dirty to boot. If we had worked on nuclear tech maybe we could have a scaled down generator for an EV power source as an option instead of an overgrown cell phone battery.
New nuclear plants are stupid? They're the only answer that makes sense.
No one in the USA really knows how to build them.
It takes 40+ years to build one and it costs tens of billions of dollars. And often times the projects get abandoned.
The Record-Breaking Failures of Nuclear Power https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/24/the-record-breaking-failures-of-nuclear-power/
There were NO NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS in the USA from 1996 to 2016. Twenty fucking years not a single one.
47 years since beginning construction, another Nuclear Power Plant gets ABANDONED in Alabama having NEVER become active and operational.
Taxpayers in South Carolina got fucked. They were charged $9 billion through taxes, fees in their utility bills, etc. to get a nuclear power plant. $9 billion later it was abandoned.
SOUTH CAROLINA SPENT $9 BILLION TO DIG A HOLE IN THE GROUND AND THEN FILL IT BACK IN https://theintercept.com/2019/02/06/south-caroline-green-new-deal-south-carolina-nuclear-energy/
List of Cancelled Nuclear Reactors in the USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancelled_nuclear_reactors_in_the_United_States
17 Nuclear Projects FAILED and were CANCELED in the USA since the year 2012 costing BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars flushed down the drain.
Nuclear power plants are not stupid. But Americans are too stupid to build them.
Is that because it can't be done, or because commies, politicians, special interest groups, and other general shitheels get in the way of doing things?
Edit: I see for the SC project, it was a government funded project. Anything government funded is destined for failure. That's why the free market exists, because when your money is on the line, you spend it wisely. Government projects are just a get-rich-quick scheme for scumbags. The Big Dig in MA, CA High Speed Rail, and this SC nuclear plant as examples.
The lesson to learn isn't that nuclear can't be done. It's that the entire government in the US from federal to city, is corrupt and needs to be abolished and start from scratch.
I think our universities and colleges are just scams these days. The knowledge and expertise, brilliant physicists, are gone.
Now we just have shills recycling shit in textbooks unable to understand the formulas they memorize. Highly paid frauds in Academia.
As you can see from the failed projects, we are still capable of digging holes and pouring concrete. We just can't get a nuclear reactor up and running. That's when the contractor abandons the job site, takes the money and runs.
Idiocracy
"The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections. Meanwhile, the population exploded, and intelligence continued to decline until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems."
they know how to build them. the media and other LOW iq mental midgets scared the SHIT out of people on "the dangers of nuclear power" and now everyone thinks nuclear power plants are like a hiroshima waiting to happen. it's fucking insane just how DUMB people really are
Please expand on that thought. What issue needs solving? And how would nuclear R&D get in the way of it?
I have to ask, what issue do you want solved? I’m pro nuclear power myself and would love to see more of it used instead of coal which is a finite resources and dirty to boot. If we had worked on nuclear tech maybe we could have a scaled down generator for an EV power source as an option instead of an overgrown cell phone battery.
Hindsight is always 20-20. If I could get into federal office first action is to suspend all foreign aid.