Nuclear Power Plants of South America

Kubrickesque

I went there in fallout 4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

On September 16, Roberto punctured the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.

On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder.

On September 21, at the scrapyard, one of Ferreira's friends (identified as "EF1" in the IAEA report) freed several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the capsule using a screwdriver. Ferreira began to share some of them with various friends and family members. That same day, his wife, 37-year-old Maria Gabriela Ferreira, began to fall ill. On September 25, 1987, Devair Ferreira sold the scrap metal to a third scrapyard.

The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg sandwich while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. The egg sandwich was also exposed to dust from the powder; Leide absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, a fatal dose for which medical intervention was ineffective

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It's like that in southern Europe too

No, it's because there wasn't any money for two reactors back in the 80's (the dictatorship just ended and Brazil was going through an inflationary crisis), that's why Angra 3 was stopped and resumed in 2010. Delays in construction make in more expensive as you keep paying the contractors and paralyzing construction means you have to pay fines. Angra 3 stopped in 2015 only because the contractors were being investigated, that's a huge contract breach.

The plant is not private btw, it's owned by Eletronuclear, a subsidiary of Eletrobras which is a mixed company (51% is owned by the Federal Government and 49% by private investors).

Edit: the Federal Government owns 46.6% of Eletrobras.

that they don't finish the construction of a house to avoid taxes. It's why so many cinderblock hovels have rebar sticking out at the top.

I also wanna ad that in Brazil you will pay a real estate tax regardless of how "finished" your house is. It's called IPTU but there are also other taxes as Brazil has an over complicated taxing system as our legal advisor @BrasilIguana can attest.

Leaving the rebar sticking is a poorcel thing because they couldn't afford finishing it. It's also a quite irresponsible and "relaxado" thing considering people (particularly kids playing around) can get hurt with uncovered reinforcement.

in USA specifically, reactors can take a few decades to produce, due to spiraling costs, environmentalist whacko advocacy, and bureaucratic red tape. Maybe its just actually in construction.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Same thing happened in the Philippines with the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Corruption, huge cost overruns, Marcos got overthrown, canceled half way through construction. Recently they considered finishing it but it's been so long the half-completed part is worthless now.

I'd say letting the economic terrorists win that block these projects also has a cost, but at that point they already won handily

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Small reactors like CAREM are the most approachable way nowadays. Large reactors are simply too expensive.