!ifrickinglovescience !physics just wanted to share pics from the 3 nuclear Power Plants operating in South America.
Pic on the post is from the Admiral Álvaro Alberto Nuclear Power Plant, located in Angra dos Reis, state of Rio de Janeiro.
It is composed of 3 reactors (Angra 1, Angra 2 and Angra 3) of which only 2 are operational and the third in "construction".
Angra 1 is a pressurized water reactor (PWR) designed by Westinghouse under an agreement with the Brazilian government, construction began in 1972 and it was opened in 1982, it has the capacity for 657 MW. However in 1974 after the sexy Indian dudes first tested their nukes, the US government decided to cut their nuclear agreement with Brazil as the yanks thought the Military Regime would eventually develop nukes. So President Ernesto Geisel looked elsewhere and signed a deal with West Germany for the construction of a second reactor, Angra 2. The drama involving Angra 3 actually deserves a @kaamrev style effortpost.
Agra 2 began operations in 2001, it was designed by Siemens and has an installed capacity of 1350MW.
Angra 3 construction began in 1984 but it was paralyzed in 1986. Construction resumed in 2010 and stopped again in 2015 after leaks of the Lava Jato operation showed contractors bribing politicians and over-spending to increase profit margins. The reactor is 70% completed and now the government intends to finish it this decade 
The other two nuclear power plants in South America are located in Argentina.
First pic is from the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, located in the Buenos Aires province.
Built in the 1970s, it consists of 2 reactors, Atucha I and Atucha II (362 and 745 MW respectively). Both of them are Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR).
The second one is the Embalse Nuclear Power Plant, a single reactor plant, also a PHWR, 635 MW. Located in the Córdoba province. Construction started in 1974 and began operations in 1983.
Pics from Angra 3
Construction
And of it's current incomplete state
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Is that for tax reasons? I've noticed in Mexico and other great (lesser) countries of the !americas 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.
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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.
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A few decades? That's insane. Their $ per megawatt per hour sharply rose from the 60s or 70s when that nuclear agency went full r-slur. South Korea is still one of the cheapest countries for producing nuclear reactors and has great enough regulations. Bureaucrats can't help themselves since the path toward promotion is enacting new policies regardless of their externalized costs.
It's funny how much a lot of economists gripe about public goods problems in the market while ignoring those from government.
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no comrade, we only wish to do things safely and in order with the rules. if that means people pay 20x as much for their power, and it comes 50 years after the project was proposed, that is merely the price of progress!
https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-power-georgia-vogtle-reactors-8fbf41a3e04c656002a6ee8203988fad
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It's like that in southern Europe too
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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.
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W-What if we kissed in the abandoned cooling tower?
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That power plant doesn't have any cooling towers sweety. Angra uses sea water for cooling.
Same with Atucha using the Paraná river.
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!metashit, I have been rejected by
@nuclearshill.
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BOMBA
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Means "pump"
!linguistics
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Tsar bomba is king pump.
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It means both pump and bomb in
it also refers to steroids in vulgar language
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But every nuclear plant needs lots of water.
Like Trojan used the Columbia River but it still had cooling towers.
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Probably because of environmental regulations. If you dump heated water you'll raise the temperature and affect local river/marine life.
Chernobyl and Fukushima didn't have cooling towers neither. They used the Pripyat river and the sea respectively.
The Diablo nuclear power plant in California is in the coast and doesn't have cooling towers either.
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I gotta go kayaking on the Tualatin again sometime. You're in the middle of a bunch of cities but you wouldn't even know it.
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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.
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h-h-how expensive c-c-can a rebar s-saw be?
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The cheapest electrical ones are around 600-800 R$, good ones cost 1500-2000 R$. But that's not why they don't finish. They don't pay the contractors to do the work well and leave it when it's "good enough" for them.
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but can't t-t-they just do it? is 600 a lot?? btw i'm thinking of h-hacksaws
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The minimum wage is 1400R$ but wagies are rentcels.
That's why I called them "relaxados" (lazy).
That being said, I wouldn't recommend someone who never used an electric saw to play with it to cut reinforcement.
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You can use these ones too. They cost only 100 R$ and cut up to 14mm diameter reinforcement.
Again; they don't do it because they're lazy.
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No way that first one can cut rebar
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i-i-it's hard to imagine. t-thanks for clarity
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Yeah, you pay anyway
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