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our local energy company jacked our rates up for a decade to add another reactor to our plant only to back out and have it be one of the biggest scandals in the states recent history, westinghouse high ups were arrested and everything pretty neat shit, they said they would pay us back but you can probably guess how that went.
Check out Site C dam in BC if you want to see an even worse power generation-related debacle. This kind of thing isn't exclusive to NPP construction projects.
The AP-1000's at Vogtle (similar to VC Summer) are also massively over-budget, but somehow the cost per MWh generated is still lower by some insane factor than that hydroelectric project.
shit like that is so crazy, to think that back during the depression when the feds were creating lakes all across the southeast for hydro power and just completely ignored complaints about people who didnt want their towns to be underwater. my great grandfather was paid some hilariously small amount of money for 30 something acres of farmland and they all knew better than to complain.
Yeah, I'm not really up to date on what factors were involved there. IIRC it's some combination of inexperience and poor dam siting (but all the best locations for building hydro dams in the area are already taken anyway).
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our local energy company jacked our rates up for a decade to add another reactor to our plant only to back out and have it be one of the biggest scandals in the states recent history, westinghouse high ups were arrested and everything pretty neat shit, they said they would pay us back but you can probably guess how that went.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegate_scandal
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Check out Site C dam in BC if you want to see an even worse power generation-related debacle. This kind of thing isn't exclusive to NPP construction projects. The AP-1000's at Vogtle (similar to VC Summer) are also massively over-budget, but somehow the cost per MWh generated is still lower by some insane factor than that hydroelectric project.
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shit like that is so crazy, to think that back during the depression when the feds were creating lakes all across the southeast for hydro power and just completely ignored complaints about people who didnt want their towns to be underwater. my great grandfather was paid some hilariously small amount of money for 30 something acres of farmland and they all knew better than to complain.
i do be fishing at that lake tho
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Yeah, I'm not really up to date on what factors were involved there. IIRC it's some combination of inexperience and poor dam siting (but all the best locations for building hydro dams in the area are already taken anyway).
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