Reality is cruel....
Here is the outcome to date, of the first attempt of a U.S. electrical generation, privately owned utility corp. to build the first new nuclear power generating plants in the U.S. since the 1970's , on an existing, longtime operating nuclear power generating site it already owned. It is not an attractive outcome, so far, and the issues of permanent waste disposal and longterm security are far from solved.
In fact, it is a horror show for rate payers, the losses have been partially socialized, forced on this utility's customers instead of being entirely absorbed by the private investors who already receive an above average, guaranteed return on all of their other investment in this corp.'s electrical generation ops.
The project is running six years behind schedule and estimated costs have nearly doubled. Go ahead and gamble that this is about stupid Americans
with no clue how to leverage their long experience building and operating the same technology at this same location.:
en.wikipedia.org
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"Two additional units utilizing
Westinghouse AP1000 reactors are under construction.
[10] Natural-draft type cooling towers were also selected, and the two new cooling towers are nearly 600 ft (180 m) tall. The units have suffered several delays and cost overruns. The certified construction & capital costs incurred by
Georgia Power for these two new units
were originally $14 billion, according to the Seventeenth Semi-annual Vogtle Construction Monitoring Report in 2017.
[11] This last report blames the latest increase of costs on the contractor not completing work as scheduled. Another complicating factor in the construction process is the bankruptcy of Westinghouse in 2017.
[12] In 2018 costs were estimated to be about $25 billion.[3] Upon completion of Units 3 and 4 in 2021, Vogtle will become the largest nuclear power station in the United States.
[13] ...."