First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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    1 year ago

    Estimated total cost of decommissioning in the UK is £120bn. But it’s going to take 100 years to do it… so yay lots of rotting radioactive buildings for the next century.

    The nuclear waste storage facility cost 53bn to build, let alone run… so way off your ‘few hundred thousand a year’.