To slow climate change, the US needs to address nuclear power's dismal economics
- Written by Tim Profeta, Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Associate Professor of Practice, Duke University
Construction at Plant Vogtle, Georgia, Dec. 1, 2014.USNRC, CC BY
In late December 2017, the Georgia Public Service Commission faced a major decision: whether to cancel construction of two nuclear power reactors at Plant Vogtle, near Waynesboro, which had been plagued by delays and escalating costs.
Earlier in the year, utilities in South Carolina ab...
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