The SCANA Plant was the 4th and 5th nuke plants at Jenkinsville. VC Summer was one of 3 planed. Only 1 finished. The other 2: 1 had over $250 million in foundations covered up. The other had all engineering lost. So, SCANA was really 1 out of 5 in finishing Nuke plants. But, there is a 6th one too: PARR. The 1950s research plant in SC. It was finished, used for testing, but never put on the grid.
All of these nuke failures came after many successes across the nation. FPL, Duke, etc. all finished nukes on time and under budget in the past. It’s poor planning, rotten project controls and awful Political BS that kills these plants. Exactly, when we need them the most. The BS world dream of the Globalist: “Human Caused Global Warming Lie,” “Green Energy Lies,” all depend on electricity. WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OF, AND NEVER WILL, AS LONG AS THE IDIOTS IN DC KEEP PUTTING POLITICS IN FRONT OF REAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES.
I totally agree. In addition, on a broader level, an entire generation of experienced nuclear engineers, construction contractor project managers and plant operators who worked from the 1970s into the early 2000s (such as my own father) have aged out and retired from the workforce, leaving a critical gap in the continuation of practical know-how because there were not enough people to enter the field – which seemed to be stagnating because of the federal government’s failure to allow new plants to be built. Our government massively overreacted to the Fukashima event while others used it as a tool to sandbag new projects. I will never understand the hard left environmentalists who see the virtually zero emissions nuclear power option as a threat to the environment. I think the dinosaurs in their ranks keep throwing around the Three Mile Island incident….nothing that has been built in the last 30 years has any vulnerabilities along the lines of that event…it is a nonissue.
And SCANA units 4 and 5 were mirror images of Vogtle 3 and 4. So what was the MAIN difference between being built and being abandoned as were SCANA unit 2 and 3.
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The SCANA Plant was the 4th and 5th nuke plants at Jenkinsville. VC Summer was one of 3 planed. Only 1 finished. The other 2: 1 had over $250 million in foundations covered up. The other had all engineering lost. So, SCANA was really 1 out of 5 in finishing Nuke plants. But, there is a 6th one too: PARR. The 1950s research plant in SC. It was finished, used for testing, but never put on the grid.
All of these nuke failures came after many successes across the nation. FPL, Duke, etc. all finished nukes on time and under budget in the past. It’s poor planning, rotten project controls and awful Political BS that kills these plants. Exactly, when we need them the most. The BS world dream of the Globalist: “Human Caused Global Warming Lie,” “Green Energy Lies,” all depend on electricity. WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OF, AND NEVER WILL, AS LONG AS THE IDIOTS IN DC KEEP PUTTING POLITICS IN FRONT OF REAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES.
I totally agree. In addition, on a broader level, an entire generation of experienced nuclear engineers, construction contractor project managers and plant operators who worked from the 1970s into the early 2000s (such as my own father) have aged out and retired from the workforce, leaving a critical gap in the continuation of practical know-how because there were not enough people to enter the field – which seemed to be stagnating because of the federal government’s failure to allow new plants to be built. Our government massively overreacted to the Fukashima event while others used it as a tool to sandbag new projects. I will never understand the hard left environmentalists who see the virtually zero emissions nuclear power option as a threat to the environment. I think the dinosaurs in their ranks keep throwing around the Three Mile Island incident….nothing that has been built in the last 30 years has any vulnerabilities along the lines of that event…it is a nonissue.
And SCANA units 4 and 5 were mirror images of Vogtle 3 and 4. So what was the MAIN difference between being built and being abandoned as were SCANA unit 2 and 3.