Shoreham was a project with a lot of potential and a terrible outcome. Specifically, it was a nuclear plant on Long Island. It was a nuclear project that could

Shoreham was a project with a lot of potential and a terrible outcome. Specifically, it was a nuclear plant on Long Island. It was a nuclear project that could actually pay for itself, even with the increased costs and safety concerns of the late 1980s. Long Island is literally an island. Power generation costs are currently insane, and have always been insane, because it's expensive to move fuel onto the island. Nuclear really made sense, economically. (It's much cheaper to move fuel rods across the sound than to do the same with liquified gas.) Because Long Island is also 100% completely impossible to evacuate in the event of a Fukushima-grade accident, NIMBYs killed the project. Unfortunately the project was killed after it was constructed. The entire construction cost is still being paid by electrical consumers today, decades later. It never served a single hour in revenue service.