> The problem is a lot of the tech advancements in the last 30 years of the field have not had a chance to play out and instead retrofits are all that's been ro

> The problem is a lot of the tech advancements in the last 30 years of the field have not had a chance to play out and instead retrofits are all that's been rolled out to the existing fleet. Criticizing an entire field based on the cutting edge 60 years ago feels really unfair. AP1000 is a new reactor design from the 2000s. Vogtle 3 and 4 are AP1000 reactors. The construction was started in 2013 and should have taken four years and costed 14.3 billion usd, but now it seems those reactors won't come online until 2022 to the cost of 27 billion usd. Lest anyone thinks that is because Americans are bad at building nuclear power, many other projects around the wold suffers from exactly the same cost and time overruns. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/new-plants/ap1000-pwr/overview http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/new-plants/ap1000-pwr/ove... https://www.utilitydive.com/news/southern-increases-vogtle-nuke-pricetag-by-11-billion/529682/ https://www.utilitydive.com/news/southern-increases-vogtle-n... https://theecologist.org/2014/sep/19/three-every-four-nuclear-power-builds-worldwide-are-running-late https://theecologist.org/2014/sep/19/three-every-four-nuclea...