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Whoever builds nuclear plants because of this, I hope they get more bang for their buck than South Carolina. Years and years of planning and building, $9B spent

Whoever builds nuclear plants because of this, I hope they get more bang for their buck than South Carolina. Years and years of planning and building, $9B spent, only to cancel the project with nothing to show for it. Also as a German resident and tax payer, I'm pretty pissed off that I'm on the hook for about $150B for the disposal of old nuclear waste from nuclear power plants. If this is now a green solution, I hope at least the disposal has to be a part of the business plan, instead of pretending it doesn't exist and dumping it on the public first chance they get.

joelbluminator 5y ago
> I'm pretty pissed off that I'm on the hook for about $150B for the disposal of old nuclear waste Jeez that's a lot! what's your salary?
- disiplus 5y ago
  ~$150B less
rob_c 5y ago
Yes that should have been part of the commissioning plan. But then Germany also killed the plants early meaning any lifetime plans for the material to be slowly removed had to be massively accelerated due to political posturing... But then I forgot Germany built all it's reactors on fault lines and in the path of tornadoes or other natural disaster paths rather than places closer the the rheinland...
abc789654567 5y ago
Bangladesh is building a power plant now and seems to be getting more bang for their buck than South Carolina. Construction began: 30 November 2017 Commission date: 2023 Construction cost: $12.65 billion What today is considered nuclear waste will be fuel for generation IV reactors. The main aspect of Gen IV is using closed fuel cycle for the reactor. This year Russia started building first test Gen IV reactor BREST-300. It is planned to be operational by 2029. I believe that most effective business plan of dumping today's nuclear waste is using it as fuel for Gen IV reactors. Bangladesh Nuclear Power Plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant Generation IV reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor BREST reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)

joelbluminator 5y ago

> I'm pretty pissed off that I'm on the hook for about $150B for the disposal of old nuclear waste Jeez that's a lot! what's your salary?

disiplus 5y ago
~$150B less

rob_c 5y ago

Yes that should have been part of the commissioning plan. But then Germany also killed the plants early meaning any lifetime plans for the material to be slowly removed had to be massively accelerated due to political posturing... But then I forgot Germany built all it's reactors on fault lines and in the path of tornadoes or other natural disaster paths rather than places closer the the rheinland...

abc789654567 5y ago

Bangladesh is building a power plant now and seems to be getting more bang for their buck than South Carolina. Construction began: 30 November 2017 Commission date: 2023 Construction cost: $12.65 billion What today is considered nuclear waste will be fuel for generation IV reactors. The main aspect of Gen IV is using closed fuel cycle for the reactor. This year Russia started building first test Gen IV reactor BREST-300. It is planned to be operational by 2029. I believe that most effective business plan of dumping today's nuclear waste is using it as fuel for Gen IV reactors. Bangladesh Nuclear Power Plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant Generation IV reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor BREST reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)