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inb4 that South Carolina plant ends up turning into a scam that costs the tax payers billions (again)
by m4ck_ 10mo ago
inb4 that South Carolina plant ends up turning into a scam that costs the tax payers billions (again)
- ProllyInfamous 10mo agoHowdy neighbor, from a customer of Tennessee Valley Authority (primary generators are hydro and nuclear, with natgas peakers). For some reason TVA keeps building new nuclear sites, never commissioning them, and then selling them at huge losses to private investors (or destroying them). Recently TVA got approval for µfission reactors to be installed... here we go again. [•] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellefonte_Nuclear_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellefonte_Nuclear_Plant> $4B, estimated loss Suggested (hopefully not Enron-esque) reading: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Failure-Rise-Fall-American/dp/0593084160/ https://www.amazon.com/Power-Failure-Rise-Fall-American/dp/0...