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BY HARVEY WASSERMAN 26 Apr 24 For the first time since 1954, no large new atomic reactors are under construction or on order in the United States. On March 1, 2024, Vogtle Unit 4 connected to the Georgia grid …years behind schedule and billions over budget.   Once hyped as “too cheap to meter,” America’s last large light-water…

And while all four groups considered dual-purpose reactors to be technically feasible, they all agreed that: “no reactor could be constructed in the very near future which would be economic on the basis of power generation alone.”  Uneconomic, then, and still today. Early reactors were primarily intended as producers of plutonium By Linda Pentz Gunter, https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2023/10/29/atoms-for-peace-was-never-the-plan/--…

#nuclear #antinuclear #nuclear-free #NoNukes The Commission concluded that: “Nuclear fuels, for various technical reasons, are unlikely ever to bear more than about one-fifth of the load. We must look to solar energy.” Instead, Truman’s presidency ended in January 1953, and the next president, Dwight Eisenhower, effectively tossed the Paley Commission report in the bin. It…