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In reply to the discussion: Georgia nuclear plant's cost now forecast to top $30 billion [View all]speak easy
(9,189 posts)10,000 turbines installed in what 2+ years? The United States produces 1.5+ million cars every month . Your point is?
"haul them away 20 years from now"? Modern turbines have modular bearing / generator subsystems.
" trashing huge stretches of wilderness, rendering them into industrial parks " - they will be going off shore.
Does that mean I am against nuclear power? Absolutely not. It is a crime that misinformation and ideology brought construction to a standstill in the 80s and onwards. But that does not mean one employs the same sort of stuff to trash the competition.
And it is true that there have been considerable cost / time overruns in new reactors in France and England. I suspect that is because it has been some time since new reactors have been constructed.
Anyway, proponents of nuclear power have every right to be bitter. Look what happened in Germany for example.