Amazing timeline of energy production by source. pic.twitter.com/nw9h38pSiT
— Kevin Stevens 🔋⚡️ (@kevindstevens) August 31, 2021
Imagine a world where the nuke line didn't stall, but sort of carried on with a modest upward velocity. Maybe another 4,000 Terra-watt hours?
That would cover ALL the popular faddish unreliable subsidized renewables. We really only built nuclear powerplants for about 10 years, then stopped for 40. Because of a Jane Fonda film and our subsequent inability to improve the design.
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That we were so spooked by a bad movie should have given us plenty of notice that we would be gobsmack-panicked by a bad flu.
Oh, by the way the NEW Westinghouse AP1000's (Vogtle 3&4) are nearing completion.
Not a "new" design, except for having passive safety (post accident cooling using physics instead of requiring pumps, etc.
Hopefully fuel load for Unit 3 will be this year.
Still building nukes, just much more slowly.
Vogtle will be over 4 Gigawatts of electrical production on one site soon.
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