It's not enough for the DeLorean! Whaaaa.
Nuclear or green energy, it doesn't matter - you will get ripped off and fork out extra billions.
"... both units will finish years behind schedule and billions over initial cost estimates. The main contractor on the units fell into bankruptcy and some of the project’s co-owners have sued Georgia Power over the rising costs."
"Georgia Power ratepayers started paying for the two units in their monthly bills years ago."
"U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) says the country needs to expand its nuclear fleet. The agency supported the Vogtle project with $12 billion in guaranteed loans."
I worked on Westinghouse WDPF-based control systems, they are turnkey for coal and nuke plants.
The redundant data highway kept failing, for years. The second comm channel keeps the plant running though. Every board possible sent in for repair $10,000's spent on RMA's.
One day the data highway (redundant, second channel) went down again and I got pissed off. I did the unthinkable, put an ohmmeter across it and got 75 ohms. Thing is, it's terminated at both ends. So that meant an open circuit.
Anyway, a lot of walking around the plant undoing connectors and taking readings I found the problem was a bad bulkhead connector for the coax data highway.
Most were made in USA but a bunch of made in china parts were in there that did not make a good connection. Shit tolerances, wrong size pins, no gold.
Westinghouse charges premium pricing for all parts on these control systems, as a massive cash cow.
I'm not sure if they changed out all of them or just the dud. Vibration in the room where racks were was fairly high due to data room air conditioning and the coal mills caused regular earthquakes if the coal was hard, as well as generator carbon brush dust all over the boards despite filtration.
Reliability is not really any better IMHO.