Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time

Re:Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time by js2 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:59PM (#35061865)

> Has the US successfully built anything big or hard in a generation or two? High speed rail? Subways? Tunnels? Mass transportation? Housing? Any infrastructure, really?

Two generations is 40-60 years, so has the U.S. built anything big or hard since 1963? And I only have to name a single thing as an existence proof? I think I can! :-)

Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969. Since then, the Space Shuttle, Skylab, the ISS, various missions to Mars including as I recall, a helicopter. Hubble. James Webb Space Telescope. Does SpaceX building re-usable rockets count?

And for something more recent: how about Operation Warp Speed. Does not building a vaccine for a novel virus count?

Does the Boeing 747, introduced in 1970 count? How about the F-22? The MIM-104 Patriot?

Did you mean only infrastructure projects in the last 20 years, so since 2003? The Big Dig opened in 2003. Here's some other random projects I found completed since 2003:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi%27s_Stadium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River_Bridges_Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Regis_Chicago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Technology_Center

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Re:Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time by adamsmith143 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:25PM (#35062128)

Your examples are either Military projects or Buildings? FYI they're building Fighter Jets and Stadiums and Skyscrapers all over the world. Nothing majorly impressive about that.

Really complex things we completely fail at, Nuclear power plants take decades longer than intended. California's High Speed rail is billions of dollars over budget and many years behind schedule and may never finish.

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