AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement

Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by m4ck_ on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:15AM (#46255094)

inb4 that South Carolina plant ends up turning into a scam that costs the tax payers billions (again)

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by ProllyInfamous on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:10AM (#46255579)

Howdy neighbor, from a customer of Tennessee Valley Authority (primary generators are hydro and nuclear, with natgas peakers).

For some reason TVA keeps building new nuclear sites, never commissioning them, and then selling them at huge losses to private investors (or destroying them). Recently TVA got approval for µfission reactors to be installed... here we go again.

[•] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellefonte_Nuclear_Plant> $4B, estimated loss

Suggested (hopefully not Enron-esque) reading: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Failure-Rise-Fall-American/dp/0...

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