Good news. Anything but fossil fuels at this point.

Ooh a lot of people here seem very pro-nuclear-power. That's cool!

About damn time! As a Georgia Power ratepayer, I've only already been paying extra for it for what, around a decade now?

Whoa. Finally a state in the US that isn’t doing something completely ass backwards. We need more of this.

I highly, highly recommend the Oliver Stone documentary Nuclear Now from earlier this year. Completely changed my perspective. I had no idea that the oil industry was behind so much of the fear mongering around nuclear.

Oh, neat. My state did something not completely stupid. I've got some reservations about nuke power as opposed to renewable, but this is definitely better than continuing fossil fuels.

Oh wow really? Hope it kicks off some good news for other plants in the future.

Yeah, after literally bankrupting Westinghouse and costing us Georgians billions of dollars. I'm all for more nuclear power but this project was a colossal shitshow.

Georgia also has some shiny new solar factories so I'm interested to see how deep into renewables we can get in the next decade.

14 years and 35 billion (combined with #4 which has not been finished) and didn't generate a single kWh in anger until now. Put the same investment into renewables and it would generate similar or greater energy and would start doing so within a year.

The argument against nuclear now is not about safety. It is about money. Nuclear simply cannot compete without massive subsidies.

“If you wish to make a nuclear reactor from scratch, you must first invent the universe”

Just in time for openheimer in IMAX!

Very good news. Nuclear power simply has way more benefits over fossil fuels. Not to mention it's statistically safer, despite what decades of anti-nuclear sentiment has taught the public.

what does built "from scratch" mean? Just a more emphatic way of saying "built?" Or that it wasn't repurposed out of some already built building?

I'm all for investing in other forms of energy beyond fossil fuels, this is good news to me.

I'm just stoked that lemmy as a whole and I agree on. Go team.

Hey wow, it's great to see we are still persuing this avenue for energy, I hate how stigmatized nuclear became (with some good reasons). Like any technology, we just rushed to using it without understanding the full consequences when shit goes wrong. Hopefully we're better prepared now.