In 2008, the government of the U.K. stated that nuclear energy needed to be a part of their mix of future sources of energy. However, the government made it very clear that they would not be financing nuclear power and that any new nuclear projects would have to financed entirely by non-governmental investors.
The Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility is a factory in Columbia, South Carolina where nuclear fuel rods are manufactured for commercial nuclear power plants. The forty seven year old plant is owned and operated by Westinghouse. The facility occupies over half a million square feet and employs one thousand workers.
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was a nuclear power plant located near San Diego, California. It went operational in 1968, providing over two gigawatts of power to the grid. It was operated by Southern California Edison.
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As if the United Kingdom didn't have enough nuclear woes with the reconsideration of the mammoth Hinkley Point C nuclear project following the Brexit vote, now a British court has handed down a ruling against the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority that could result in multi-million dollar lawsuits with respect to the decommissioning of old UK reactors.
The Bellefonte Nuclear Generation Station is located in Hollywood, Alabama and is owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Originally, four reactors were planned. Unit One had reached eighty eight percent completion and Unit Two had reached fifty eight percent completion by 1988 when the TVA board suspended the project. The TVA spent over six billion dollars before work was stopped.
I have blogged about China's ambitions to be a major exporter of nuclear reactors. They have an ambitious construction program for domestic nuclear reactors with twenty two currently under construction and they hope to sell their reactors to other countries.
