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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 26 2016, @04:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the duke-nukem-forever dept.

Various news outlets report that Unit 2 of the Watts Bar nuclear power plant, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has begun operation. The reactor is rated at 1.15 GW and cost $4.7 billion ($4.09 per watt). Ground was broken on the project in 1973; construction work was suspended from 1985 to 2007.

Watts Bar Unit 1, which began operation in 1996, is one of three plants which manufacture tritium under contract to the U.S. government for use in hydrogen bombs.

Around the United States, 99 other commercial nuclear reactors are in operation and four others are under construction:

[...] Scana Corp./SCE&G's V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 in South Carolina and Southern Co.'s Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Georgia.

In related news, the TVA is taking bids for its unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station in fabulous Hollywood, Alabama. It has received a bid of $38 million.

coverage:

previously:
US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mtrycz on Wednesday October 26 2016, @08:30AM

    by mtrycz (60) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @08:30AM (#418894)

    I agree with this comment (maybe not the wording), but feel humbled to upvote because of groupthink. Is it bad?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Wednesday October 26 2016, @09:00AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @09:00AM (#418897) Journal

    In capitalist America, ads view YOU!

    And:

    I agree with this comment, but feel humbled to upvote because of groupthink.

    There is no try, young paduwan! In Soviet Russia, the group thinks YOU!

    Seriously, no, just go with what you know to be true. Sometimes the groupthink is the truth, sometimes it is not. The only way to be a free person is to know when it does and agree because it is true, not because it is the the hive mind telling you so. And contrairily, knowing unlike the Buzzard of Might that the opposite of the think of group is not always the way of right. Wing. Right wing, that is. Could be wrong. Thinking in a group, with Jesus!! and the Bundy clan and the Angle Moron. Labia Moron, Moloun Sheepers!

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @10:01AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 26 2016, @10:01AM (#418907) Journal

      Group think is roughly equal to mass hysteria, IMHO. When everyone thinks alike, no one is actually thinking.

      Those who think contrary to the group are going to be right at least as often as they are wrong. Hysteria is always wrong. Witness the efforts at gun control.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday October 26 2016, @04:44PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @04:44PM (#419035)

        > Those who think contrary to the group are going to be right at least as often as they are wrong.

        So you mean that the individual brain is as good as a group of brains... When did your boss start inviting me to his meetings?

        > Hysteria is always wrong. Witness the efforts at gun control.

        Thanks for using a period, but you could have used a semicolon. The hysteria of the people clinging to a free gun market (and rushing to buy more) every time you hit them in the face with evidence that better regulation is a necessary inconvenience, that's pretty wrong.

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 26 2016, @05:36PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @05:36PM (#419066) Journal

        Those who think contrary to the group are going to be right at least as often as they are wrong.
         
        Unless they aren't. This is known as the balance fallacy.

        The balance fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs when two sides of an argument are assumed to have equal or comparable value regardless of their respective merits
         
        Like, for example, if the larger group were to base their opinion on science and a massive accumulation of supporting evidence.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @09:37PM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 26 2016, @09:37PM (#419160) Journal

          Uhhhhh - group think has nothing to do with science. Or, only in so far as a scientist sometimes gets included in the group for one reason or another. You DO realize that scientists are subject to emotions, scientists are subject to injustices, and scientists can be brainwashed and/or influenced by those around them. Scientists are human, so sometimes, they join in the groupthink. But, it has nothing to do with science.

          When science does influence the thinking of a group of people, that is called a consensus of opinion, or some such.

    • (Score: 1) by charon on Thursday October 27 2016, @01:56AM

      by charon (5660) on Thursday October 27 2016, @01:56AM (#419242) Journal
      Even when I completely get aristarchus, I still have no clue what he's saying.
      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:52AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:52AM (#419286) Journal

        Well, pro tip, look up the half-life of tritium. Has nothing to do with the point I was making. But still, military-industrial complex is the motive force behind nuclear power. And any time Charon, the ferryman to the underworld, does not understand what I am saying . . . hey! Could this be why I haven't died yet? Gosh, I hope this doesn't get out, because if I start making sense . . . .

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 26 2016, @10:35AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday October 26 2016, @10:35AM (#418914) Homepage Journal

    You made a good decision. He's just trolling in favor of groupthink.

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    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday October 26 2016, @07:55PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @07:55PM (#419118) Journal

      I think that what you think groupthink is, is not what groupthink actually is, even though you keep using that word.

      • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Friday October 28 2016, @07:55AM

        by mtrycz (60) on Friday October 28 2016, @07:55AM (#419765)

        Oh hey, this thread is still alive :)

        What I actually wanted to imply was that my perception is that Soylent's median opinion on nuclear, is that "it's good and necessary: the benefits outweigh".

        (But maybe it's the groupthink on the green site, and not actually Soylent, which being more popular has more shills among sincere supporters?

        Anyway, I thought that your post was controversial and against the popular opinion here, and was dubious about upvoting it, that's all.

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