The long-anticipated “nuclear renaissance” in the United States (appears) to have stalled as well, with only four reactors currently being built, two in Georgia and two in South Carolina.
T.V.A. planners said they were (expecting)continued growth in their service territory of nine million people across seven states. That, and the agency’s plans to retire or idle about 2,700 (megawatts) of coal-fired power plants helped inform the decision. Equipping those coal-fired (generators) with the antipollution equipment that the government will soon require would be more expensive, they said, than building a plant from (scratch)or finishing Bellefonte, which will have a capacity of 1,260 megawatts. The board took an unusual step to try to prevent the agency from getting mired in its former nuclear (ambitions), as occurred in the 1980s when the T.V.A. set out to build 17 reactors but finished only 5.