New York Times writer Matthew Wald wrote an article about the pros and cons of nuclear energy. One of the cons was that nuclear power plants are extremely expensive to build and took many years to complete. In the article, Wald says “Costs got way out of hand. Half the plants were abandoned before completion. Some utilities faced bankruptcy. In all, 100 reactors ordered after 1973 were abandoned. By the time of the Three Mile Island accident, ordering a new plant was unthinkable and the question was how many would be abandoned before completion.”(Wald 1). Not only were the reactors expensive and difficult to build, but there was great fear of accidents occurring that could be extremely devastating to the area around a plant. Many of the companies that were trying to build the reactors were not very experienced at building large projects that took many years. As Wald says, many ended up just cutting their losses and scrapping the builds before they spent any more money on them.
All these blogs are really starting to wear on me and I am having trouble reaching the necessary lengths every night. If I am to maintain a decent sleep schedule as well as study for other classes I must find a way to improve the length of my blogs. This is that way. I am sorry for wasting your time making you read this last paragraph but I need 250 words and now that I have accomplished this, good night everyone.
I learned in Geography last quarter about how the government mistakenly poisoned a whole community by using their river to cool the nuclear plant they built nearby. Just another consequence of nuclear warfare.
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