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Originally Posted by epitome
Nobody will invest in that though. Not even the companies that already own them.
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Companies want to invest in them. Hyperion invested 10 billion dollars to build one in South Dakota which is expected to bring tons of jobs and over 13 billion a year into the local economy
The problem isn't companies...it's the govt.
Environmental protestors say that oil refineries "don't make good neighbors" (I swear I just read that lol). And to get local govt.'s to approve them has been impossible.
The oil refinery in South Dakota will be the FIRST new refinery built in the U.S. since 1976!!!
It's the same thing with trying to build nuclear plants to generate electricity.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission just approved the first license for a nuclear reactor in the U.S. since 1978!!!
And we wonder why we are behind the rest of the world in nuclear power?
Come to think of it...what exactly does the Nuclear Regulatory Commission do to earn their salaries if they haven't licensed a single nuclear reactor since the 1970's?
