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[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by VitaBene

Seabrook's reactor is approx 1200 MW/h so it can support close to a million homes. Transmission lines would be needed if they had built Seabrook Unit 2 as originally planned.

Nuclear is a solid, carbon free power source so we need to have it as part of our US energy strategy at least for the short-term. It is very difficult to bring new units online in the US. Vogtle brought their first Westinghouse AP1000 on line in GA a year or so ago. It can be done but it is pricy!

https://www.georgiapower.com/company/plant-vogtle.html

We can't expect that the residents of Seabrook and the surrounding area, fairly densely populated, would put up with the new build out since we allowed the residents of sparsely populated Coos and Grafton county to not have to deal with the transmission lines.

So it really isn't about the price... it is about the NIMBY politics.

Since we have to deal with the current infrastructure and only small changes (don't even try to trim a tree near the lines)... the strategy is to use the current infrastructure more efficiently.