The Cost Overruns of Nuclear Plants

A lot of people think that we stopped building nuclear around the timer just after through my island but I think there's a lot of inertia in the system. We really start seeing going from a couple hundred megawatt plants all the way up to 500 to 600 to 700 to 800 to a gigawatt plus throughout the 60s and early 70s. This is really important for areas like New England and even New York State that don't have coal or oil or natural gas resources at least conventionally. It peaked in 1973 when we had the peak number of orders for new nuclear power plants placed in the United States in the single year they placed over 100 orders for reactors just in 73 and 73