1 B1_ The billion-dollar boondoggle: how Vogtle became the US’s monument to nuclear folly

1 B1_ The billion-dollar boondoggle: how Vogtle became the US’s monument to nuclear folly

by Paul Hockenos, 29 Apr 2026, https://energytransition.org/2026/04/the-billion-dollar-boondoggle-how-vogtle-became-the-uss-monument-to-nuclear-folly/#more-30303 In the quiet scrubland of Waynesboro, Georgia, two enormous concrete domes rise from the landscape. Vogtle Units 3 and 4, the first new nuclear reactors built in the US in more than 30 years, were once touted as the rebirth of US American nuclear ambition. Instead, they have become a mo…