2006-08-07 09:15:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
None. There haven't been any new ones built in many years.
2006-08-07 09:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently none, there are several capable of building new ones.
Reason none have been built is more poliitcal & fanatic blocking than facts nowadays. Fact is current nuclear plants would be safer than many of the alternative plants..
And with oil becoming too expensive, nuclear options are now being re-explored.
Its true some are being gradually taken out, but at the same rate as non-nuke plants too.
Fact is much of the original reasons to not build nuke plants have been invalid for years.
2006-08-07 16:30:09 · answer #2 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Commercial nuclear power plants have not been constructed in the U.S. since the 1970's, after the Three Mile Island incident. However, Westinghouse, General Electric, and Bettis all construct reactors for use in propulsion plants in United States Navy aircraft carriers and submarines.
2006-08-07 16:22:53 · answer #3 · answered by Harry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, no one is building new plants in the U.S. currently.
Nuclear power is cleaner and safer than fossil fuels. The reason "some" reactors (not entire plants) are going offline is that they've reached their full potential and need decommissioning. Initially, the life expectancy of a reactor was 20 years.
2006-08-07 16:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a shame how the people who answered you are clue-less to the facts.
anyway.....
depending on the state......usualy they are built by the utillities companies with their funds and also with government funding
nuclear power plants are for fueling energy to local areas...not nuclear weapons as some people think( if the read a news paper or paid attention in class they would know this
on the east coast there is one in salem nj
2006-08-07 16:24:14 · answer #5 · answered by swddrb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. No nuclear plant has been built in the US in many, many years, and the existing ones are gradually being taken off line.
2006-08-07 16:18:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Electric
Westinghouse
2006-08-07 16:18:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fluor, Bechtel, Jacobs Engineering
2006-08-07 16:19:18 · answer #8 · answered by bamski 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankee or Entergy built some of them. There's one in VT.
But the actual contractor's name I don't know.
2006-08-07 16:19:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil ones.
2006-08-07 16:18:45 · answer #10 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋