Quote Originally Posted by Gregg View Post
From wiki:
Except for the Watts Bar 2 its been 20 years since our last reactor came online and the vast majority of the US nuclear plants were built between the late 1960s and the early/mid 1980s. Thirty to as much as 50 years ago.
While it is true that the US has been very risk averse to nuclear power since Three Mile Island, the rest of the world hasn't shared our concern. With 60 reactors currently under construction around the world there're ample modern engineering examples available for study.