Why the Summer Nuclear Plant New Build Failed: The Republicans Defanged The NRC

In the set up for the Nuclear Renaissance, the republicans severely limited what the NRC could inspection. The project was sickening chaotic for many years and the NRC wouldn't shutdown the project. It would have been in the national interest for the NRC to keep this project coherent. It is the exact problems we had in the 1970s and 1980s.

If the NRC would have yanked or put a stop work order on half the new build in the 1970s and 1980s, drastically slowed the new build, we would have had a much brighter nuclear industry today.    

Santee Cooper secretly griped for years about SCANA's 'ineptitude' in failed S.C. nuclear project

By Andrew Brown and Thad Moore abrown@postandcourier.com tmoore@postandcourier.com

Apr 8, 2018

COLUMBIA — Santee Cooper executives secretly fretted for years that its partner SCANA was incapable of overseeing the construction of two nuclear reactors in South Carolina but continued to forward payment after payment for the now-abandoned project, according to internal records obtained by The Post and Courier​.

The state-run utility’s small nuclear team called the leaders of SCANA "naive" and lamented their inexperience with big construction contracts. 

They questioned whether SCANA officials were "too nice" to be leading such a huge undertaking — one of the country's first nuclear construction projects in decades…