While I am still on medical leave, my two coworkers are holding down the fort, spearheading this timely hearing covering three of the five companies that have had their reactors go critical in the last couple of months!
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While I am still on medical leave, my two coworkers are holding down the fort, spearheading this timely hearing covering three of the five companies that have had their reactors go critical in the last couple of months!
You sure do have a problem.
A 2025 Nature cost analysis put Vogtle Units 3 and 4 at $15 per watt in inflation-adjusted overnight construction cost and found that China had halved, then stabilized, its nuclear building costs over roughly two decades. That contrast still holds, but it describes construction performance—not the complete financed cost of a plant or the price of its electricity.
The most important change since that analysis is the widening deployment gap. As of May 2026, China had 60 operating reactors with 58.7 gigawatts of capacity and 36 more under construction across 19 sites, accounting for more than 49% of reactors being built worldwide, according to the latest US Energy Information Administration fleet data.
https://quasa.io/media/nuclear-power-in-the-us-keeps-getting-more-expensive-while-china-s-costs-have-halved
The post industrial economy is primarily powered by electricity...not fossil fuels.
China won the trade war and the competition to build electricity generation capacity needed to power the post industrial economy.
Drill Baby Drill is the desperate cry of an empire in decline and denial.