sethnintendo on 28 November 2012
| mrstickball said: 1. Is the econoboost engine going to be as efficient as the European one? 2. SpaceX has to prove their Dragon capsule is vastly safer than any current design in use. That is despite how woefully dangerous the Space Shuttle program was. 3. Nuclear power plants have been built since the 70s and 80s... Just not in America. |
"There has been no new ground-breaking on nuclear plants in the United States since 1974, though a number of reactor units started before 1974 have been completed since then, and recently (2011 and 2012) construction has begun on new units at existing plants."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_States
They started adding on to existing plants though recently.
