I see that plant went into operation in 1987. I'll bet it had some impact at the time, depending on existing prior sources. The only reason for rates to go up would be greedy utilities trying to recover their costs quicker. All the FUD following Three Mile Island didn't help much either.


>We have the Sharon Harris Nuclear Power Plant here and it didn't seem to have any impact on the cost of electricity in the area. Just a lot of fear and emergency evacuation routes....
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>When I was stationed in Schweinfurt, FRG I gazed on the nuclear power plant daily. Made an interesting skyline...
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