Melting Down

摘要

THE U.S. NUCLEAR-POWER INDUSTRY just can't seem to catch a break lately. While the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Unit 2 plant made history last October as the first new U.S. nuclear generating station to come online in 20 years, four other reactors under construction in Georgia and South Carolina remain behind schedule and over budget, and a fifth planned unit was canceled by its util-ity in March. On top of all that, the developer of all five projects, Westinghouse, filed for bankruptcy in late March.