Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

[Warpy]

9. Who knew nuclear power plants were so complicated?

I remember the "peaceful atom" commercials in the 50s, electricity so cheap you won't even have a meter!

Unfortunately, containing radiation and preventing the fuel from eating through the containment and contaminating groundwater were big deals, as were materials fatigue from constant radiation exposure. That dream of set it and forget it power plants that would quietly generate electricity in the background that they sold everybody was a boondoggle of epic proportions. Westinghouse just didn't know when to quit.