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Tim Echols

Tim Echols

Vice Chair, Georgia Public Service Commission

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I need a federal financial backstop that would cover 90 percent of the cost overruns over a contracted price to build another reactor. We have not reached a point in the U.S. where these first-of-a-kind projects can be built with any assurance that they will be on time and on budget.

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America's unbuilt reactors

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Advocate for federal financial backstops

The United States has cancelled more nuclear reactors than any other country has ever built. Of 253 reactors ordered between 1953 and 2008, only 27% are still operatingโ€”48% were cancelled outright, 11% shut down early. The last reactor ordered before a 34-year gap was in 1978, one year before Three Mile Island.

Updated Jan 30