The $6 billion NY nuclear power plant, built but never used

[BigVMan23]

I just find stories like this fascinating, and I have always been somewhat fascinated with large, abandoned buildings. The power plant located on Long Island in NY was built at a cost of $6 billion dollars between 1973-84. That's probably what, about $10 billon in todays dollars?:idunno:

 

Anyway, because of anti-nuclear activists/protests and eventually 74% of the LI population not wanting the plant, in conjunction with a little "interference" from them Gov. Mario Cuomo, the plant went "active" in 1986 and never got past the 5% testing phase. It was shut down in 1989. Guys, it was never used!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Nuclear_Power_Plant

 

And, on top of all that...guess who paid for the plant? That's right, the tax payers of Long Island paid the builders of the plant most of that $6 billon in the form of a tax on their electric bill in a deal that the NY state government made.

 

The place still stand (minus the fuel rods and turbines) and is available for a movie location. lots of pictures on this link.

 

Scouting Long Island?s Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant | Scouting NY

[AHSPanther23]

$6,000,000,000.00 in 1973 had the same buying power as $33,149,929,411.76 in 2015. Annual inflation over this period was 4.15%. DollarTimes.com | Inflation Calculator

[tcjkbt]

It needs to be dismantled like the City of Louisville is going to do to the (nondescript) old Louisville Water Company building and either stored somewhere or sold to Latvia.

[LIPTON BASH]

This is insane.

[Lawnboy13]

Very cool!

[plantmanky]

Very cool!

 

Is this where you sent my printer parts?

[Lawnboy13]

Is this where you sent my printer parts?

 

:sneaky:

[HammerTime]

Stuff like this is really incredible to me. The planning and execution that goes into building something like that is awesome.