When the lights went out in Georgia......

Ahhh Burk County Georgia is going to get nuclear reactors.  I guess we need them and if it weren't for the nuclear waste and other problems they have it would be a good thing.  There is certainly not a heck of a lot going on there anyway.

Burk County is just across the Savannah River from the Savannah River Site - part of the DOE complex that made bombs during the cold war and enriches unranium and does stuff with plutonium nowdays. It also employs a lot of people cleaning up its mess.

True stories abound, in spite of the secrecy.  Like the DOE having to cement over an entire parking lot full of cars that were flooded by an inadvertent leak of contaminated water.....or the engineer who left the Plant to fly to Oak Ridge and when he entered one of the buildings there set off all the alarms...seems he tracked plutonium all the way...Delta lost a plane as a result...but the funny story that the plant guys tell is that he just "walked out of SRP and didn't set off any alarms".  Oh then there is M-area...about 140 acres of some of the most contaminated land on the planet.  The ground is laced with volatile organic compounds (think dry cleaning fluid) to a depth of about 200 feet...and I mean laced. ... It was about 3% of mass so for every 100 pounds of dirt there is just short of half a gallon of pure toxin. (5 parts per billion is the legal limit). 

Anyway, I'm happly that Georgia will get a reactor or two or three and that an area with the population density of Antartica will have all the power in the world at its disposal. You can run bug lights all night long from now til doomsday.