Image: Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power plant. Photo by Bouarf (CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikipedia)
Armenia was supposed to have a new nuclear power plant this year that would replace one that National Geographic suggested a few years ago was the most dangerous in the world.
The new plant was to have twice the electrical-generating capacity of the current one, allowing Armenia not only to meet its own power needs but to export electricity to neighboring counties.
We’re well in to 2016, and not only is the new plant not operational — work on it hasn’t even begun.
The problem is the $5-billion cost, a staggering …read more
Source: The Huffington Post