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Rich-Juice2517 t1_iv7e011 wrote

Reply to comment by Rocketgirl8097 in New dwellings in Washington state must be warmed by heat pumps, rather than furnaces, beginning in July, state board rules Friday by BarnabyWoods

There was going to be nuclear but they killed the satsop plant by Elma

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[deleted] t1_iv7fcjs wrote

wasn't that killed by the investors for the simple reason of "it isn't going to be profitable enough"?

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Rich-Juice2517 t1_iv7fpm5 wrote

Basically. Only the second one was turned on. Now it's an overstock call center and business park. You can do photoshoots there though

Edit yeah. 1983 it was drowning in debt and it was too expensive to tear it down

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Lost_Conversation546 t1_iv7qq19 wrote

The company couldn’t afford to finish them, they were never functional. The cooling towers are the only finished part, they never finished construction on the actual power plant.

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Rich-Juice2517 t1_iv7qu8u wrote

Ah i had read wnp-2 was functional

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Lost_Conversation546 t1_iv99btx wrote

I grew up in grays harbor, my grandpa actually was a laborer on one of them before they stopped construction in the early 80s. I don’t think you can walk into the cooling towers anymore I think they put a fence up, but I loved doing that as a kid.

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RainCityRogue t1_iv86y2k wrote

There are plans for a nuclear plant to come online at Hanford in the next decadd

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burneracct664453 t1_ivb2tei wrote

It was the result of one of the largest bond defaults in history, and we are all as ratepayers still servicing that debt. A boondoggle of epic proportions and basically a theft from all of us in the region-

https://www.historylink.org/File/5482

We have better ways to generate power than massive nuc projects, renewables are far cheaper and the storage issue can be solved on the same scale without the waste.

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